About us

Our editorial mission

Offshore Ledger UK exists because the paperwork behind offshore gambling licences is publicly available and rarely translated into British English that a UK adult can act on. The site takes a comparative-regulation approach to the topic, reading the Curaçao regime as reshaped by the Landsverordening op de Kansspelen of 24 December 2024, the Anjouan online licensing regulations issued out of the Union of the Comoros, the Malta Gaming Authority rulebook and the Gibraltar Regulatory Authority remote gambling framework alongside the UK Gambling Commission's own remit under the Gambling Act 2005 and the White Paper 2023 package. Each of those regimes produces a different consumer position for a UK adult, and the mission of the site is to make the differences legible without editorialising the choice.

The site does not tell an adult reader what to do. It does not steer a reader towards any specific operator. It does not take advertising, does not accept operator partnerships, and does not carry affiliate links. The independence is a design choice and a funding choice; the editorial group behind the network of information sites of which Offshore Ledger UK is one is funded by a fixed research honorarium arrangement that does not vary with reader traffic. What the site does do is publish the paperwork, name the trade-offs, and keep the National Gambling Helpline number visible on every page. The role of the site is closer to that of a public library than that of a review site, and we would rather a reader closed the tab having learned what they needed to know than clicked through to anything.

How we produce, check and update content

The pages on this site are produced from primary regulatory sources, that is, from the published rulebooks of the regulators concerned, from the statutory instruments through which UK law implements or interacts with those rulebooks, and from the enforcement notices and public statements each regulator has issued. Where a fact appears in the summary panels of a page, the underlying source is named in the body of the page or in the sources block at the foot. Where a fact has changed at source since the last review cycle, the line is updated and the last-updated date at the foot of the page is refreshed. The current review cycle date across the site is 5 August 2026.

Amelia Vaughn writes the pages and Dr Nathan Kilbride reviews them on a quarterly rhythm. His review is a substantive check, not a proofread; it looks for regulatory paperwork that has been superseded, for comparative claims that need a source on each side of the comparison, and for inferential claims that go beyond what the sources support. Where he asks for a sentence to be trimmed back, the sentence is trimmed back. Where the update materially changes the reader's takeaway, the sentence is rewritten rather than patched, because small edits accumulating into a page that no longer reads cleanly is a failure mode of the review process, and the standard the site holds itself to is that the page reads cleanly at every review cycle or it is rewritten.

Editorial policy on operator names, bonuses, and affiliate links

Offshore Ledger UK does not name individual operators in body text and does not carry links to operators of any kind. Where an operator name appears on the site, which will occur only in a context in which the naming is necessary to identify a specific enforcement action or a specific licensing event named by a regulator in a public document, the naming carries the primary source of the identification. The site does not carry bonus information, promotional codes, or comparison tables. The reason is not that the offshore market is not real; it is real, and this site publishes information about it. The reason is that a public information site that reads regulators for a living cannot at the same time act as an acquisition channel for the operators being regulated. The two roles are incompatible, and this site chooses the first.

Affiliate links are a specific case of the same incompatibility. Every affiliate link on a gambling site is a commercial relationship with an operator, and every commercial relationship changes the incentive of the editorial voice. The editorial group behind this site holds no affiliate relationships and does not accept payment on any traffic-linked basis, which is why the site is able to write the pages it writes. Where a reader is looking for operator recommendations, the reader will not find them here, and the site will not signpost the reader to a source that would provide them. The reader is welcome to look elsewhere, and the site will not compete with any such source; it will do a different job.

Contact and corrections

Corrections are welcomed and processed on a next-review-cycle basis where the point is one of interpretation and on an immediate basis where the point is factual. The contact address for corrections, editor queries and factual points is [email protected], which reaches the editor directly. Corrections are noted openly on the page concerned where the correction is material to the reader's takeaway, and the last-updated line is refreshed accordingly. The site does not carry a comments section, which is a design choice that reflects the resource cost of moderating a UK gambling-topic comment thread to a public-information standard.

The team behind the site is Amelia Vaughn as author, Dr Nathan Kilbride as reviewer, and a small editorial support function that handles the technical publication. Amelia is not a lawyer and the site does not offer legal advice; the pages are written from a policy-reading vantage point and are dated to the review cycle. Dr Nathan Kilbride is a gambling policy researcher whose background sits at the intersection of gambling regulation, consumer harm measurement and comparative jurisdictional design, with peer-reviewed publications on self-exclusion scheme design, statutory levy design and small-island licensing regime comparison. Both of them are contactable through the editor address above, and both respond to reader mail.