Red Card’s Gambling Awareness for Non-League Football – Redditch United, 6th December 2023

Red Card delivered a session to two academy groups for Redditch United FC prior to a match on Wednesday 6th December.

We delivered the workshop to over 30 aspiring footballers, talking to them about the issues surrounding gambling harms.

Thanks to funding for the project, we are able to offer our gambling harm awareness workshops to non-league football clubs with NO CHARGE to the club or players.

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Winchmore School Workshops

Winchmore School
Winchmore School Partnership

We will be delivering our gambling awareness workshops at Winchmore School Enfield from October 2018.

The aim of these workshops is to educate all year groups including 6th form about the potential impact of problem gambling. We are delighted to now be a trusted partner enrolled in the school PSHE lessons to help students understand the dangers and the negative impact of problem gambling.

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Gordon Moody

Gordon Moody
Gordon Moody Gambling Awareness

This week Tony attended the Gordon Moody Gambling Awareness event at the House of Commons. The Gordon Moody Association is a registered charity with over 40 years experience in providing residential support and treatment for people who are severely addicted to gambling. Fellow ex footballer Gary Brooke joined Tony at the event.
Tony with Adele, CEO of Gordon Moody Association.

Tony with Adele, CEO of Gordon Moody Association.

Tony with ex professional footballer Gary Brooke.

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Daily Star on Red Card

Daily Star Interview
David Woods Column

The Daily Star recently published an article by journalist David Woods highlighting Tony’s story. It looks at the work Red Card is doing to address problem gambling. The article also highlighted concerns that the FA and PFA are not taking enough preventative action, by raising awareness of the dangers of problem gambling, and instead are only focusing on those with an existing problem.

You can read the Daily Star article here.

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Raising Awareness

Mind Raising Awareness
Mind Raising Awareness

This week Tony was delighted to be invited as a guest of Mind in Haringey at their lunchtime event. It was hosted by David Dutton at Highgate House, and aimed at raising awareness of mental health issues, and how we can support those who suffer from them. The event was well attended and very well received by all who were there.

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Interview on BBC Local Radio

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Tony’s Interview on BBC Local Radio

On October 2nd Tony Kelly was the guest of Graham Torrington (pictured above) on BBC Midlands late night radio, talking about gambling addiction and the work Red Card are doing.

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Lottery Funding

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National Lottery Funding

We are delighted to announce that we have received a National Lottery grant to support our work in 2017. This follows a lot of work by the team to develop a bid that was accepted by the National Lottery ‘Awards For All Scheme’.

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