🎲 Scottish Society For The Prevention Of Cruelty To Animals

This entity is an animal welfare charity in Scotland that also holds a gambling operating licence in Great Britain. It is currently authorised by the Gambling Commission as an active operator. Its gambling activity relates to charitable fundraising rather than commercial consumer gambling products.

The organisation traces its origins to 1839, when it was founded in Edinburgh as a society dedicated to the prevention of cruelty to animals in Scotland. It operates as an independent Scottish charity and is not part of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA) or any other UK animal welfare group. It functions as a standalone body and is not part of a wider corporate group of gambling companies.

The charity’s core activities focus on animal rescue, welfare enforcement, rehabilitation and public education within Scotland. Its use of gambling is ancillary, providing a regulated mechanism for raising funds in support of its charitable purposes, typically through lotteries or similar arrangements permitted under British gambling law for non‑commercial societies.

Licensing and Operations

The organisation holds a Gambling Commission operating licence. This is a non-remote operating licence authorising it to provide certain forms of gambling in Great Britain in accordance with the Gambling Act 2005 and related regulations.

As a charity, it requires an operating licence in order to lawfully promote and conduct larger-scale lotteries or other regulated gambling products used for fundraising, beyond the lower thresholds that can be run under local authority registration alone. The licence permits it to operate as a society engaged in gambling primarily for non-commercial, charitable purposes, rather than as a general commercial gambling operator.

According to the Gambling Commission public register, the licence is currently recorded as active. No separate trading names are listed for this licence. There is no public register indication of other types of operating licence (such as casino, betting or bingo) beyond those needed for society/charitable gambling. The public register does not show any history of surrendered or lapsed operating licences for this entity.

Regulatory History

The Gambling Commission public register entry for this licence does not record any regulatory sanctions, financial penalties or licence suspensions in relation to this operator. There is no published record on the register of formal warnings or other enforcement actions.

If any compliance assessments or routine regulatory interactions have taken place, these are not detailed on the public register. The current status on the register is active, with no annotations indicating ongoing regulatory action.