About the fellowship
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Gamblers Anonymous, or GA, is a free, anonymous fellowship of people who help each other stop gambling and stay stopped, one day at a time. Members share their experience and follow a twelve-step programme, with meetings across the UK in person and online.
There are no fees and no referrals. The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop gambling.
GA is for anyone who thinks their gambling has become a problem, whatever the form, from sports betting and casinos to online slots, scratchcards, or trading that has stopped being fun. It does not matter how much you have lost or how long it has gone on, and you do not have to have stopped before you come.
Many people arrive feeling ashamed or alone with it. GA is a room of people who understand, where what is said stays in the room and a first name is all anyone uses.
GA publishes Twenty Questions that people use to reflect on their own gambling. Most members found they answered yes to at least seven of them. They are there for your own reflection, in your own time, not for anyone to label you.
Gam-Anon is the companion fellowship for the family and friends affected by someone else's gambling, in the way Al-Anon supports those affected by drinking. If gambling is hurting your family, Gam-Anon and our families and friends section can both help.
Gamblers Anonymous began in Los Angeles in 1957, founded by people who adapted the twelve steps to gambling. It reached the UK in 1964 and now meets in towns and cities across the country in person, online, and as hybrids.