Casino entry is 18 and over, and SENSE is the scheme for physical venues
This page covers the age rule, the risk that comes with gambling, how national self-exclusion works for land-based casinos, and where to find independent help. It is the one page on this site we would rather you read than skim.
Casino entry in Great Britain is 18 and over, without exception
Every licensed casino in Great Britain is restricted to people aged 18 and over. Gambling below that age is a criminal offence, and venues are required to keep under-18s away from gaming. The casino at Resorts World Birmingham applies Challenge 25 in addition, so anyone who appears to be under 25 is asked to produce photographic identification before entering.[3, 4]
Nothing on this site is aimed at anyone under 18, and nothing here is intended to make gambling look like a way to earn money. It is not. Every casino game is built so that the house keeps a margin over time, which means the realistic expectation of any session is a loss.
Gambling is a form of spending, not a form of income
- Decide the amount before you go in, and treat it as the cost of the evening in the same way as a ticket or a meal.
- Set a time as well as a figure. Long sessions and late hours make it harder to stop.
- Tell somebody what you are planning to spend. It is much easier to hold a limit that another person knows about.
- Take a break as soon as it stops feeling like entertainment.
- Never gamble to recover money you have already lost. Chasing losses is the single most common route into serious harm.
- Never gamble with money set aside for rent, bills, food or debts, and never with borrowed money.
- Never treat gambling as a solution to a financial problem, or as an investment of any kind.
- Never gamble to manage stress, low mood or loneliness.
SENSE covers land-based casinos, and GAMSTOP does not
This distinction matters more than any other on this page. Sending somebody to the wrong scheme leaves them still able to walk into a casino.
SENSE, which stands for Self Enrolment National Self Exclusion, is the national self-exclusion scheme for the British casino industry. One application excludes you from every licensed land-based casino in Great Britain, not just from one venue or one operator. It is run by an independent company on behalf of the licensed casinos rather than by any single operator.[1]
There are two ways to enrol. You can use the scheme’s secure online portal from a phone, tablet or computer, or you can enrol in person at any participating casino, where a manager will complete a digital form with you. You do not have to enter the gaming areas to do that: you can simply ask to speak to a manager on arrival.[2] The same website explains how to extend, renew or come off the scheme when the time comes, and lists the participating venues.[1]
GAMSTOP is a different scheme and covers online gambling only. It blocks accounts with gambling websites and apps licensed in Great Britain. It will not stop anyone entering a physical casino, so it is not the scheme to use for a venue like this one. Anyone who gambles both online and in casinos generally needs both.[1]
Free and confidential support, none of it run by a gambling operator
These organisations are independent of the venue and of this guide. We list them as plain links because that is all they should ever be: no badges, no seals, and no suggestion that anyone here endorses this site.
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GamCare and the National Gambling Helpline
Free, confidential advice and treatment referrals across Great Britain. The helpline number is 0808 8020 133.
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GambleAware
Independent information on gambling harm, self-assessment tools and routes into treatment.
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Gamblers Anonymous
A fellowship of people recovering from gambling problems, running local meetings and online support.
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SENSE
National self-exclusion from every licensed land-based casino in Great Britain.
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Gambling Commission public register
Check who holds a licence, and what that licence covers, at the regulator’s own searchable register.
What this guide is, in this context
Midnight Resort House is an independent guide to one venue. We hold no gambling licence, take no bets, run no games and accept no deposits. We are not the licensee, we are not connected to the licensee, and we are not endorsed by the Gambling Commission or by any of the organisations listed above.
If anything on this site reads as encouragement to gamble beyond your means, that is a failure on our part rather than an intention. The purpose here is to describe a building, its rules and how to reach it.
Where each fact on this page came from
Every numbered marker above points to one of these pages, each of which was read on 2 September 2026. Where two sources disagreed, the difference is described in the text rather than smoothed over.
- SENSE, the national self-exclusion scheme for the British casino industryhttps://senseselfexclusion.com/
- SENSE, “How to enrol”https://senseselfexclusion.com/how-to-enrol
- Resorts World Birmingham, “Genting Casino”https://www.resortsworldbirmingham.co.uk/casino
- Genting Casinos, “Genting Casino Resorts World Birmingham”https://www.gentingcasinos.co.uk/casinos/genting-casino-resorts-world-birmingham/
- GamCare and the National Gambling Helplinehttps://www.gamcare.org.uk/
- GambleAwarehttps://www.gambleaware.org/
- Gamblers Anonymoushttps://www.gamblersanonymous.org/
- Gambling Commission public register, Genting Casinos UK Limited, licence summaryhttps://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/public-register/business/detail/537
- Gambling Commission, public register of gambling businesseshttps://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/public-register