OSCR Scottish charity profile

BetBlocker

ActiveCharity number SC049565
Registered23 August 2019
Main locationMidlothian
Legal formSCIO (Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation)

01 Identity

Scottish charity record

Snapshot 25 August 2026
OSCR charity number
SC049565
Status
Active
Regulatory type
Standard
Designated religious body
No
Geographical spread
UK and overseas
Volunteers
0 volunteers
Staff
2
Postcode
EH54 0GF

02 Purpose and work

What the charity exists to do

BetBlocker has been established to provide a free app that will help users manage their access to online gambling services. We provide both a crisis management tool, allowing users to set a complete block for their chosen period, or a harm minimisation setting, allowing users to set in advance when they would like to restrict their access. The app is available in 18 different languages and we support over 30k people every day in 186 different countries.

Charitable purposes

  • the prevention or relief of poverty
  • the relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage

Beneficiaries

  • Other defined groups

Activities

  • It carries out activities or services itself

Constitutional objectives

(a) the prevention or relief of poverty, (n) the relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage, BetBlocker is being established to distribute the web application of the same name. This web application enables users to restrict their device from accessing online gambling sites. BetBlocker is intended to help address the growing social issue of gambling addiction by providing a physical limitation on the user's ability to access gambling services. The application will be provide free of charge to users in all geographic locations, will not include any form of advertising and will not gather user data for any purposes beyond improving the tool and assisting users with technical issues. A secondary function of the tool will allow users to place 'Parental Controls' on a device to allow parents to restrict access to age sensitive material (gambling, pornography, 'freemium' apps and social media) on devices used by their juvenile dependants. This function is intended to provide concerned parents with greater control over the material that their children can access. In this manner we would seek to provide relief from the disadvantage of gambling addiction and mitigate the poverty that can be resultant.

03 Annual returns

Income and expenditure history

5 periods
Year endIncomeExpenditureStaffReturn received
31 August 2025£350,239£354,855220 April 2026
30 April 2024£443,252£112,256230 January 2025
30 April 2023£75,429£68,230230 January 2024
30 April 2022£40,793£63,684230 January 2023
30 April 2021£124,225£82,206228 January 2022

Figures are those reported by the charity and supplied in the OSCR bulk download. Blank facts remain distinct from zero.

04 Contact record

Principal office or trustees address

Address supplied to OSCR
BetBlocker.org, PO Box 2089, Livingston
Website supplied to OSCR
https://betblocker.org/
Parent charity
Not supplied

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05 Provenance

Source for this profile

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