Original data, surveys, and editorial investigations on UK bingo — the players, the operators, the halls, the regulation, and the money.
Britain has 785 bingo premises licences but only about a third belong to bingo clubs. What the law says bingo is, who holds the licences, and what you can actually play at each kind of venue.
Britain's bingo premises took the same £703m in 2025/26 as in 2008/09, but machines now make 66% of it. Official Gambling Commission data on where a bingo hall's money comes from, what each machine earns and how the tax falls.
Mecca Bingo Exeter called its last house on Sunday 7 June 2026, after 63 years of bingo at the same address, with…
Bingo keeps getting written off. Our photo archive says otherwise. Drag the slider and watch the halls change.
Somewhere in Dundee tonight, a crowd will queue for a gig on a floor where clickety-click echoed for fifty years. In Andover,…
On Sunday 7 June 2026, eight Mecca bingo halls called their last house. Birkenhead, Croydon, Exeter, Kingstanding, Sheffield, St Helens, Sunderland and…
Ask most people whether a night at the bingo costs more than it did twenty years ago and they’ll say yes, of…
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