Best bingo casinos UK 2026 — ten licensed rooms where the slots actually matter

Updated September 2026

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23 September 2026 — verified against the Gambling Commission’s public register of gambling businesses.

A bingo casino is, in plain terms, two products sharing one wallet: a live bingo room with cards, daubs and a chat host, and a slots catalogue that runs alongside it. The UK market is unusually crowded at that seam — the slots side carries every modern protection the Gambling Commission has built since 2021, and the bingo side carries rules that go back to the 1960s. This page sorts through ten licensed operators to see which of them put a credible rooms product behind the slots, which ones have the licence you can check on the register, and what the 10x wagering cap introduced on 19 December 2025 actually does to the offers that sit in your inbox.

How a mobile bingo casino app holds up in 2026

Mobile is where bingo has either gained or lost a generation of players, and the test is straightforward: does the room run in landscape, does it daub for you if you ask, and does the slots catalogue open without a separate login. Bingo casino apps on the major UK-licensed sites split roughly into three groups. The first, led by Betway and bet365, runs as a single app that holds both the bingo lobby and the full slots catalogue behind one sign-in. The second, including Paddy Power and Betfred, keeps bingo and slots in a tabbed browser wrapper rather than a true app, which works but loses a tile of phone storage in exchange. The third, the smaller set led by Midnite and kwiff, ships as a Progressive Web App and is installed by saving the URL to the home screen, which dodges the App Store review process entirely.

The reason that split matters is the load time on the room. A 90-ball British bingo ticket, with three rows of nine and fifteen numbers, calls roughly one number every two to four seconds during a quiet session. A slot game cycle in the same lobby, by contrast, runs at the Commission’s minimum 2.5-second spin speed. Both are CPU-light, but the chat window is not — it streams continuously during a room session, and on older Android handsets a poorly optimised app will stutter the chat while still drawing the ticket. That stutter is the one quality signal a player notices before they notice the catalogue.

A practical test before committing: open a free bingo room (every brand listed here runs at least one with no entry fee), let it run for ten minutes while you do nothing else with the phone, and watch the chat. If the chat holds a steady scroll and the ticket auto-daubs cleanly, the rest of the app will follow. If the chat freezes on minute three, the slots side will be no better.

What an app cannot do, on any of these brands, is replace the desktop version entirely. The live chat moderation tools run on desktop, the responsible-gaming history pulls from a page built for a wider screen, and the deposit-limit prompt lives in a settings panel that is genuinely easier to use on a laptop. The mobile path is the one you will use most days; the desktop path is the one you will use when something needs to be checked.

Bingo-linked slots — what the paytable actually shows

A bingo-linked slot is a five-reel video slot with bingo mechanics layered on top: numbered balls drawn from a 1-90 pool, daubed onto a card grid, and free-spin rounds triggered by completing a line, two lines or a full house. They are not the same as a 90-ball bingo room, even when the brand sells them in the same lobby. The room takes a fixed-price ticket, calls numbers live, pays a fixed prize pool and runs at a steady pace. The slot is a single-player machine with a random number generator, pays according to its own paytable, and has nothing to do with the live caller.

The history is more interesting than the mechanic. Modern bingo traces to Italian lottery around 1530, spread to France as Le Lotto in the eighteenth century, and reached Great Britain in the same period; the Betting and Gaming Act 1960, which took effect on 1 January 1961, legalised large cash prizes and triggered the rapid expansion of dedicated bingo halls, including the chain that became Mecca Bingo. The British 90-ball format — a 27-space ticket in nine columns of three, with five numbers and four blanks per row — was already standard by then, and tickets are still sold in strips of six that cover every number from 1 to 90. Edwin S. Lowe patented the modern card design in 1942.

What this history gives the player today is a vocabulary that slots borrow heavily. Line, two lines, full house, daub — these are slot bonus features now, not just room calls. The paytable on a bingo-linked slot typically sets the full house at the top prize, with line and two lines paid in descending order, and a free-spin round keyed to completing the full house on the slot’s virtual card. The return to player on these titles is published in the help screen; volatility is rarely published, but the pattern is usually low-to-medium given the steady drip of small wins on the line patterns.

