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At the end of March, BASC south east attended their first major game fair of 2012. The Kent Game and Equine festival was a successful event for BASC.

Following the success of this year?s course, we will be running further training days in
2012. The course will be made up of six individual days and will cover beating and
picking-up, and also working tests. The introductory day in March will be open to any
breed of gundog from the age of eight months and will cover all aspects of gundog
work. Suitable for either novice handlers or experienced handlers with a novice dog, this day will consist of a lecture, demonstration and practical work.

Farmers in Northern Ireland are being urged to take advantage of a pest control scheme launched by the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC) and the Ulster Farmers? Union (UFU).

Journalists are invited to join chefs from Cornwall, staff from Country Sports South West (CSSW) and Cornwall Food & Drink for a chefs? clay shooting challenge on the 19th March at Colquite House, Washaway, near Bodmin.

BASC is calling on everyone involved in shooting and land management to respond to a European Commission survey on the management of invasive alien species.

On Saturday 24th March 2012 the Larchfield Estate, Annahilt in County Down will host the 2012 BASC NI annual gundog test.

Two shoot development days designed to help small shoots make the most of their shooting ground will take place on 31st March in Wiltshire and 21st April in Devon.

The Midland team had a busy two days on the new extended BASC village at the British Shooting Show, Newark Showground in February. Saturday was particularly packed and our team of volunteers hardly had any time to look around the show themselves! This show is becoming very popular; totally under cover in huge heated halls, it is protected from the vagaries of the weather.

As part of the Taste of Game campaign the BASC Midlands team and the School of Artisan Food have joined forces to promote game meat as a healthy alternative. Based in the heart of Sherwood Forest on the Welbeck Estate in north Nottinghamshire, the shcool has newly refurbished training rooms especially equipped to teach breadmaking, cheesemaking, brewing, butchery, charcutierie and preserving.