The Betting and Gaming Council (BGC) has defended its relationship with GambleAware by restating that its members have ‘no say’ on how research, education and treatment (RET) projects/initiatives are funded.
On Saturday, the trade body published a Twitter thread denying The Guardian’s report that it wanted to redirect “a quarter of funds” donated to GambleAware to “projects chosen by bet365, Flutter Entertainment, GVC Holdings and William Hill.”
The report repeated concerns related to the independence of GambleAware as the main commissioning charity for RET projects and how it will choose to distribute the £100m ‘funding commitment’ guaranteed by UK gambling’s ‘Big-4’ operators by 2024.
