BASC has launched a Roving Reception to give members in London the chance to meet each other, access to their local BASC team and the opportunity to visit premium sites related to shooting and fieldsports. A series of drinks receptions will be held in the Capital in the coming months. Read more…
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…
A group of sporting and land management organisations have voiced their concerns over a number of land reform proposals in an open letter to Dr Aileen McLeod, the Minister responsible for Land Reform in Scotland. These include the removal of the exemption for business rates for shooting and deerstalking. The Read more…
Bookings are now being taken for a fundraising clay shoot which promises to be a highlight of the spring. The 2015 Countryside Clay Shoot will be held at the prestigious Six Mile Bottom shooting estate in Cambridgeshire on Saturday 23rd May 2015. The charity shoot will raise money for the Read more…
Women are being invited to spend International Women’s Day networking and clay shooting at an event run by the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC). The event will be held at Doveridge Clay Sports Club, Derbyshire, on 6th March. Talks will be given by Victoria Knowles-Lacks, founder of the Read more…
More than 130 BASC members quizzed a panel of senior politicians on shooting at a meeting in the Grand Committee Room of the House of Commons. The panel included: Lord de Mauley, the Defra Minister responsible for shooting Angela Smith MP, the Labour shadow Minister responsible for shooting Roger Williams Read more…
A brace of pheasants was presented to the Defra Secretary of State, Elizabeth Truss MP, at the Houses of Parliament as the game shooting seasons come to a close this weekend. Presenting the oven-ready birds were Jose Souto, game chef and senior chef lecturer at Westminster Kingsway College, and Annette Read more…
BASC has written to the Home Office and the Northern Ireland Department of Justice to request their support for the removal of Visitors’ Firearm and Shotgun Permit fees. Visitors from within the EU coming to the UK to shoot currently have to pay a £12 fee or £60 group fee Read more…
Taste of Game has teamed up with DB Foods and supermarket Aldi to stock oven-ready pheasants under the Brookfield Game brand. The Specialbuy pheasant will be available in Aldi stores nationwide from today (Thursday 15th January). To help customers get the most from this lean, rich meat, the packaging will Read more…
