Joanne Macrae

EPIC Risk Management

EPIC Risk Management is the leading independent gambling harm-prevention consultancy in the UK, USA, Europe and internationally. We are a professional services business specialising in sector leading education, awareness raising, advisory and accredited training for the prevention of gambling harms. Where we work: Professional Sport - we work directly with numerous global player associations and sports. We are currently conducting the largest and most comprehensive gambling education and awareness programme ever conducted in world sport with Sky Bet and the EFL. Gambling Industry - working only with operators who are serious about social responsibility and making gambling fairer and safer. Our speciality is how to intervene and interact with gamblers who may be suffering harm. Financial Services - specialists in working with risk functions, fitness and propriety, recruitment, audit & compliance and Executive teams. Education - 55,000 children are classed as problem gamblers in the UK, while 37% of 11 to 16-year-olds in England and Scotland gamble. EPIC work across a fast-increasing number of schools, colleges and universities to provide professional, hard hitting seminars. Criminal Justice Sector - working directly in prisons and probation teams to reduce re-offending and signpost support.