About us
It all started in 2007.
Dan had gambled since he was 16, before becoming a Christian. Even when he followed Jesus, he didn’t see a problem with this habit. But, over the course of just a year, he spiralled into a gambling addiction. This photo shows him in the middle of that terrible period, aged 27.
This gambling addiction nearly cost him his wife, home, and everything that mattered.
He sought help.
But there wasn’t any support for Christians who gamble. Through the grace of God and prayer, Dan stopped gambling.
He wondered: what if there was somewhere that understood grace, and didn’t just focus on the problem but focused on hope for the future?
So in 2015 he founded Better Futures for Gamblers.
Our passion is to see gamblers be redeemed by God, and for the Church to take a stand for holiness in this arena.
We are a registered Social Enterprise and we draw on lived experience of addiction and our faith.
Meet the team
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CEO & RECOVERY COACH
Dan has many years experience of working in drug and alcohol addiction, starting as a care assistant in a residential rehab, then having a number of managerial and trustee roles, to this day.
He founded Better Futures for Gamblers based on his own experience of gambling addiction.
Dan loves spending time with his children, his dogs, gardening and watching football live and on TV.
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PROGRAMME MANAGER & RECOVERY COACH
Amy has worked in the public sector in such organisations as the Metropolitan Police, London Fire Brigade, and Princes Trust. Her work was mainly on programmes working with identified target groups of "at risk" individuals.
More recently she founded a supermarket in Brighton with the aim of putting happiness before profit.
Amy loves her dog Kenny, who is small enough to carry anywhere!
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DIRECTOR & RECOVERY COACH
Dave has personal experience of addiction in several forms, and has been working with a number of individuals over the years with their gambling addictions.
He spent many years working at managerial level in the Civil Service, and now works in his semi-retirement for the NHS as a courier driver.
He is a lifelong fan of rugby union and in particular Leicester Tigers.
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We are the Christian Social Enterprise for gambling addiction in the UK, and we exist to equip the Church to beat gambling for good. We support churches through:
Empowering church leaders through free resources on our website
Helping churches surface hidden problem in their congregations through our free survey based on the internationally recognised Problem Gambling Severity Index
The Grace over Gambling programme, which provides rigorous recovery coaching based on materials written by people with lived experience.
We were founded in 2015 and we decided from the start never to take money from the gambling industry, unlike almost every other gambling recovery organisation. We felt it was important to protect our independence, and that it would be “blood money”. You can see our publicly-available accounts here.