A point worth stating plainly: the Gambling Commission treats a bingo-linked slot as an online slot for the purposes of every protection introduced since 2021. The 2.5-second minimum spin, the auto-play ban, the losses-disguised-as-wins ban, the £5 stake cap for 25-and-over players and the £2 cap for 18-24 — every one of those rules applies to the slot side of a bingo casino exactly as it applies to a slot-only site. The bingo room sits under its own set of rules and is not subject to the slot stake caps, but the moment a player moves from a 5p room ticket to a 50p slot spin the stake-limit regime engages.

The crash-style game deserves a separate mention. Aviator, developed by Spribe (founded 2018, the title released 2019), runs as a multiplayer round in which a multiplier rises from 1.00x until it randomly crashes, and the player must cash out before the crash to win the stake multiplied by the current value. Spribe has reported more than 42 million active users and around 350,000 bets per minute across more than 5,000 operators. It is not bingo, but several of the brands listed below carry it in the same lobby as their bingo rooms, and a player who walks into a bingo casino for the room often meets it first.

The ten licensed bingo casinos in the UK — compared

The ten brands below all hold an active remote casino operating licence issued by the Gambling Commission, and each one’s primary domain appears on the Commission’s public register as either an active or a white-label listing. The order is the order set out in the Commission’s register; the licence holder is the company the Commission holds to account, and the domain status tells you whether the brand runs on its own licence or another operator’s. Subject support — whether the brand carries a recognisable bingo rooms product alongside its slots — is a matter the register does not record and is therefore not asserted here for any operator; the brands are presented on what the Commission itself publishes.

The licence number itself follows a fixed shape: a six-digit account number, the letter R marking a remote (online) licence, another six digits, and a suffix indicating the licence type and sequence. Hillside’s bet365 number, for example, breaks down as 055149 for the Hillside account, R for remote, 331499 for the licence, and 004 for the fourth licence of this type on that account. Reading the number correctly is its own skill — and it is the one piece of information that lets you check the brand for yourself rather than taking the homepage’s word for it.

What the table does not show, and what the register does not tell you, is the size of the bingo rooms product behind the licence. Some of these brands run a dozen rooms at any given time of day, with chat hosts and progressive jackpots tied across a network. Others run a single lobby tab with a handful of Pragmatic Play or Virtue Fusion rooms, which is bingo in form but not in feel. The slots catalogue is similarly uneven: bet365 and Betway run into the low thousands of titles, kwiff runs a much tighter selection. None of that variation is in the Commission’s register, because the Commission’s job is to license the operator, not to grade its product.

Why a Gambling Commission licence still has to be the first test

The Gambling Act 2005, with the Gambling (Licensing and Advertising) Act 2014 sitting on top, makes a single test of whether a brand can legally take a UK deposit: it must hold a Commission-licence, regardless of where the company is based. A Curaçao, Maltese or Gibraltar licence is not a substitute for the Commission’s; the test is the Commission’s own register, full stop. As of 18 September 2026, the register’s domain list held 1065 active entries and 361 white-label entries, with 139 businesses holding an active remote casino operating licence in total. The numbers are large because the numbers are large — the market has consolidated under a handful of holding companies, with several brands sitting on a single licence. Virgin Games runs as a white-label of Gamesys Operations Limited; Ladbrokes, Coral and Gala Bingo run under LC International Limited. None of those shared licences is a weakness in itself, but it means the brand on the homepage and the company the Commission regulates can be two different names.

The statutory definition of bingo is unusually loose. The Gambling Act 2005 is the only piece of primary legislation on gambling that does not define its subject, stating simply that “bingo means any version of that game, irrespective of by what name it is described”. The Commission cites a 1978 Royal Commission description, “a lottery played as a game”, in which each player receives a set of numbers they have not chosen, for their stake. Under section 8 of the Act, bingo must be equal chance gaming: it cannot be played against a bank, and the chances of winning must be equally favourable to all participants. The 90-ball British format meets that test by construction; a slot that borrows the bingo mechanic does not, because the slot is played against a house edge built into the random number generator. That is why the slot side of a bingo casino sits under the online slot rules, and the room side does not.

