BASC South East

Shooters will have a chance to do their bit for conservation ? by taking part in a fundraising clay shoot. The UK?s largest shooting organisation, the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC), will host the shoot at Catton Hall, Frodsham, Cheshire, on 23rd May. The format will be a testing 100 sporting bird day. Money raised will be spent on carrying out conservation work in Cheshire as part of BASC?s Green Shoots initiative.

Gamekeepers and shoot organisers from across the UK can now get their hands on an invaluable directory, containing contact details of more than 1,000 shooting-related businesses.

Agriculture and forestry businesses can now apply for funding towards the cost of BASC Shotgun coaching and game meat hygiene qualifications

Gamekeepers, shoot beaters and pickers-up from across the UK are counting down to one of the highlights of the gundog calendar – Crufts 2010 – where they will be showing their working dogs in the gamekeeping classes.

Eighty eight game and wildlife management students from nine colleges in England and Wales will get together to determine who is the best shot at the first gamekeeping student clay shoot challenge to be organised by the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC).

The search is on to find the sharpest-shooting gamekeeper in the UK.

The British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC) will co-sponsor Feast East 2010, the regional food festival for the East of England, on 5th and 6th March 2010. Feast East will be held at Chilford Hall, near Linton in South-East Cambridgeshire.

A Brussels-based wildlife expert visited the head office of the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC) near Wrexham to share his knowledge with staff. Gabor von Bethlenfalvy, conservation project manager for the Federation of Associations for Hunting and Conservation of the EU (FACE), met staff at BASC?s offices at Marford Mill, Rossett.