🎲 Cain's Amusements Limited

This company is a land-based gambling and amusement arcade operator in Great Britain, holding an active operating licence from the Gambling Commission. It operates non-remote gambling facilities, focusing on physical premises rather than online gambling. The company was incorporated on 4 June 2003 as a private limited company in the United Kingdom.

Public corporate records indicate that it is an independently registered entity, with no publicly documented parent company or group structure. Companies House filings list company officers and standard financial statements, but do not show a wider corporate group relationship. Available financial data for recent years, including a reported cash at bank balance in excess of £1 million in 2023, indicate that it has continued trading during this period, but detailed financial analysis is not published beyond statutory accounts.

The business traces its commercial origins to a family-operated fairground and amusement concern. Historical material about British travelling fairs and amusement arcades records members of the Cain family as travelling showmen involved in fairground rides, prize supply, and arcade-style amusements from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. These activities were associated with travelling fairs, including those linked to the Deptford Show Ground and other fairground circuits. Over time, the family activities developed from mobile fairground operations into fixed-site amusement arcades and gaming venues.

The present limited company, incorporated in 2003, represents the formal corporate vehicle for these amusement and gambling activities in Great Britain. Public sources do not record any mergers, acquisitions, or disposals involving this company, and there is no widely reported rebranding beyond the core “Cain’s Amusements” trading identity connected with land-based arcades.

Licensing and Operations

The company holds an operating licence issued by the Gambling Commission under the Gambling Act 2005. The licence is categorised as a non-remote operating licence, authorising the provision of gambling facilities in physical premises rather than via remote (online) channels.

According to the Gambling Commission public register, the licence is active and covers arcade-style operations. This typically includes adult gaming centres and/or family entertainment centres, allowing the operator to make certain categories of gaming machines available for use on its licensed premises, subject to statutory stake, prize, and access restrictions. The company is listed on the Commission’s premises register with multiple licensed sites, reflecting a network of land-based venues.

There is no indication in the public register that the company holds remote operating licences for online casino, betting, bingo, or other remote gambling activities. Its regulatory profile is therefore that of a land-based, non-remote operator within the British arcade and gaming machine sector.

Regulatory History

Searches of the Gambling Commission public register and publicly accessible regulatory announcements do not show any published enforcement action, financial penalty, licence suspension, or revocation in relation to this operator. There is no evidence in public regulatory sources of sanctions by gambling regulators outside Great Britain.

Where changes to licence conditions or premises authorisations have occurred, they are recorded in the Commission’s routine licensing data rather than in separate enforcement notices. No publicly reported regulatory events of wider industry significance involving this company have been identified in available sources.