🎲 Silcock Leisure (North West) Limited

This company is a land-based gambling and amusement operator in Great Britain, holding an active operating licence from the Gambling Commission. It is part of a wider family-run leisure and amusements group that operates seaside arcades, rides and catering outlets, particularly in North West England. The present corporate entity was incorporated in the mid-2000s, but the family business traces its origins to travelling fairs established in the late 19th century.

The wider group developed from Silcock’s Travelling Fairs, founded in the 1890s by Edward Silcock Senior. During the early 20th century, his sons expanded the travelling fair operations. In the 1950s, family members including Herbert Silcock and his wife Jane began to establish more permanent fairground rides at Southport, contributing to the shift from travelling fairs to fixed-site seaside amusements.

The current company was incorporated on 25 January 2005. It forms part of the Silcock Leisure Group, which encompasses a range of leisure and catering businesses such as amusement arcades, traditional fairground rides, fish and chip restaurants and ice cream outlets in coastal resort towns including Southport and Blackpool. The business remains family owned, with successive generations of the Silcock family involved in management and operations.

Licensing and Operations

The company holds a Gambling Commission operating licence in Great Britain. This authorises it to provide certain types of gambling facilities in accordance with the conditions of its licence and the Gambling Act 2005. Based on its business activities and public information about the group, this licence relates to land-based gaming and amusement operations, including arcades and amusement-with-prizes style gambling typically found in seaside and family entertainment environments.

The operating licence is currently recorded by the Gambling Commission as active. There is no public indication that the company’s Gambling Commission licence has been surrendered, lapsed or revoked. The licence permits the company to continue to offer licensed gambling facilities at its approved premises, subject to compliance with all relevant regulatory requirements and technical standards.

The company’s gambling-related activities sit alongside non-gambling leisure operations within the broader Silcock Leisure Group. These include family entertainment centres, traditional fairground attractions and catering outlets, which may operate on the same sites as licensed gambling facilities but are not themselves gambling activities regulated by the Commission.

Regulatory History

Publicly available information does not indicate any formal regulatory enforcement action, financial penalty, or licence review by the Gambling Commission specifically in relation to this operator. No fines, suspensions or regulatory settlements have been reported in connection with its Gambling Commission operating licence.

The company therefore appears in the Commission’s public register as an active licensee without recorded adverse regulatory determinations. Any routine compliance assessments or inspections that may have occurred have not been reported as resulting in sanctions or changes to its licence status.