With just one week until polling day in the General Election BASC is urging its members and everyone who shoots to check their election candidates’ views on shooting before casting a vote.
The Value of Shooting for personal and social wellbeing – findings from new research have been published in a BASC infographic
The UK’s largest shooting organisation, the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC) has teamed up with premier country sports retailer Orvis to host a South West members’ social evening in Sherborne on 24th April. The evening will provide members with the opportunity to both socialise and get expert advice Read more…
The UK’s largest shooting organisation, the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC), has welcomed a firearms licensing fees order which has today been laid before Parliament. The order contains Government proposals to increase the fee for the grant of a shotgun certificate from £50 to £79.50 with proportionate increases in other fees. The order will bring the new fees into effect from April 6 2015.
1. Why are fees going up?
Certificates fees have not increased since 2001. BASC has worked successfully to ensure that the increases are fair and reasonable and strongly resisted proposals to introduce unjustified higher fees which would have been a tax on shooting.
BASC has noted the release of the Labour animal welfare policy document “Labour: Protecting Animals”.
A major project to protect a threatened population of water voles has been completed thanks to close co-operation between the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC) and the Dorset Wildlife Trust.
Gamekeepers, beaters and pickers-up from across the UK are getting ready for one of the main events of the gundog calendar – Crufts 2015. The UK’s largest shooting organisation, the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC), will host the gamekeepers’ classes at Crufts. Gamekeepers, owners of working gundogs, gundog Read more…