What a Commission licence actually gives the player is a complaints route. A dispute over a payout, a confiscated bonus win, a self-exclusion failure — each is something the player can escalate to the Commission’s ADR (alternative dispute resolution) partner if the operator’s own customer service does not resolve it. An offshore brand, taking deposits from a UK customer without a Commission licence, gives the player nothing of the sort. Section 33 of the Gambling Act 2005 makes the provision of gambling to people in Great Britain without a licence an offence; the Commission disrupts illegal sites through cease-and-desist notices, search-engine delisting and payment and hosting referrals, but has no power to block ISPs. No penalty is aimed at the player, but what the player loses by going offshore is the only protection they ever had.

GAMSTOP and the wider responsible-gaming frame

Every online licence issued by the Commission carries GAMSTOP as a mandatory condition. Since 31 March 2020 no online operator may take a UK deposit without first checking the customer’s name, address and date of birth against the GAMSTOP register. A player who has self-excluded for six months, one year or five years cannot be on the platform at all; the exclusion cannot be cancelled early, and the operator cannot override it on a goodwill basis. That rule applies to a bingo casino’s slots lobby and to its bingo rooms without distinction.

The slot-specific protections matter even for a player who only ever buys a 10p room ticket. The Commission’s slot rules — the £5 maximum stake per game cycle for players aged 25 and over, in force from 9 April 2025, and the £2 cap for 18-24 players, in force from 21 May 2025 — apply to every slot title on a licensed site. The £2 stake for under-25s sits alongside the Government’s stated reasoning: 18-to-24 year olds have the highest average problem gambling score of any age group, with lower disposable income and ongoing neurological development given as the reasons. The 2.5-second minimum spin and the auto-play ban apply to the same slot titles; reverse withdrawals — the facility to put a withdrawal back into the playable balance — were banned from 31 October 2021. None of these protections applies to a bingo room ticket, which is treated as a separate product.

Deposits are governed separately. There is no state-set deposit or loss ceiling in UK law; instead, every operator must prompt a customer to set a financial limit before the first deposit, a rule that took effect on 31 October 2025. Financial vulnerability checks run at £150 net deposits in a rolling 30-day window from 28 February 2025, using public data only; wider financial risk assessments have been announced but are not yet in force. Anonymous play is not possible at a licensed site: name, address and date of birth must be verified before the first deposit or any play, a rule that has been in force since 7 May 2019. Credit cards have been banned for gambling since 14 April 2020, including credit cards routed through e-wallets.

If a player needs help beyond what the operator’s own tools provide, GamCare runs the National Gambling Helpline and GambleAware funds treatment and research; both are named on every licensed operator’s responsible-gaming page. The Commission’s own ADR route is the backstop when an operator’s customer service does not resolve a complaint.

Payouts and payment methods on a UK bingo casino

Payout speed on a bingo casino is set by two forces: the operator’s own withdrawal queue and the payment method’s settlement time. The fastest stack is a debit card paid out through Visa Fast Funds or similar, which can settle in minutes once the operator approves; the slowest is a bank transfer that takes two to three working days on top of the operator’s own processing time. E-wallets sit between, with PayPal and a handful of others typically clearing within 24 hours of approval, but the e-wallet must be in the player’s own name — a credit card funded e-wallet is not eligible, because credit cards are banned for gambling.

The reverse-withdrawal ban matters here too. Once a player requests a withdrawal, that money is out of the playable balance from the moment the request is made; the player cannot cancel the withdrawal to play the funds back. That rule was the Commission’s response to a feature that let players put a withdrawal back into the slots lobby in a moment of impulse; its effect on the payouts side is that the operator’s withdrawal queue is now the bottleneck, not the player’s decision-making.

The minimum deposit at most of these brands is £5 or £10, with the bingo rooms often priced per ticket from 1p upwards. The Commission does not set a deposit ceiling; the operator’s own responsible-gaming prompt sets the customer’s personal ceiling at the first deposit and can be revised downward at any time. A player who sets a £50 weekly limit at signup cannot deposit more than £50 across the rolling seven-day window without first raising the limit through the operator’s responsible-gaming panel.

The bonus side intersects with payouts in one specific way. When a bonus carries wagering requirements, the bonus balance and any winnings generated by it remain non-withdrawable until the requirements are cleared; cash bonuses and deposit bonuses are usually kept separate, and the wagering requirement applies to the bonus rather than to the deposit. A player reading the cashier page before depositing should look for the line that distinguishes withdrawable cash from bonus balance, because that line determines whether a winning session can be paid out immediately or sits in a bonus queue.

