2020

The brand new BASIS Game Management course is aimed at all individuals who have responsibility for managing a shoot, including head keepers, singlehanded keepers, estate managers, land agents, landowners, shoot managers and shoot captains.

As 2020 draws to a close, it would be easily to only reflect on the challenges we have all faced. As a charity, times have not been easy and you will have seen that early in the lockdown, we forecast a £1.4m shortfall in income.

Defra has at last published all the details of the three new general licences for the control of certain bird species effective from 1st January 2021, plus its “standard licence conditions for trapping wild birds” under these licences.

Ahead of the debate that is scheduled in Westminster on the future of driven grouse shooting in England, the GWCT have prepared a series of information sheets on key issues that are the main areas of disagreement on this contentious topic.

Our 2020 Gun Draw and Grand Grouse Draw may both now have closed, but we have three brand new shoot raffles available to enter online now.

As we reach the end of what has been a most unusual and challenging year, here are the ten most-read GWCT blogs from 2020.

The GWCT has produced a survey to capture the detail of General Licences in Wales. As with the previous consultation, we will collate and anonymise the information before putting it into a report. The closing date for our survey is 10th January.