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Gambling Lived Experience Network

RegisteredRegistered charity number 1200347KingtonDisability
Income£126k2025-03-31
Spending£111ksame year
Spent / received60%3-year average
Size in its cause69th pctDisability
Registered2022CIO
Employees–latest return

Analysis

Gambling Lived Experience Network is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Kington. It was registered in September 2022, 4 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training and disability, which this site groups under disability. Legally it is a charitable incorporated organisation (CIO). It says it makes grants to individuals, makes grants to organisations and provides advocacy/advice/information.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Gambling Lived Experience Network reported income of £126k and spending of £111k, spending 88% of its income. Across the 3 years on record, from March 2023 to March 2025, income grew from £89k to £126k (+41%), an average of +19% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2024, when income rose by 34%. Over the whole period it spent 60% of the income it received.

Among 12,871 England and Wales charities whose main cause is disability and that reported income, Gambling Lived Experience Network sits at the 69th percentile: it is larger than about 69% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 74th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Usher Kids UK (£126k), The Autscape Organisation (£126k) and Lancashire First CIO (£126k).

Income and spending

£0£31k£63k£94k£126k2023 Income: £89,4502023 Spending: £2,88120232024 Income: £119,6002024 Spending: £87,56320242025 Income: £125,8582025 Spending: £111,2762025
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Where the income comes from

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In the charity's own words

GLEN is a GB wide charity working for the relief of those in need directly or indirectly as a result of an addiction to or a misuse of gambling including (but not exclusively) by providing peer support services and the advancement of education by raising public awareness on the nature and issues surrounding gambling, Gambling Related Harms and the misuse of gambling.

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