Resources and supporter kit

Download the following assets to promote the week and your event on your website, social media platforms or e-newsletters.  

• Gambling Harm Awareness Week 2024 logo 

• Digital banners - Campaign animated

• Digital banners - Campaign static

• Email assets - signature, EDM header

• E-Newsletter template

These posters and flyers can be used throughout the year to promote the chances of winning, and help people make informed choices about gambling. 

• Posters - A4 and A3 portrait  

• Flyer - A4 – Ways to assist in preventing gambling harm

• Flyer – A4 – 4 ways to protect yourself from gambling harm

• Protection in venues poster - Arabic

• Protection in venues poster - Chinese simplified

• Protection in venues poster - Chinese traditional

• Protection in venues poster - Greek

• Protection in venues poster - Italian

• Protection in venues poster - Vietnamese

A range of social media assets are available to download to promote Gambling Harm Awareness Week on your channels. 

Make sure to use the hashtags #GHAW2024 #KnowWhatsBehindtheGame 

• Social Media tiles - "You're meant to lose" campaign

• Social Media tiles - GHAW Branded 

We encourage you to host an event or group activity for Gambling Harm Awareness Week 2024. 

In the past, organisations have held both physical events as well as online. Some event ideas for you to consider are: 

• community information session with a guest speaker, i.e. a gambling harm expert/researcher or person with lived experience of gambling harm. 

• health and wellbeing information session, where information on gambling harm is woven into a broader discussion about overall wellbeing. 

• if you’re a local council or community organisation, invite the local secondary school (senior levels) to get behind Gambling Harm Awareness Week. Run a quiz or competition with students to come up with ideas for their own campaign about gambling harm. 

• if you’re a sporting club, sign up to Love the game, not the odds. 

Promoting your event on Facebook 

You can post on your own Facebook page or ask other organisations to post your content. 

We recommend that you create a Facebook event page to promote your event.  

Visit Meta's help guide for more information on how to create events for your Facebook page. 

• Approximately 440,000 Victorians are either at risk of, or already experience gambling harm. 

• Those most likely to experience gambling harm are people who gamble on casino table games (36%), followed by sports (35%), bingo (32%) and poker machines (29%).  

• Young people are affected by gambling harm at a higher rate than those aged over 65 years, with over a quarter of those aged 18 to 24 years who gamble experiencing harm. 

• Nearly a third of Victorian adults who use poker machines experience at least one harm from their gambling, while 20% experience significant gambling issues. 

• Common signs of gambling-related harm include: 

  •  stress  

  • irritability 

  • trouble sleeping or concentrating  

  • drinking or smoking more than usual  

  • not spending as much time with family or friends  

  • frequently borrowing money  

  • irregular periods of having lots of cash and no cash  

  • an intense interest in sporting odds  

  • using multiple betting apps. 

• Many people experience negative effects from gambling, like stress, regret and guilt, no matter how much or how often they gamble. These negative effects can start off small and build up over time, causing distress in their lives.