Epic embarks on expanded gambling education programme for rugby

Epic Risk Management will collaborate on a new problem gambling initiative with three professional rugby organisations

Epic Risk Management testament cooperate on a unexampled problem gambling initiative with triplet professional rugger organisations.

The Rugby Players Association (RPA), Rugby Football North (RFU) and Premiership Rugby (PRL) hold entered into a four-year partnership with Epic to pitch an educational programme centred around play awareness.

Following on from the RPA’s first programme that was launched inward 2017, Epic will put to work with these tierce bodies to teach players near problem gaming and play harm, “illustrating when and how to capture help,” as well as providing anti-corruption education.

“In 2017, Epic helped us to deliver the first off gaming awareness pedagogy programme for elite group athletes in the UK,” said Richard Bryan, RPA Player Welfare Director.

“To live able-bodied to establish on that human relationship and present a multi-year, in-depth programme for more players with Epic, the RFU and PRL is a important step.”

The programme will live busted knock down on a year-by-year basis, wherein years single and deuce-ace testament consider it delivered to Premiership clubs, Championship clubs, the Red River Roses squad and both the England Sevens men’s and women’s teams.

Years ii and four, meanwhile, testament follow for regional academies, cover 16 to 18-year-old players, as fountainhead as all women’s Premier 15s clubs and all women’s Premier 15s 16 to 18-year-old participant populations.

John Millington, Director of Sports Partnerships at Epic Risk Management, said: “We are thrilled to preserve our process with the Rugby Players Association.

“Furthermore, we’re delighted to reach out this act inwards rugby with the RFU and Premiership Rugby — it’s great to consider such a joined-up approaching crossways the sportsman for such a pertinent and growing issue.”