Gambling Recovery for All CIC.
Creating accessible, evidence-informed support for people whose lives are being affected by gambling.
Gambling Recovery for All CIC develops and delivers funded support for people struggling with gambling and for partners and families living with its wider impact.
Founded by Lorraine Perrons and Claire Jones, our work combines therapeutic expertise, lived experience and extensive NHS leadership experience with structured programmes designed around what people tell us they actually need.
CIC no. 15981485.
Rooted in lived experience, committed to inclusion.
Support should not depend on whether someone can afford private therapy or whether their experience fits neatly into an existing service.
Gambling can affect far more than the person placing the bet. Its impact can spread through finances, relationships, emotional wellbeing, family life and the way people feel about themselves.
Gambling Recovery for All CIC exists to help close gaps in support through funded, accessible programmes shaped by therapeutic practice, lived experience and ongoing learning from the people taking part. Gambling harm rarely exists in isolation. It's often interconnected with trauma, mental health challenges, financial strain, relationship breakdown, and inter-generational patterns of coping and survival.
Built for the people most often missed.
- Individuals experiencing harm from their own gambling
- Partners, parents, family members and others affected by someone else’s gambling
- Under-served and marginalised communities
- BAME communities, LGBTQIA+ individuals, veterans, women, older adults
- Neuro-divergent individuals, and those facing complex life challenges
- Individuals unable to access private therapy
- People experiencing isolation, secrecy or barriers to statutory support
Four principles, held throughout the work.
Trauma informed
We understand that gambling harm and the patterns underneath it are usually responses to deeper distress. The work is paced and shaped accordingly.
Lived experience informed
Our therapists have been affected by someone else’s gambling themselves. That shapes the way every programme is written, the language we use, and the pace we work at.
Compassion led
We don't define people by the worst of what they're carrying. Compassion is the doorway, the method, and the standard we hold ourselves to.
Evidence aware
We use established therapeutic methods, and we also draw on what our own experience has taught us. The two work together.
Rising Above the Gambling Storm.
Our current funded project includes Rebuild & Rise: Reclaim Your Life, a structured 12-week programme for women living with the impact of someone else’s gambling. The programme combines therapist-led live sessions, practical tools, guided learning, reflection, peer connection and ongoing support.
But delivery is only part of the work. We are also measuring what changes.
Participants complete recognised and bespoke outcome measures at key stages of the programme, alongside structured reflections that help us understand not only whether change is happening, but how women experience that change in everyday life.
Our early learning has included themes around:
- improved calm and emotional regulation
- greater self-understanding and self-compassion
- changes in sleep and wellbeing
- increased confidence and personal agency
- clearer understanding of what is and is not within their control
- reduced isolation
- reconnecting with personal identity and worth
This learning will continue to inform future programme development, partnership working and wider conversations about what effective support for families affected by gambling can look like.
This project was funded by a Community Investment Programme grant awarded by Greo Evidence Insights through the Network to Reduce Gambling Harms, which is funded through regulatory settlement funds awarded to Greo for socially responsible purposes.
Operationally separate, structurally accountable.
Gambling Recovery for All CIC works alongside Gambling Recovery Therapy Limited, while remaining operationally separate. The CIC exists solely for public benefit.
All grant funding, donations, and commissioned income received by the CIC is ring-fenced and used exclusively to deliver community interest activities in line with our asset lock. We bring extensive professional experience from NHS roles, together with specialist training and lived experience as people affected by someone else’s gambling, meaning our work is informed by strong safeguarding standards, ethical practice, and a compassionate understanding of the challenges people face.
Fund, Commission or Partner With Us.
We want the learning from this work to reach further than a single programme. Gambling Recovery for All CIC welcomes conversations with funders, commissioners, investors, researchers, healthcare organisations and responsible partners interested in improving the support available to people and families affected by gambling.
We are particularly interested in conversations around funding future programme delivery, commissioning structured support, evaluation and research partnerships, referral pathways, reaching communities that may face barriers to existing provision, developing and testing new approaches, and scaling programmes where the evidence supports doing so.