# Responsible play

> Prize competitions should be fun. Enter within your means, set your own limits, and know where to get support.

Source: https://granddraws.co.uk/responsible-play

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# Responsible play

Last updated: 20 October 2026

Entering competitions should always be fun and affordable. Our competitions are skill-based prize competitions rather than gambling products, but we still want everyone to enter sensibly and within their means.

## Our commitments

- You must be 18 or over to enter.
- Every competition has a maximum number of entries per person, so no one can spend without limit.
- There is always a free postal entry route with the same chance of winning.
- We never use pressure tactics or imply that entering will solve financial problems.

## Tips for staying in control

- Set yourself a budget before you enter, and stick to it.
- Only spend what you can comfortably afford to lose.
- Never chase a result or enter to try to win money back.
- Take a break if it stops being fun.

## Set a limit or take a break

Your [account](https://granddraws.co.uk/account) has a **Play safely** panel with two choices you make yourself: a personal monthly spend limit, and self-exclusion. Paid entry has not opened yet, so for now each choice is saved in the browser you set it in and we hold no copy of it. Both become account-enforced before paid entries open.

To have a limit or a break recorded by us, so that it holds whatever device you use, email [hello@granddraws.co.uk](mailto:hello@granddraws.co.uk). Tell us the period you want and we will close entry for your account for it, or close the account altogether. You can change or clear a spend limit yourself, on the page you set it on. A self-exclusion has no undo on the site: lifting one means contacting us.

## Where to get support

If you are worried about your own or someone else’s spending, free and confidential help is available:

- [BeGambleAware](https://www.begambleaware.org), advice and support (0808 8020 133).
- [GamCare](https://www.gamcare.org.uk), the National Gambling Helpline.
- [Citizens Advice](https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk), free money and debt guidance.
- [National Debtline](https://www.nationaldebtline.org), free and confidential debt advice from the charity the [Money Advice Trust](https://moneyadvicetrust.org).
- [Samaritans](https://www.samaritans.org), someone to talk to, any time, day or night (call free on 116 123).
- [Mind](https://www.mind.org.uk), the mental health charity, with information and support if money worries are affecting how you feel.