🎲 Helen & Douglas House

Helen & Douglas House is a UK charity operator that appears on the UK Gambling Commission register with an active operating licence. It was founded as a hospice charity in 1982 and is structured as a charitable company limited by guarantee.[2][3][6]

Helen House was established in November 1982 by Sister Frances (Frances Ritchie) as a children’s hospice in East Oxford.[2] Douglas House opened in 2004 as a hospice for young adults aged 16 to 35, and the combined organisation is referred to as Helen & Douglas House.[2][3] The charity’s governance information states that it is a Charitable Company Registered by Guarantee formed under the Companies Acts 1985–9 with exclusively charitable objects.[3] A separate trading subsidiary, Helen & Douglas House (Trading) Limited, is registered at Companies House and is linked to the charity for retail and commercial fundraising activity.[5]

Licensing and Operations

The organisation holds a UK Gambling Commission operating licence with status recorded as active and classified as a UK Gambling Commission Operating Licence.[UKGC data] This licence authorises it to conduct regulated gambling activities in Great Britain in accordance with the scope and conditions of that operating licence as defined by the Commission.

The charity appears on the Gambling Commission premises register in connection with its fundraising and retail activities.[6] Its presence on the register is associated with premises where regulated gambling products such as lotteries or raffles may be offered for fundraising purposes, subject to the relevant statutory and licence conditions.[2][3][6]

Regulatory History

The available sources do not record any regulatory fines or sanctions imposed on the organisation by the Gambling Commission.[6] No enforcement actions or penalties by other regulators are reported in the cited material.[2][3][5][6]