Nikki Bond

Head of Gambling Action Lab

Nikki Bond leads the Gambling Action Lab at the Money and Mental Health Policy Institute. She heads our work with financial services and the wider sector to tackle gambling-related financial harms. From May 2023 to April 2024, she was Interim Head of Research and Policy. Prior to this, Nikki worked as a Research Officer leading our work to tackle mental health problems and financial difficulties in the debt advice sector, health services and the benefits system. Before joining Money and Mental Health in 2017, she worked in both financial and social care services, supporting people from marginalised groups. (she/her)

Policy notes and publications

Access to debt advice April 2, 2024 - The needs of people with serious mental health problems.
Debts and despair December 14, 2023 - How debt collection practices contribute to psychological harm.
Too much information? November 16, 2023 - Exploring opportunities and challenges presented by vulnerability data-sharing.
The pensions maze June 6, 2023 - Achieving better retirements for people with mental health problems.

Money and Mental Health and the ESRC Centre for Society and Mental Health’s joint submission to the Department for Health and Social Care’s major conditions strategy: call for evidence June 26, 2023 - Joint views on how the DHSC and wider government departments can better support people with mental ill health by addressing the financial circumstances that can exacerbate people's existing mental health problems.
Money and Mental Health’s submission to the Money and Pensions Service’s Request for Information on Mental Health Crisis Breathing Space April 12, 2023 - Money and Mental Health's view on proposals for expanding the Mental Health Crisis Breathing Space service.
Money and Mental Health submission to the Money and Pensions Service’s call for evidence on debt advice clients with deficit budgets December 1, 2022 - Money and Mental Health submission to the Money and Pensions Service’s call for evidence on […]
Money and Mental Health’s submission to HM Treasury’s Statutory Debt Repayment Plan Consultation July 29, 2022 -

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