🎲 Silcock Leisure Group Limited

Silcock Leisure Group Limited is a land-based gambling and amusement operator in Great Britain, active under a UK Gambling Commission operating licence. It forms part of a wider family-owned leisure group whose activities include adult gaming centres, family entertainment centres, and other seaside amusement and hospitality businesses. The wider enterprise traces its origins to a travelling fairground business established in the late 19th century.

The group’s origins date to 1890, when Edward Silcock Snr founded Silcock’s Travelling Fairs, which toured the North of England. Around 1914, his sons Lawrence, Edward, Herbert and Arthur Silcock continued the enterprise as Silcock Brothers, operating travelling fairs in the early 20th century. In the late 1950s, Herbert Silcock and his wife Jane established fairground rides at Southport Fairground, marking a shift from travelling fairs towards fixed-location seaside operations.

Over subsequent decades the business developed into a diversified leisure group operating amusement arcades, family entertainment centres and related attractions in coastal resorts, notably Southport and Blackpool. The corporate structure includes Silcock Leisure Group Limited and associated entities such as Silcock Leisure (North West) Limited, which holds several of the group’s gambling machine permissions. The company remains under family management, with roles such as Head of Operations held by family members including Serena Silcock‑Prince.

Licensing and Operations

Silcock Leisure Group Limited holds an active operating licence from the UK Gambling Commission (UKGC). This licence authorises it to provide regulated gambling facilities in Great Britain, in accordance with the conditions attached to its operating licence and the Gambling Act 2005.

Within the wider group, Silcock Leisure (North West) Limited holds additional UKGC operating licences, including:

• Gaming Machine General Adult Gaming Centre (Non-Remote), active since 1 January 2009
• Gaming Machine General Family Entertainment Centre (Non-Remote), active since 1 January 2009
• Linked Gaming Machine Technical Supplier (Non-Remote), active since 19 April 2010

These permissions allow the group to operate adult gaming centres offering category B, C and D gaming machines, to run family entertainment centres with category C and D machines, and to act as a non-remote linked gaming machine technical supplier. The group’s gambling-related activity is therefore focused on land-based gaming machines and amusement operations rather than remote (online) gambling.

The operating licences held by the group’s entities are listed by the UK Gambling Commission as active. There is no publicly reported change of status such as surrender or revocation for these permissions.

Regulatory History

Publicly available information indicates that the operating licences associated with the group, including that of Silcock Leisure Group Limited, are currently active with the UK Gambling Commission. There is no widely reported record of regulatory enforcement action, financial penalties, or licence suspensions by the UKGC against the company or its associated licence-holding entities. If any regulatory actions have occurred, they have not been prominently documented in publicly accessible summary sources.