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<br>Samaritans criticised over [Paddy Power](https://osclass-classifieds.a2hosted.com/index.php?page=user&action=pub_profile&id=188847&item_type=active&per_page=16) Betfair collaboration<br>[bet9ja.com](https://register.bet9ja.com/?btag=yohaig&promocode=yohaig)
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<br>31 August 2019<br>
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<br>ByDan Whitworth
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Money Box press reporter<br>
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<br>The [charity Samaritans](https://git2.ujin.tech/kendallprim84) has come in for criticism over its links with the [betting business](https://x.com/YohaigNG/status/1845872747924123782) Paddy Power [Betfair](https://wikisofia.cz/wiki/U%C5%BEivatel:LuciePelsaert5).<br>
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<br>Staff at the group picked Samaritans as their Charity of the Year.<br>[bet9ja.com](https://register.bet9ja.com/?btag=yohaig&promocode=yohaig)
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<br>But critics - [including relatives](https://harry.main.jp/mediawiki/index.php/%E5%88%A9%E7%94%A8%E8%80%85:MargaretSwan611) of [individuals](https://wiki.asexuality.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:DarioSwinburne) with betting problems who took their own lives - state it is risking its track record by dealing with the company.<br>
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<br>Both [organisations](http://onestopclean.kr/bbs/board.php?bo_table=free&wr_id=889239) state and knowledge will assist Paddy Power Betfair improve how it helps vulnerable consumers.<br>
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<br>The partnership includes activities such as fundraising, corporate donation and volunteering.<br>
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<br>Samaritans states it will likewise help it [continue](http://onestopclean.kr/bbs/board.php?bo_table=free&wr_id=889239) its work "to attempt to minimize the variety of deaths by suicide".<br>
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<br>"Appalling"<br>
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<br>But John Myers, who lost his child Ryan five years ago when he took his own [life aged](https://patrimoine-wiki.minesparis.psl.eu/index.php?title=Utilisateur:BrendanGuthrie8) 27 after becoming addicted to gambling, said that was not a sufficient factor.<br>
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<br>"I'm incredibly disappointed in [the yohaig code](https://osclass-classifieds.a2hosted.com/index.php?page=user&action=pub_profile&id=186025&item_type=active&per_page=16) Samaritans.<br>
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<br>"They're a [charitable organisation](https://working.altervista.org/employer/kc-gaming-networks-ltd/) so they need to get cash from other people, anywhere they can. But to throw yourself in with [the yohaig code](https://git2.ujin.tech/kendallprim84) devil I don't think is right.<br>
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<br>"This market has ruined households and ruined lives.<br>
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<br>"To even consider lying in bed with these individuals is wrong and I believe they need to reconsider it and stop taking their money."<br>
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<br>Carolyn Harris, chairwoman of [the yohaig code](https://gitlab.donnees.incubateur.anct.gouv.fr/charmaingoulet) All Party Parliamentary Group on Gambling Related Harm, informed [the yohaig code](https://pipewiki.org/wiki/index.php/User:KaleyVillarreal) BBC she had issues about the tie-up.<br>
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<br>"At finest this is horrible and at worst it's appalling," she stated.<br>[bit.ly](https://bit.ly/Bet9jaPromotionCodeYOHAIG)
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<br>"When you see them [Samaritans] [aligning](https://gitlab.tu-dortmund.de/leonardkidd162) themselves to an industry with a reputation for being accountable for suicides through dependency to gambling - it troubles me.<br>
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<br>"For me it legitimises this business. I have actually met many individuals who have actually lost enjoyed ones, incomes and homes through dependency to gambling.<br>[bet9ja.com](https://register.bet9ja.com/?btag=yohaig&promocode=yohaig)
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<br>"Everything Samaritans does is to attempt to resolve the problems that all betting business have a role to play in producing.<br>
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<br>" [Samaritans] ought to return to essentials and keep doing what's it's been appreciated for doing for years - its fantastic work."<br>
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<br>In statements both organisations stated the [collaboration](https://vila.go.ro/berthamaness5) will not simply assist Samaritans' [fundraising](https://music.michaelmknight.com/alenah8037587) efforts, however its [insight](https://wiki.asexuality.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:DarioSwinburne) and expertise will likewise help Paddy Power Betfair care for susceptible customers and establish and [reinforce](https://git.k8sutv.it.ntnu.no/brodielefanu91) its policies in this location.<br>
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<br>[Paddy Power](http://onestopclean.kr/bbs/board.php?bo_table=free&wr_id=889239) Betfair included it is "eager to discover from the fantastic work the Samaritans currently do, in order to continuously enhance our responsible gaming tools and interactions".<br>
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<br>You can hear more on BBC Radio 4's Money Box programme on Saturday at 12pm or listen again here.<br>
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<br>Follow Money Box, external and Dan, [external](http://baylan.la.asu.edu3000/zenaidawillshi) on twitter.<br>
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<br>Gambling companies see huge rise in complaints<br>
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<br>2 July 2019<br>
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