ALERTS Group

🎄Wishing everyone a peaceful end to the year from the team at The Alerts and all the best for 2025.

📣Introducing our Road to Recovery Workshops   Join us for our in-person workshops where we meet with others in recovery and discuss gambling harms in a safe, confidential and supportive space. We'll explore triggers and managing urges, social pressure, building a support network and more. The sessions take place at our London office on Thursday evenings on an ongoing basis. You're very welcome to join us whether it's for one workshop on a particular topic, or all five workshops. To register, email london@gamcare.org.uk or call 020 7801 7008.

⏰️Today is the closing date for our core member role vacancies. Details below ⤵️

Good morning all. A share amongst your networks would be really appreciated on this ⤵️

#LLE ASSEMBLE. Following on from another successful GambleAware conference we would like to take time out to celebrate the continued recognition of #LivedandLivingExperience as having a necessary and central role in helping drive actions and ambitions around addressing and reducing #GamblingHarms in the UK (and for that matter, the whole World). We are now in the previously unimaginable situation that it is now practically impossible for any senior leader or stakeholder to give a speech about addressing #HarmfulGambling and NOT acknowledge continuing collaboration with, and input from #LivedExperience. That events such as yesterday's annual conference have representatives of Lived Experience led organisations such as #GLEN, ALERTS Group, Betknowmore UK, and Reframe Coaching participating in, and even facilitating (as with our own David Quinti in the attached pic) on an equal status with government (and shadow) ministers, CEO's of major charities, Public Health and NHS leaders, and senior representatives of Regulatory bodies, is true testimony to the impact that those who champion experiential understanding and involvement have managed to achieve in a relatively short period of time. It felt so appropriate that Owen Baily was there to witness the evolving changes which he was so much a formative part of instigating, those many years ago. But words alone "butter no parsnips" 🎄 We will hold every one of those lofty speakers to their fine words, and will readily call them out if we feel that their actions do not support those same words. #LLE is here. #Ready, #willing, and #able to play our part in ensuring that what happens in the coming period of change rightly puts the wellbeing of our community, and therefore of every community, at the forefront of future policy AND actions. In otherwise uncertain times it brings great comfort to know that people like us, with shared values and goals, are out there and acting on behalf of others. #together we will make that difference. [Self-effacing] Hero's one and all. We salute you.

🚨 Do you have lived experience of gambling harm? We're looking for new members to join our team! Closing dates for applications are on the 16th of December, with interviews taking place on the 19th/20th. Please contact Andy for a job pack at: andy@alertsgroup.onmicrosoft.com

🗣"What does good support look like for you?" We are asking this question to clients as part of our follow-up process upon completing our survey. Here is what we have been told, which will be added to weekly ⤵️ Thank you for sharing 🙏 https://lnkd.in/eB8uqN-7 #gamblingharm

A great day spent at the Mental Health & Gambling course facilitated by the collaboration between Southdown & Breakeven Gambling Counselling. It was powerful to see in real time, the effect that these courses and the work that Breakeven do first hand. Brilliantly facilitated by Neil Kerr As a member of the ALERTS Group it is always an honour to be invited to these events. If you have received treatment from Breakeven, or accessed support from any member of the National Gambling Support Network (NGSN), you can have your say by completing our survey, you have the opportunity to shape and effect change in how and what services are delivered. Your voice really does matter. Just click the link below to help us understand more, and ensure that the next person receives the support they need. https://lnkd.in/gpYrj4Ve

We’re Hiring: Lived Experience Recovery Coach & Facilitator 📣 EPIC Restart Foundation is expanding, and we’re looking for a passionate and motivated individual to join our team as a Lived Experience Recovery Coach & Facilitator. In this role, you’ll use your own lived experience of gambling harm to inspire and empower others on their recovery journey. You’ll also raise awareness and help break the stigma surrounding gambling addiction through workshops, coaching, and events. Role Details: Full-time or part-time (minimum 20 hours/week) Remote working with attendance at events (expenses covered) £30,000–£32,000 per annum (pro rata for part-time) Two-year fixed-term contract If you’re passionate about making a difference, excited to transform lives, and have at least 18 months of stable recovery, we’d love to hear from you. Apply by 6th December, 12 noon to be part of a life-changing team. Learn more and apply via the link in the comments! #WeAreHiring #RecoveryCoach #GamblingHarmSupport #MakeAnImpact