William Hill review
William Hill takes players from Great Britain under a UKGC licence held by WHG (International) Limited, account 039225-R-319373-014. The record below was read on and gives: the offer as published and its wagering, the deposit methods open to UK accounts, and the questions the public record leaves open.
On this page — contents
- Welcome offer
- 200 free spins when you deposit & stake £10
- Smallest qualifying deposit
- £10
- Wagering
- 10x
- Bonus code
- WHV200
- UKGC licence account
- 039225-R-319373-014
- Launched
- 1934
In short
What the record shows in its favour
- Sportsbook on the same account as the casino
- UK accounts get 6 listed deposit routes, Debit card and PayPal among them
- 4 of the 6 British review sites we census have a page on it
What it does not do, or does not say
- A withdrawal from the welcome spins waits on 10x wagering
- Spins without a cash match make up the whole welcome offer
- The code has to be typed in at sign-up, or the offer is gone
Checked against 15 points
William Hill is recorded against the same 15 points as every other brand on this site, set out on how we rate; 15 of them have a public source, and the rest are marked as not published rather than counted against the brand.
- The company named on the licence
- The licence account number
- Whether the licence covers Great Britain
- The year the brand launched
- The welcome offer, worded as the operator words it
- The smallest qualifying deposit
- Whether the offer carries wagering at all
- The wagering multiple, where there is one
- How many free spins the offer includes
- The currency the offer is stated in
- A dated source for the offer
- Whether there are live dealer tables in the British lobby
- Whether a sportsbook sits on the same account
- How many established British review sites list the brand
- Whether our link to the brand is a commercial one
The licence, and who holds it
William Hill runs on licence account 039225-R-319373-014, held by WHG (International) Limited and covering bingo, casino, gambling software, betting on real events, betting on virtual events and pool betting. The register records ownership of William Hill with Evoke plc (acquired July 2022).
The licence is the one claim on this William Hill page you can settle yourself in under a minute: the UK Gambling Commission register is public, and the account number above is the whole search term (how to do it on a phone).
It is also the claim that matters most, because William Hill could hand that licence back — and what happens to a balance when an operator does has its own page (read it before you keep money in an account).
The welcome offer, and what it costs
The offer reads: “200 free spins when you deposit & stake £10”. Wagering is 10x, so winnings from the offer have to be staked that many times before they can be withdrawn. The smallest qualifying deposit is £10. The spins part is 200 free spins. A code is required at sign-up: WHV200. Registering without it forfeits the offer, and support will not usually add it afterwards. These figures come from aceodds.com, a listing that publishes the operator’s own terms alongside the figure, re-read on . A Great Britain licensee cannot attach more than 10× wagering to a new-customer offer (LCCP social responsibility code 5.1.1, in force from ) — which is why no higher figure appears anywhere on this site (what the cap changed).
Paying in and getting paid
The methods William Hill publishes for UK accounts are Debit card, PayPal, Apple Pay, Paysafecard, bank transfer and shop deposit. Apple Pay appears on the William Hill deposit side only; it is not a withdrawal rail, and the money comes back by card or bank transfer instead (why the rails differ). PayPal is the one method on the William Hill list that usually returns money to the same place it came from. No withdrawal time is published as a figure by William Hill, so none is printed here either.
Where it stands on this site
William Hill appears on 11 of the ranking pages on this site, highest at number 1 on the extra spins page. Where William Hill stands is worked out from the criteria of the page it stands on, not from what an operator pays (the method, in order). Of the 6 established UK review sites checked for this pool, 4 list William Hill: casinosites.co.uk, freebets.com, gambling.com, whichbingo.co.uk.
What this page does not claim
This page carries no score out of ten: a score here would come from a position in a list, and this is not a list. Fields with no public source are left out rather than estimated — for William Hill, live dealer tables are not confirmed in the UK lobby. Payout speed, RTP by game, complaint volumes and support response times are not published by this operator in a form that can be quoted, so none of them appears above. Links to the casino are affiliate links; what that pays for and what it does not change is set out on how we rate and in the data notice.
Written and maintained by the i-phonecasino.co.uk desk. Licence status comes from the UK Gambling Commission public register; bonus figures, wagering and withdrawal rules come from the operator’s own published terms, read on the dates printed beside each figure. Where a number is not published, this site leaves the field out rather than estimating it.
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