Dornoch & Cromarty Firths Wildfowling Association
For any enquiries regarding membership or any other questions you may have for the club, please contact them via the email address provided below.
The Dornoch & Cromarty Firths Wildfowling Association (DCFWA) was formed over 30 years ago to protect the interests of foreshore wildfowlers on the Northern Firths. Whilst BASC, to which the Club is affiliated, does an excellent job in this regard throughout Scotland, local eyes, and ears of interested and committed wildfowlers are a useful provider of information.
The DCFWA’s members monitor the migrating wildfowl populations from year to year with their experience, on a daily basis, leading to an accurate and actual assessment of the fluctuating fortunes of quarry and non-quarry intertidal species. As wildfowling is free to all shotgun certificate holders in the intertidal area in Scotland subject to the laws of access, the Club has no real extra benefits or ‘privileges’ to membership. However, there is considerable security and satisfaction in being among 100+ like-minded souls who love, appreciate, and feel responsible for the wildfowling grounds that they value so highly. In any discussion with other interested parties, the voice of 100+ members represents a numerically powerful faction, and our Club badge is perceived locally to represent a responsible individual pursuing his hobby. The club has recently purchased 240 acres of Dornoch Firth foreshore. This will allow the club to maintain our ability to shoot wildfowl on the Firth.
The DCFWA consists of a committee of 10 honorary officers, including Chairman, Secretary, Treasurer and Social Secretary. We aim to hold six-monthly committee meetings with our AGM being held in August each year. The Club’s committee believes that it is vital to nurture and encourage wildfowlers of the future and so provides free membership (including full BASC membership) to anyone under the age of 21 who wishes to join the Club. There are 2 categories of senior membership, Full Club including BASC subscription through DCFWA, and Associate membership for those who are already individual members of BASC, or through another affiliated club.
Our sole fundraising effort involves an annual raffle, where all members receive 25 tickets at £1 each, to sell or to buy for themselves. This revenue, and a few kind donations, ensures that the Club has a small annual surplus after minimal running costs – mainly the expenses surrounding mail shots, printing, and such like. A popular annual dinner for all members is held in February just before the foreshore wildfowling season finishes.