The Gambling Harm and Mental Health Fund is now open
- Area of Work: The ALLIANCE
- Type: News Item
- Published: 2nd July 2026
The Gambling Harm and Mental Health fund is open for applicants
People who experience gambling harm are significantly more likely to live with serious mental health concerns and at worst die by suicide. Gambling harm can lead to stress, anxiety, depression, and low self-esteem, which can impact relationships, financial issues, education, and employment.
The Health and Social Care Alliance Scotland (the ALLIANCE) are working with The Scottish Government’s Preventing Poor Mental Health and Suicide Unit in the Mental Health and Social Care and National Care Service Directorate to support community-based activity to advance work on mental health and gambling harms, including a focus on suicide.
As part of this work, the ALLIANCE is pleased to announce a new round of funding through The Gambling Harm and Mental Health Fund which has been secured through the Statutory Gambling Levy.
The main purpose of this, available for third sector organisations, is to understand the impact of gambling harms on specific disadvantaged, marginalised, and minoritised communities and how this intersects with wider social, economic, and environmental factors.
The fund will be administered and led by the ALLIANCE’s Scotland Reducing Gambling Harm (ScotRGH) team, who are the main point of contact for potential and successful projects.
The Gambling Harm and Mental Health Fund is open for applications from Thursday 2 July 2026 at 9AM until Friday 14 August at 5PM
Apply here: smfscotland.grantplatform.com
Q&A sessions with the ScotRGH Team are available, please click on your preferred time to sign up:
Guidance documents are available to download below, along with Word versions of the application forms.
For any queries, please contact gamblingharm@alliance-scotland.org.uk or call 0141 404 0231.
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