The Responsible Gambling Fund has pulled out of its funding agreement with the GREaT Foundation.
The RGF forms part of a tri-partite arrangement established after a 2008 UK Gambling Commission Review as an alternative to bringing in a statutory levy on the gambling industry to fund research, education and treatment for problem gambling.
It was set up in 2009 to distribute funds and became fully operational in 2010. The GREaT Foundation, meanwhile, raises funds through voluntary donations from the gambling industry.
Explaining the RGF’s decision, a spokesperson said: "Our trustees found that the tri-partite arrangement set up after the review of research, education and treatment of problem gambling in 2008 to be unworkable and that they were unable to operate with the degree of independence consistent with their governance documents and their duties under charity law."
The organisation will now work with GREaT to determine how to manage the current grants and contracts and plan how best to operate between now and the end of March next year when the agreement ends.
