🎲 Age UK Education and Research Lottery CIC

This entity is a community interest company that operated lottery-based gambling activities to generate income in support of the wider Age UK group. It holds an active operating licence from the Gambling Commission in Great Britain and is authorised to provide gambling services in connection with its lottery activities. The company was incorporated in 2018 and formed part of Age UK’s wider fundraising and trading structure.

The company was incorporated on 21 May 2018 as a Community Interest Company limited by guarantee under company number 11372685. Its registered business activity is classified under SIC code 92000 (gambling and betting activities). Age UK’s published annual reports group this company with other “Lottery CICs” and fundraising vehicles, indicating that it operated lotteries or lottery-style products to raise funds for Age UK’s charitable purposes. Within the Age UK group structure, it functioned as a specialist lottery operator rather than as a general commercial gambling provider.

Licensing and Operations

The company holds a Gambling Commission operating licence in Great Britain. This licence authorises it to provide gambling facilities in line with its stated business activity of gambling and betting, specifically the operation of lotteries and related products for fundraising purposes. As a community interest company linked to a national charity, it falls within the category of operators that run lotteries to generate income for good causes.

The operating licence covers the provision and promotion of lottery products to customers in Great Britain, subject to the conditions attached to all licensed operators, including requirements on social responsibility, anti-money laundering controls and fair and open conduct of gambling. The licence is recorded by the Gambling Commission as active.

Age UK’s group reporting refers to income from “The Silver Line and the Lottery CICs” as part of its fundraising totals, which places this company’s operational activity within a broader portfolio of Age UK-branded fundraising mechanisms. Its role was to conduct gambling activity in the form of lotteries on a regulated basis, with proceeds contributing to Age UK’s charitable work.

Regulatory History

Publicly accessible Companies House records for the company primarily cover corporate filings such as incorporation documents, annual accounts, confirmation statements and, in due course, dissolution documentation. These records do not list Gambling Commission sanctions or enforcement actions.

Based on the available information, no fines, regulatory settlements or formal enforcement actions by the Gambling Commission specific to this company have been identified in the public corporate and charity-reporting material consulted. Any detailed regulatory case history would be recorded, if applicable, on the Gambling Commission’s own registers and publications.