YGAM | Young Gamblers Education Trust

YGAM delivers its social purpose and derives social benefit for the UK through the delivery of the following three YGAM products:

Train the Trainer workshops
YGAM delivers accredited training to teachers, youth workers, community mental health colleagues, prison & probation colleagues and community volunteers, enabling them to deliver the YGAM gambling-related harm-prevention programme. This YGAM programme and its resources have been accredited by Ofqual provider, ASDAN; quality-assured by the PSHE Association and YGAM has secured the prestigious Pearson Assured quality mark.

Peer Education projects
YGAM works in partnership with universities to train year two & three students to become YGAM peer mentors. Trained peer mentors are then employed part-time to deliver a range of gambling-related harm prevention programmes and awareness campaigns within their universities and local communities.

Research
Through the delivery of the above two products, a programme of research into the attitudes, thinking and behaviours of young people and gambling / social gaming will be created to establish a global research network, specifically targeting teenagers and young adults. Additionally, YGAM will work with our research partners to undertake both qualitative and quantitative research into the effectiveness and impact of the YGAM products.

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Enhance Understanding

YGAM aims to enhance the UK’s understanding of gambling and gambling-related harm, specifically amongst young people.

Help Young People

YGAM helps young people make informed choices through better understanding of gambling and its potential risks.

Increase Awareness

YGAM increases awareness of youth gambling as a public health issue with policy-makers, educators and key influencers.

YGAM CELEBRATES COMMITMENT TO REAL LIVING WAGE

YGAM is happy to announce our accreditation as a Living Wage Employer. Our Living Wage commitment will see everyone working at YGAM receive a minimum hourly wage of £9.00 in the UK or £10.55 in London.

YGAM appoints a new independent Chair

YGAM are delighted to announce the appointment of Mike Wojcik as its new independent Chair. Mike has a distinguished career in Higher Education.

YGAM ramps-up Board structure with specialist-skilled Trustees

YGAM is continuously evolving the model for its Board structure to be fit-for-purpose as a contemporary and agile charity responding to young adults’ education needs around safer gambling and gaming.

Operators supporting the YGAM Social Purpose

Following GambleAware’s lead and to be transparent of the context of the current voluntary funding arrangements, YGAM has also chosen to seek permission from the Gambling Commission and licensed operators who support YGAM

Responsible Marketing for Gambling Operators

We asked Will Ridley, Chair of YGAM’s Young People & Student Advisory Group about his thoughts around Responsible Marketing in the run up to the KnowNow’s Conference in October.