Bonuses under the 10x wagering cap

Since 19 December 2025 the Gambling Commission has capped wagering requirements at 10x, and has banned mixed-product bonuses — offers that grant casino spins in return for a sports bet, or bingo tickets in return for a slots deposit. The cap covers the bonus amount alone, not the deposit plus the bonus; a £20 bonus with a 10x requirement means £200 of qualifying turnover, not £400. The 10x ceiling is the highest permitted figure, and it is the figure most of the mainstream brands now use.

To set the scale of what that turns into in real play, take a typical £10 bingo-and-slots welcome bonus at the new 10x cap. The required turnover is £10 × 10 = £100. At a £0.10 slot spin (well below the £2 under-25 stake cap and a fifth of the £5 over-25 cap), that is £100 ÷ £0.10 = 1,000 spins. The Commission’s 2.5-second minimum spin speed makes that 1,000 × 2.5 = 2,500 seconds, or roughly 42 minutes of continuous play at the table stake. At a £0.20 spin the same bonus requires 500 spins and 21 minutes; at a £0.50 spin, 200 spins and 8 minutes. The band — somewhere between roughly 8 and 42 minutes of continuous slot play at common stake sizes — is what a £10 bonus now costs in time, assuming only the bonus amount is wagered.

The 10x cap does not make every bonus cheap. A bonus with a maximum cashout cap — the clause that limits how much of the bonus balance can be converted to withdrawable cash — can still make an offer poor value even at 10x. The honest test of any bonus is three figures: the bonus amount, the wagering multiple, and any maximum-cashout cap. An offer that publishes all three is one a player can price; an offer that hides the cap in a link four pages deep is one to avoid.

Mixed-product bonuses being banned closes a particular door that has been open for years. A sports free bet that came with 100 casino spins was, mechanically, a way to move the sportsbook’s marketing budget onto the casino side; from 19 December 2025 that route is closed. What remains is a single-product offer: a slots bonus for slots play, a bingo bonus for bingo play, a sports free bet for sports play. The clarity is the point of the rule, and a player comparing two offers can now compare them on the same axis without cross-product math in the way.

Operator-by-operator — what each brand brings

Paddy Power — the established bookmaker’s bingo tab

Paddy Power runs its gambling business through PPB Games Limited, account 39411, under remote casino operating licence 039411-R-319335-010, with Paddy Power listed on the Commission’s register as an active domain. The brand is the Irish bookmaker’s UK-facing operation, and the bingo tab is one of several products sitting beside the sportsbook, the casino and the live casino in a single wallet. The brand’s strength is the wallet: a player who has a Paddy Power sports account does not need a second deposit to try the bingo rooms, and the responsible-gaming limits apply across all four products at once. The weakness is that bingo is not the brand’s flagship, and the rooms catalogue is smaller than a dedicated bingo brand would offer. For a player who already has a sports account and wants to try bingo on the side, this is a sensible starting point. For a player whose primary product is bingo, the smaller catalogue will show.

kwiff — the smaller brand with a sharper product

kwiff runs through Eaton Gate Gaming Limited, account 44448, under licence 044448-R-323408-017, listed as an active domain. The brand is newer to the UK market than most of the others on this list, and the Commission’s registration is correspondingly younger — the 044 prefix on the account number places it in a more recent cohort than the 038 or 039 prefixes that sit behind the older established operators. The brand’s distinguishing offer has always been a surprise stake enhancement across the sportsbook, but the casino and bingo products have grown alongside it. For a player who likes a tighter product over a wider one, kwiff is a credible pick.

Betway — the casino-and-bingo double act

Betway Limited, account 39372, holds licence 039372-R-319367-029, with betway active on the register. The brand’s strength is the casino-and-bingo pairing: Betway has run a separate bingo product under the same licence for years, and the bingo rooms are integrated with the slots catalogue under one login. The brand also publishes payout times clearly on the cashier page, which is more than several of its competitors do. For a player who wants the casino, the slots and the bingo rooms all on one licence with one wallet, Betway is the clearest example of the format.

bet365 — the global giant’s UK rooms product

Hillside (UK Gaming) ENC, account 55149, holds licence 055149-R-331499-004, with bet365 active on the register. The 055 account number is the highest prefix on this list, which reflects the brand’s late arrival on the Commission’s own licensing regime rather than any weakness — bet365 has historically operated at scale through a Gibraltar licence and only moved onto a Commission-issued remote licence in the same way that other legacy brands did. The bingo product is one of several inside the bet365 app, and the rooms catalogue is wider than most. The trade-off is the app’s complexity: the lobby holds the sportsbook, the casino, the live casino, the bingo rooms, the poker room and several smaller products in tabbed form, and a player whose primary interest is bingo will spend the first week learning which tab is which.

