Player Development Programme
Recent Programme Delivery:
Professional sports teams have a significant ‘blind spot.’ How to identify a player who is involved in harmful or excessive gambling.
EPIC has the solution. Trusted partner to the largest sporting leagues and teams in the world, EPIC helps brands protect people, performance, and value.
Trust is earned:
Protect. Enhance. Strengthen.
Marc Williams makes a welcome return to Wrexham
Acknowledged experts in the implementation of responsible gaming strategies that protect professional sports clubs from gambling harm, EPIC uniquely provides its services through the lens of Lived Experience.
The partners, families, friends, teammates, coaches, and colleagues of former gambling addicts couldn’t identify that they had a problem. So how can you? EPIC will upskill your staff to not only recognise but to implement effective intervention.
Of football players gamble
Believe that gambling “is a problem” in
Believe there is a gambling culture at their club.
of clients rate us 9 or 10-out-of-10. What we deliver will make a real positive difference to your members, your brand, and your organisation.
Why Partner With EPIC?
We are experts in the field of gambling harm, offering unique expertise and a lived-experience perspective that will help you guard against the risks.
Gambling not only impacts the individual player, but the team environment and the sports club they represent.
Excessive gambling WILL impact the player’s and the team’s performance.
Identifying harm at an early stage allows sports clubs to effectively mitigate the risk.
The EPIC Gambling Spectrum© allows sports teams to explore the relationship their players have with gambling.
Effective conversations set the tone for a positive outcome.
EPIC’s training avoids assumptions and allows players to have their say. There are always two sides to the story.
Empathy and understanding are vital to ensuring that a player feels heard, understood, and supported, and encourages them to seek help.
Collaborating with the MLSPA to educate MLS players on the risks of gambling harm
Putting safer gambling practices at the heart of the Hippodrome’s approach
Sharing lived experience of gambling harm with 170 student-athletes at the University of Michigan
Delivering gambling harm awareness education to five schools with Chelsea FC Foundation
Lived experience at the heart of everything we do...
EPIC’s value proposition to its partners is professional services delivered by consultants with lived experience of gambling addiction. This remains the foundation for the design and delivery of all EPIC solutions blending deep levels of industry knowledge with real-life.
