About Us

The Team and the Readers We Write For

Behind the site is an editorial team led by Harriet Cole. Harriet goes through the terms and conditions, the bonus rules and the cashier pages of each casino we cover, and every fact comes from the casinos' own published pages. That is what 'we' means on this site: a team that reads what operators publish and turns it into plain advice for the person about to play.

We write for UK adults weighing up a casino that has no UK Gambling Commission licence, who would like its rules spelled out before they commit. After reading a review you should know how much must be wagered before bonus money becomes yours, how much you can withdraw in a week and what documents a payout might involve, without combing through the terms yourself.

Everything is in British English, and amounts stay in the currency the casino quotes. Pounds remain pounds and euros remain euros; when we compare, we compare euros with euros and pounds with pounds.

This site is not for under-18s, and it is not for anyone who has signed up to GAMSTOP. If that is you, nothing on these pages is written for you.

Where the Money Comes From

If you open a casino account through one of our links, we may be paid a commission. That income keeps the site running, and it means you never pay to read it.

Money cannot buy a casino a better position, a gentler review or the deletion of a drawback. We rank the reviews by how we weigh the checks published on this site, which is a judgement rather than a measurement, and each review spells out what a casino's strengths cost the player, whatever deal exists behind the link.

Commercial ties do not change the language either. A capped bonus, a low daily withdrawal limit for new accounts or a deposit that must be played through before it can leave is described just as bluntly as anything else.

We hold no player funds, run no casino accounts and take no deposits. Nothing here is a bet, a payment page or a registration form.

Our Checks Before Any Casino Is Listed

Each casino gets the same reading in the same order. It starts with the list of excluded countries, since that alone decides whether a UK resident can join; then come seven areas:

• Licence and regulatory scope – the authority that licenses the casino and whether its licence reaches UK players. A site that lacks a UK Gambling Commission licence falls outside GAMSTOP and beyond the Commission's complaint routes.
• The operating company – the business named in the terms as running the site, and whether it runs any other casino we review.
• Bonus terms in full – every welcome stage, what the wagering multiplies, the bet limit, the deadline, the caps on cashouts and the games that count.
• Payments and account currency – whether pounds are offered, which methods accept deposits, which of those can pay out, and the minimum and maximum for each.
• Withdrawals in practice – the minimum, the caps per day, week and month, any turnover a deposit needs first and the documents a payout can require.
• Support and complaints – the channels and opening hours of support, the steps of the complaint procedure and where it ends.
• Player-protection tools – deposit, loss and time limits, reality checks, breaks and self-exclusion, and how fast each can be set or removed.

Before the date at the top of a page changes, its reviews are compared with the casino's live pages once more.

The Limits of What We Know

We read terms; we do not try the casinos out. No one on the team has registered, deposited, played or withdrawn at a casino on this site, and the payout times we quote are the ones the casinos publish. Whether a casino follows its own terms in practice, or whether an 'instant' payout really is instant, is beyond what we can confirm.

Terms can change within weeks, and a figure may go stale soon after we have checked it. That is why every page is dated, and why the casino's current terms always outrank our account of them.

None of us is a lawyer, financial adviser or counsellor, and the site cannot tell you whether you should gamble. If gambling is costing you more money or time than you intended, the tools and free UK services in our responsible gambling advice are a good place to start.

Putting This to Use

Our reviews of UK casinos not on GamStop can help you narrow the field, but the choice stays yours. Decide which single figure matters most – the lowest withdrawal, the wagering, the withdrawal cap or the controls available – and then read that casino's current terms before you sign up.

Set a spending limit for yourself before the first session, and use the casino's own limits from the start if it has them. A block in your banking app, or blocking software on your devices, gives you a safeguard that works whatever the casino does.

Spotted a figure that no longer matches a casino's site, or still have a question? Write to the editorial team and we will check it against the casino's own pages.