Unibet — the Nordic-rooted multi-product site

Platinum Gaming Limited, account 45322, holds licence 045322-R-324275-019, with unibet.co.uk active on the register. The .co.uk domain is the giveaway: Unibet runs separate domains for some of its other markets, and the UK-facing brand is the one on the Commission’s register. The brand is the Nordic-rooted Kindred Group’s UK product, and the bingo rooms are one tab among several. For a player who values a brand that publishes the same product across multiple regulated markets, Unibet is one of the cleanest examples on this list.

888casino — the casino specialist’s casino

888 UK Limited, account 39028, holds licence 039028-R-319297-014, with 888casino active on the register. The 888 group has historically separated its casino, sports and poker brands across different domains, and 888casino is the casino-facing one. The bingo product is present in the lobby, but the brand’s centre of gravity is its slots and live casino catalogue. For a player who wants the casino first and the bingo rooms as a secondary product, 888casino is a credible pick; for a player whose main interest is bingo, the catalogue is not as deep as some of the bingo-first brands.

Virgin Games — the white-label rooms operator

Gamesys Operations Limited, account 38905, holds licence 038905-R-319430-022, with Virgin Games listed on the register as a white-label domain. A white-label listing means the brand trades under another operator’s licence rather than holding its own — Gamesys is the licence holder, Virgin Games is the consumer-facing brand. The Gamesys platform is well known in the UK bingo market and runs several of the larger rooms networks. For a player who plays Virgin Games as a rooms brand, the practical effect of the white-label structure is invisible: the responsible-gaming tools, the GAMSTOP check, the deposit limit and the ADR route all sit with Gamesys as the licence holder. The player sees the Virgin Games brand; the Commission holds Gamesys to account.

Midnite — the newer brand on a young licence

Dribble Media Limited, account 42647, holds licence 042647-R-321653-022, with midnite active on the register. The 042 account number places the brand in a more recent cohort than the legacy bookmakers, and the brand has built its identity around a tighter product and a faster app than several of its larger competitors. The bingo rooms are part of a smaller catalogue, and the brand’s strengths are its mobile app and its cleaner cashier. For a player who values a modern app over a deep rooms catalogue, Midnite is the most credible newer brand on this list.

Betfred — the high-street bookmaker’s online rooms

Petfre (Gibraltar) Limited, account 39544, holds licence 039544-R-319290-010, with Betfred active on the register. The Gibraltar-registered licence holder is a legacy of the 2014 Act’s transition period; the Commission has held a UK-facing licence on this account since the Act came into force, and Betfred’s online rooms product runs alongside the sportsbook, the casino and the lottery product. The brand’s high-street presence shows through in the rooms catalogue, which is closer to the dedicated bingo brands than several of the casino-led operators. For a player who has used Betfred on the high street and wants to find the same brand online, the rooms product is the easiest transition of any brand on this list.

BetVictor — the long-established casino’s rooms tab

BV Gaming Limited, account 39576, holds licence 039576-R-319370-028, with betvictor active on the register. BetVictor is one of the longer-established names in the UK online gambling market, and the Commission’s 039576 account is correspondingly older. The brand has run a casino-led product for years and added a rooms tab alongside it. For a player who has used BetVictor’s casino product and wants to try the rooms, the transition is straightforward; for a player whose primary product is the rooms, the catalogue sits behind the casino rather than leading the lobby.

What to take from the comparison

A bingo casino in the UK is, first, a licensed operator, and second, a product. The licence check is mechanical — the Commission’s register, the six-digit account number, the licence number, the domain status — and any brand that fails it is not in this comparison. The product check is harder, because the Commission does not grade rooms catalogues or slots lobbies, and the marketing page does not give a player the figures they would need to compare offers.

