Gambling Harm and Mental Health Fund - Information Session

This Information Session is hosted by the Scotland Reducing Gambling Harm Programme to discuss The Gambling Harm and Mental Health Fund. In this hour we will:

• Discuss the origins of this fund

• Outline core criteria and grant priorities

• Provide clarifying information on who can apply and discuss conflicts of interest

• Detail key dates for you diary

• Facilitate a Q&A session

Gambling harm is a public health issue that impacts people across Scotland. The purpose of The Gambling Harm and Mental Health Fund, round two, is to deepen understanding of how gambling harm impacts the mental health of people in different disadvantaged, marginalised, and minoritised communities across Scotland, and explain how this harm intersects with other inequalities and contextual factors.

This fund has been secured by The Scottish Government’s Preventing Poor Mental Health and Suicide Unit in the Mental Health and Social Care and National Care Service Directorate from the Statutory Gambling Levy, Scotland. The fund will be administered by the Health and Social Care Alliance Scotland (the ALLIANCE) on behalf of the Scottish Government. The Scotland Reducing Gambling Harm (ScotRGH) team will lead this work and be the main point of contact for potential and successful projects.

This fund exists to support community-based activity to further work on mental health and gambling harms, including a focus on suicide.