Game and Gamekeeping
The BASC Game and Deer team provide expert and practical advice to help you develop your shoot and your shooting. Join us now.
For specific advice please contact the Game and Deer Department on 01244 573019 or email
The BASC Game and Deer department offer a range of benefits and services to members. The top five game and gamekeeping services offered by the team are:
- To promote high standards and good game conservation practice throughout game shooting and gamekeeping.
- To provide advice on all aspects of game, habitat and shoot management through bespoke publications and the provision of expert advice.
- To work with, and provide advice to, UK and European government agencies on aspects of game shooting and game management.
- To provide shooters and gamekeepers with professional full-time representation.
- To ensure that gamekeeping and game shooting activities are proportionally treated within exotic disease planning and disease outbreak management.
Gamekeepers’ Welfare Trust STAG Training Course
This half day course has been specifically designed for gamekeepers ghillies and stalkers and those with management responsibilities within the gamekeeping profession and shooting community.
The course covers 3 sessions:
- Professional Journey
- Mental Health & coping Strategies
- Team Motivation
Latest news
Organisations call on Michael Gove to make key changes to general licence system
Letter asks environment secretary to consider a number of recommendations for resolving the current general licence “chaos”.
BASC welcomes firearms fees freeze
Home Office says annual review will not take place because of delays in implementing intended online licensing system and the need to review arrangements for police medical checks with applicants’ GPs
Reinstate general licences as a matter of urgency, BASC tells Defra
BASC is calling on Defra to reinstate the general licences that were withdrawn by Natural England last month as a matter of “absolute urgency”.
Events & Training Courses
May 2019
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17 May 2019 - 20 May 2019 |
Deer Stalking Certificate 1 - Knepp Estate, West Sussex **Fully Booked** |
| Knepp Estate, West Grinstead, Horsham |
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17 May 2019 - 20 May 2019 |
Deer Stalking Certificate 1 - Lady's Wood Shooting School, Chipping Sodbury |
| Lady’s Wood, Mapleridge Lane, Horton |
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20 May 2019 |
BASC Members Birmingham Proof House Tour **FULLY BOOKED** |
| The Birmingham Proof House Museum, Banbury Street, Birmingham |
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23 May 2019 |
Airgun Club Safety Officer - Field Sport UK, Leicestershire |
| Field Sports UK, Melbourne road, Lount |
BASC Membership
- £10 million liability insurance for your shooting
- £250,000 legal expenses cover for firearms appeals
- £50,000 personal accident cover
- Free firearms technical helpline
- Free legal liability helpline
- Exclusive offers
Glynn Evans
Head of game and deer management
01244 573 019 email
Glynn is head of game and deer management. Before coming to BASC he was a fulltime keeper for over 25 years working on estates in Gloucestershire and Norfolk including over 20 years on the Sandringham Estate in Norfolk.