Tag Archives: BACTA
UK – Bacta launches legal challenge with government over delays to AGC reopening
Bacta has instructed global legal firm DWF Law to challenge the thinking behind the delayed reopening of AGCs after all other non-essential retail businesses. In a strongly worded letter to the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, Oliver Dowden, DWF Law, said: “Bacta had hoped it would not need to subject the decision…
UK – British Amusements association ‘furious’ to lose ‘valuable weeks of trade’
bacta has said it is ‘furious that its members have been ignored’ in Boris Johnson’s reopening roadmap and ‘will lose valuable weeks of trade’ – despite strong evidence that they could operate COVID safely. FECs, AGCs and pubs will remain shut in England until May 17 – although non-essential retail will be able to open…
UK – Bacta launches EAG Online 2021
Industry trade body, bacta, is delighted to announce that its popular business-to-businessm trade exhibition, The Entertainment, Attractions & Gaming International Expo (EAG), will go ahead as an online event from January 27 to 28 2021. EAG 2021 was originally due to take place in January 2021 at ExCeL London, but due to ongoing uncertainty caused…
UK – British Gambling industry unites once more for Safer Gambling Week
The UK Gambling Industry, led by the Betting and Gaming Council (BGC), The Bingo Association (BA) and the British Amusement Catering Trade Association (bacta), has today announced that Safer Gambling Week 2020 will take place from November 19 to 25. The annual campaign builds on the success of Responsible Gambling Week, which began in 2017…
UK – Praesepe, Blueprint and Bacta move quickly to answer charity SOS
Gauselmann owned brands, Praesepe and Blueprint have joined forces with UK trade association, Bacta to donate £12,000 to fund 100 Amazon Fire tablets and care packages to industry charity, Rays of Sunshine (ROS). The tablets, described as a ‘god send’ by ROS chief executive Laura Barnett, will be distributed to children who, due to restrictions…
UK – Praesepe includes social responsibility messaging on Category C machines
Praesepe, the Gauselmann owned AGC and bingo club operator with 160 venues located in 99 towns and cities in the UK, is using its’ entire estate of digital B3 and Category C machines to promote safer gambling. Following last December’s review of the 2019 Responsible Gambling Week and analysis of player exit research, Praesepe has…
UK – Bacta to integrate latest age estimation technology in YALP app
YALP, the secure cashless payments app, has underlined its robust social responsibility credentials through incorporating secure biometric technology from London-based Yoti. The partnership will help operators meet age verification requirements and promote safer gaming and data minimisation. Users can prove their age without revealing their date of birth or providing any additional personal data. Yoti’s…
UK- Merkur celebrate fantastic support for bacta Charitable Trust with a smile
Praesepe, part of the Gauselmann Group whose famous UK-facing brands include Blueprint Gaming, Betcom Games and Regal Gaming and Leisure, has celebrated its exciting and dynamic relationship with the bacta Charitable Trust with a cheque presentation totalling £20,000. The five figure sum, presented by Praesepe COO, Mark Schertle was received by bacta Chief Executive John…
UK – Bacta looks to bring cashless app to market before year end
Last week’s meeting of bacta’s National Council provided the green light for the association to enter into a joint venture partnership which will see it bring to market a cashless app for use on both analogue and digital equipment without the need for them to be connected to a network. The majority vote, which will…
