Scottish Reducing Gambling Harms 2025 roundup
- Area of Work: The ALLIANCE
- Type: News Item
- Published: 16th January 2026
The programme continues to be a critical strategic partner in gambling harms prevention work across Scotland.
The SRGH programme continues to be a critical strategic partner in gambling harm prevention work across Scotland, bolstered not only by expanding the team in 2025, but also by its involvement in a key Scottish Government project around gambling harm and suicide prevention amongst marginalised communities.
The programme champions lived experience, with members of the Lived Experience Forum helping to identify opportunities to influence policy and practice around reducing gambling harms. We continue to facilitate connection across organisations in Scotland, engaging on the topic of gambling harms, and helping others to embed learning into their own work. The findings from a previous roundtable on mental health and gambling harm continue to inform the work of the Mental Health Directorate, and formed the basis of our relationship with them, which has contributed to the development of their new project exploring suicide prevention and gambling harm and our monitoring and evaluation duties for each project that submitted successful bids, funded through the new statutory levy implemented in 2025.
This year, the programme recruited two new development officers to increase capacity and scope of ongoing research and collaboration into tackling gambling harms. SRGH has also been working to develop new proposals for the Scottish Government, which propose new actions that could be taken forward to extend the work of the programme, and further embed – and amplify – the voices of people with lived experience into policy and systems development.
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