Big Step, a charity with the goal of reducing the gambling problem, signed a partnership with Swansea City football club to help raise awareness of the risks associated with excessive gambling.
The project is focused on football and, part of the charity Gambling with Lives, will work with the English second division club to help provide community-based training, awareness and signaling projects to reduce the damage from the game.
Recovering game addict and Swansea fan Nick Phillips will present the 18-month prevention program. The project conceived by Big Step was formed by people with experience of damage related to gambling addiction.
And in September, members of the charity took part in a 130-mile hike, calling for an end to the advertising of sports betting and games in football.
The senior manager of the Gambling with Lives program and the founder of Big Step, James Grimes, said: “As a recovering gambling addict, I am passionate about preventing young people from going through the same thing as me.”
Grimes added: “This partnership will show how football can be a positive social vehicle in preventing and reducing damage from gambling in your community through our education, awareness and signaling work”.
Swansea East MP Carolyn Harris added: “This program will play a critical role in ensuring that young people are informed of the real risks of gambling and their addiction.”
About Swansea City
The Swansea City Association Football Club is an English nationalized Welsh football team based in Swansea.
Nowadays, the club is competing in the EFL Championship, a championship corresponding to the second division of English football with command of the games at Liberty Stadium.
