The next annual GWCT Game Conference, GAME 2025, is taking at GWCT headquarters, Burgate Manor, Fordingbridge SP6 1EF, on Tuesday 18th March 2025.
The conference is jam-packed with informative, topical talks from an excellent range of guest speakers and GWCT experts, and ticket sales support the vital research and essential work of the GWCT.
Designed to inform and promote good game management, Game 2025 is aimed at everyone involved in the sector and will be of interest to landowners, sporting agents, game managers, gamekeepers, game farmers, fieldsports enthusiasts and everyone in between, all are welcome.
Lunch is provided and there will be plenty of opportunity to catch up with friends and peers from the shooting and game management community.
Don’t miss this fantastic informative event and remember, by attending you’ll be supporting the essential work of the GWCT. Tickets are available and cost £55.
There will be ample free parking available, including disabled spaces.
Lunch and refreshments are provided, with dietary requirements catered for.
For more information, contact Lizzie Herring on 01425 651013 or lherring@gwct.org.uk.
Programme
- 09:30 Coffee and Registration
- 10:00 Welcome and Introduction Sir Jim Paice, GWCT Chairman
- 10:10 Lowland Gamebird Policy update – Dr Roger Draycott, GWCT Director of Advisory
- 10:30 How vets are helping the sector with a focus on Trusted Game – Dr Mark Elliot, South Downs Veterinary Consultancy
- 10:50 How we can all play a part in saving game shooting – Tim Weston, National Gamekeepers Organisation
- 11:10 Morning Coffee Break
- 11:40 What Guns are really looking for on shoot days and beyond – Digby Taylor, Guns on Pegs
- 12:00 How shoots can adapt to the current financial market – Nick Watson, Strutt and Parker
- 12:20 An introduction to The Country Food Trust – SJ Hunt, The Country Food Trust
- 12:30 Lunch
- 13:30 Parasite management in gamebirds – Jeremy Marsh, Elanco
- 13:50 Lowland Gamebird Research update – Dr Rufus Sage, GWCT Head of lowland gamebird research
- 14:10 Afternoon Tea Break
- 14:40 How technology can help game managers and conservationists – Dr Dave Butler, Perdix Wildlife Supplies
- 15:00 How we can provide evidence of best practice and better demonstrate self-regulation – Matt Goodall, GWCT Head of Education and Advisor
- 15:20 Summing Up – Dr Roger Draycott, GWCT Director of Advisory
- 15:30 Finish
The event is kindly sponsored by:
