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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.

Love the game, not the odds

Our Love the Game program is all about reducing the exposure of young people to sports betting promotion and disrupting the social norm of betting and sport.

Sports betting advertising is everywhere these days. Young people, especially, would find it hard to remember a time watching sport without thinking about the odds. Ads today seem to suggest that you need to have a bet on the game to enjoy it.

When young people see excessive sports betting promotion it can seem like gambling is normal, and that sport is all about the odds, not the game. When something feels normal, it doesn’t seem risky.

We encourage parents and role models (coaches, teachers, relatives) to talk to young people about the risks and consequences of gambling, so they love the game, not the odds.

_{Sport and betting don't have to go together. Click below to learn more:}

Did you know?

75 per cent

kids aged 8–16 years think betting on sport is normal*

3 in 4

8–16 year olds can name one or more sports betting companies*

74 per cent

Victorians think adolescents are exposed to too much gambling advertising**

_{*Based on a recent qualitative study of kids who watched sport aged 8-16 years
**Based on a 2018 community attitudes survey}

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This year, as part of AFL Victoria’s Love the Game round, we’re encouraging you to have ‘the talk’ with the young people in your life to remind them that sport and betting don’t have to go together.

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Our Sporting Club Program aims to reduce young people's exposure to sport betting advertising and to counter the social norm of gambling in sport. Learn more and sign your club up to get involved.

Sporting clubs

Our School Education Program is an initiative that helps students to navigate the new gambling landscape and avoid harm from gambling.

Schools

Love the game, not the odds

Did you know?

Have 'the talk' this weekend

Sporting Club Program

School Education Program

Love the Game partners