What the 10x wagering cap changes is the part of the offer that used to be hardest to price. A £10 bonus at 10x is £100 of qualifying turnover; a £50 bonus at 10x is £500; a £100 bonus at 10x is £1,000. Those are the bands, and they are now the bands across the whole licensed market. The mixed-product bonus ban closes a different door: a sports free bet with attached casino spins is no longer permitted, and a player comparing offers can compare them on the same axis without doing the cross-product math.

What the slot-side protections do is set a ceiling on how fast a session can move. The 2.5-second minimum spin and the auto-play ban together set a floor on the time a session will take; the £5 and £2 stake caps set a ceiling on how much a single spin can move the balance; the £150 net-deposit financial vulnerability check sets a point at which the operator has to ask the customer a question. None of these rules applies to the bingo room ticket, which sits under its own rules; every one of them applies to the slot that opens in the same lobby.

A player comparing these ten brands on what the Commission’s register actually shows is comparing them on the only axis the register can grade them on. The catalogue depth, the rooms experience, the chat hosts, the mobile app quality — these are the things a player learns from a free session, and they are the things a player cannot learn from a register. What the register gives, and what no other source gives as cleanly, is the licence. Everything else is a free spin on a free room.

Frequently asked questions

What is the difference between a bingo room and a bingo-linked slot?

A bingo room is a live multiplayer game in which a caller draws numbers from 1 to 90, players mark them on tickets, and prizes are paid from a fixed pool according to the patterns called (one line, two lines, full house). A bingo-linked slot is a single-player video slot whose bonus features borrow bingo patterns — line, two lines, full house — but pays from its own random number generator. The room is equal-chance gaming under section 8 of the Gambling Act 2005; the slot is online slot gaming under the Commission’s 2021-onwards rules and is subject to the £5 or £2 stake cap, the 2.5-second minimum spin and the auto-play ban.

Are there bingo slots available with no deposit required to try?

A licensed UK operator may offer a no-deposit bonus, but the slot’s stake limits and spin-time rules still apply, and any winnings from a no-deposit bonus are usually subject to the same wagering requirements as a deposit bonus. The practical effect is that a no-deposit slot session runs as a short, low-stake trial of the catalogue, with the bonus balance kept separate from withdrawable cash until the requirements are cleared.

What wagering terms usually apply to a bingo site’s slots bonus?

Since 19 December 2025 the Commission has capped wagering requirements at 10x the bonus amount, and has banned mixed-product bonuses that combine a sports free bet with casino spins. A £10 slots bonus at 10x means £100 of qualifying turnover, which at a £0.10 spin is 1,000 spins over roughly 42 minutes at the 2.5-second minimum spin speed; at a £0.50 spin it is 200 spins over roughly 8 minutes. Maximum-cashout caps still apply on many bonuses and should be read alongside the multiple.

Is there a dedicated app for bingo casinos, or only a browser site?

All ten brands in this comparison offer a mobile path, but the form varies. Betway and bet365 run a single native app that holds the bingo lobby and the slots catalogue behind one sign-in; Paddy Power and Betfred run a tabbed browser wrapper rather than a true app; Midnite and kwiff ship as a Progressive Web App installed by saving the URL to the home screen. The browser path works on every device; the native app is faster on older phones but takes a tile of storage.

How is a bingo casino’s payout speed compared with a standard slots site?

The slot withdrawal queue on a bingo casino is the same as on a slots-only site, because the Commission treats the two products identically for payout purposes. A debit card paid out through Visa Fast Funds can settle in minutes once the operator approves; PayPal and similar e-wallets typically clear within 24 hours; bank transfers take two to three working days on top of the operator’s processing. The reverse-withdrawal ban means the bottleneck is the operator’s queue, not the player’s decision.

Must a bingo casino be licensed by the Gambling Commission to accept UK players?

Yes. Under the Gambling Act 2005, with the Gambling (Licensing and Advertising) Act 2014 sitting on top, any operator taking a UK deposit must hold a Commission licence, regardless of where the company is based; a Curaçao, Maltese or Gibraltar licence is not a substitute. As of 18 September 2026 the Commission’s register held 139 active remote casino operating licences and 1065 active domain entries, with 361 white-label entries trading under another licence. Providing gambling to people in Great Britain without a Commission licence is an offence under section 33 of the Act.

Prepared by the rtpslotsguide editorial staff.