You will need a licence if you want to provide facilities for gambling or the use of a premises for gambling.  The three types of gambling licensable are: 

• gaming
• betting
• participating in a lottery

Gaming

This means playing a game of chance for a prize

Betting

This means making or accepting a bet on:

• the outcome of a race, competition or other event or process
• the likelihood of anything happening or not happening
• whether anything is or is not true

Participating in a lottery

This includes raffles, tombolas and sweepstakes.  Lotteries can't be run for commercial gain and are where:

• people have to pay to take part
• prizes are allocated to participants
• the prizes are either allocated wholly by chance or by a series of processes where the first of those processes relies wholly on chance

Our responsibilities and the licences we issue

Premises licences for:

• betting offices
• race tracks
• bingo clubs
• adult gaming centres 
• family entertainment centres

Permits for:

• gaming machines in members clubs
• gaming machine permits for alcohol licensed premises
• gaming machine permits for unlicensed family entertainment centres
• prize gaming

We are also responsible for administering:

• temporary use notices for the temporary use of a premises for gambling, and
• occasional use notices to allow temporary betting on a track

 and registering small society lotteries (under £20,000 ticket sales)