Victorian Responsible Gambling Foundation, Victoria, Australia

About us
The Victorian Responsible Gambling Foundation is a statutory authority created by the Victorian Parliament to address the challenge of gambling harm in the Victorian community.
We work with partners and communities to inform people about the risks of gambling, and to provide support to those who need it, including people affected by someone else’s gambling.
Reducing harm
We fund and work closely with organisations across Victoria to provide free and confidential Gambler’s Help services to people experiencing harm from their own or someone else’s gambling.
We take a public health approach to our work, which means we focus on prevention, early intervention and support for those who are particularly vulnerable to gambling harm as well as those living in regional and rural communities.
For professionals
Our professional development centre offers learning and development opportunities for Gambler's Help staff and professionals in related sectors. We provide information and resources to help health and welfare professionals identify people experiencing harm from their own, or a significant other's, gambling and more effectively respond to their needs.
Research
The main aim of our research program is to build our understanding of gambling harm. Each year the Foundation identifies new areas of gambling to research and in addition to awarding research grants, we commission major research projects so that we can learn more about how gambling affects our community.
Resources
We provide information to community groups, local government and the public about gambling and its regulation in Victoria.
We also support Victorians to participate in regulatory and other processes relating to gambling, including licensing and planning processes associated with electronic gaming machines.

The Victorian Responsible Gambling Foundation is here to support people affected by gambling harm, including family and friends. We take a public health approach to our work, which means we focus on prevention, early intervention and support for those who are particularly vulnerable to gambling harm as well as those living in regional and rural communities.

We fund and work closely with organisations across Victoria to provide free and confidential Gambler’s Help services to people experiencing harm from their own or someone else’s gambling.

Find out more about what we do

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Victorians lose $1.58 billion on pokies in July - December 2022 — 30 Jan 2023
Australian Racing Fact Book 2021–2022 edition published — 11 Jan 2023
Commission approves additional 15 pokies at McKinnon Hotel — 14 Dec 2022
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10 years of addressing gambling harm — 7 Dec 2022

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'Call someone who gets it' is our awareness campaign to encourage people to speak to a counsellor who gets gambling harm. Counselling can help people change the way they think and feel about themselves and their gambling.

Campaign

During Gambling Harm Awareness Week, we highlighted how the brain is stimulated and affected by gambling.

Because the more you understand, the easier it is to change.

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Gambling in Victoria

1 in 5

Victorians who gamble may be experiencing harm from their gambling.

$7 b

The total cost of gambling to the Victorian community in 2014–2015 was $7 billion.

73%

of Victorians think adolescents are exposed to too much gambling advertising.

Participants in the Horn of Africa Communities Network workshops with network managing director Terefe Aborete

The Foundation supports a range of community-based, not-for-profit, local government bodies and public health organisations to deliver innovative place-based projects in diverse communities across Victoria to prevent and reduce gambling harm.

Read more about our currently funded community-led prevention projects.

Young players from Ivanhoe Junior Football Club at the launch of the 'Love the game, not the odds' campaign

Gambling advertising is changing the way we see sport. The amount of advertising we are being exposed to on a daily basis makes it seem like gambling is a normal part of sport. Our Love the Game Program aims to counter the normalisation of gambling in sport.

Read more information for parents, schools and sporting clubs.

Our professional development centre offers learning and development opportunities for Gambler's Help staff and health professionals.

Read more about training for professionals.

Stack of books and magnifier on wooden table with bookshelf in the background

Search for published research papers that have been commissioned by the Foundation from our library of more than 40 research reports.

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Supporting Victorians affected by gambling

News and media releases

'Call someone who gets it' TV commercial

Gambling Harm Awareness Week

Gambling in Victoria

Community-led prevention projects

Love the Game, Not the Odds

Events and training

Our research

Gambling in Victoria