The result, stated plainly
We hold deposit-floor records for 133 of 139 British-licensed casino brands. The lowest figure any of them publishes is £5. Not one states £1, £2 or £3. 23 state £5, 95 state £10 and 15 state more than £10. 6 publish no minimum at all.
Search demand for the phrase is real and steady — roughly 1,300 a month for the £1 variant, with several hundred more across £2 and £3 forms. A page answering it with a list would rank better than this one. It would also require naming brands that do not meet the criterion, and the only thing this site claims is that its facts are checkable.
Why other pages list them anyway
Three explanations cover almost every case. The first is an expired promotion: a £1 entry offer ran, the page was never updated, and the offer is now the deposit floor in name only. The second is a payment-route minimum being presented as a site-wide one — a specific provider may accept less than the casino's stated floor, which is a different claim. The third is that the site is not licensed in Britain at all.
That last one matters more than the other two. A casino outside the Gambling Commission regime can set any floor it likes, because none of the conditions apply to it: no mandated fund protection, no national self-exclusion, no free adjudicator, no regulator to complain to. What a UK licence covers sets out what is being given up.
What the real floor is, and who offers it
£5, at 23 brands. Those brands are listed here with the licensed company beside each one, and the licence column is worth reading: a low floor travels with a platform, so several of them are the same business.
Whether a very small deposit is worth making
Two figures decide it. Fees first: where a charge exists it is usually on a pay-by-phone route, and the published rates reach 15% of the deposit — proportionally crushing on a small sum. Then the exit: 31 brands in our records set a minimum withdrawal higher than their minimum deposit, so a very small balance can be unable to leave until it grows.
What we could not verify
Whether any brand operates a lower floor on a specific payment route without publishing it as the site minimum. Our records hold the stated site-wide figure, and a method-specific minimum below it would not appear. We also cannot rule out a current promotion offering a £1 entry — promotions are not something this site tracks, deliberately, because they decay faster than anything else on a casino.
Related: the £5 brands · what the phone route charges · the full deposit distribution · GAMSTOP and unlicensed sites.
£1 minimum deposit casino: questions readers ask
8 answers
01 Are there any £1 minimum deposit casinos in the UK?
Not among the 139 British-licensed brands in our records. Every one that publishes a minimum sets it at £5 or above: 23 at £5, 95 at £10 and 15 higher. 6 publish no minimum at all, which is not the same as a £1 one.
02 Why do so many pages list £1 deposit casinos then?
Usually one of three things: a promotion that has expired, a specific payment route with its own lower floor rather than a site-wide minimum, or a site that is not UK-licensed. The first two are out of date, the third is a different market with none of the protections a Gambling Commission licence carries.
03 What is the lowest deposit I can actually make?
£5, at 23 of the brands here. That is the real floor of the licensed British market, and the brands offering it are listed on our £5 minimum deposit page along with the company behind each one.
04 Is a low deposit floor a sign of a good casino?
It tells you who the brand is aimed at, not how it behaves. What it does reliably indicate is which company set it, because the floor is a platform decision — sister brands on one licence usually share the same figure.
05 Could a £1 deposit even be worth making?
Consider the fee first. A percentage charge on a pay-by-phone route — up to 15% in the fee texts we hold — costs proportionally far more on a tiny deposit, and 31 brands set a minimum withdrawal higher than their minimum deposit, so a very small balance can be unable to leave.
06 Do you publish a £1 casino list anyway?
No. Building one would mean naming brands that do not meet the criterion, and this site's only claim is that its facts are checkable. An empty table with an explanation is a worse page commercially and the only honest one.
07 What about no-minimum-deposit casinos?
6 brands in our records publish no minimum deposit figure. That is a gap in disclosure rather than a promise of a penny deposit — the payment provider's own floor will still apply, and we do not present a missing figure as a low one.
08 Where does this figure come from?
Each operator's own published terms, read alongside the Gambling Commission register data dated 31st July 2026. They are the operators' stated figures rather than deposits we have made, and every brand page marks them as stated rather than tested.