BASC media
BASC’s media team are responsible for representing shooting and the organisation to the press. We also work to inform, educate and entertain BASC members and non-members through a range of channels.
What we do
Our media team work alongside BASC regional representatives and subject-matter experts to provide informed commentary and interviews on key issues, for both national and local media outlets.
Find out more about what we do below and how we are constantly striving to support shooting, our members and the rural communities by giving them a voice.
If you have a story or potential feature, please email media@basc.org.uk – we would love to hear from you.
For journalist enquiries, contact our press office during office hours on 01244 573 052, or outside office hours on 07970 096 554.
Latest BASC features
Bisterne Estate: a shoot, a farm and a wetland recovery
How a decade of targeted predator control and carefully timed grazing brought breeding lapwing and redshank back to Bisterne Estate’s wet meadows.
The most important thing you can do this month
The government’s review of game shooting closes on 1 November. One email is all it takes. If you haven’t sent yours yet, today is the day to act, says Conor O’Gorman.
Ponsonby Farms: a day beating for wild grey partridge
BASC’s Sam Walker joins the beaters at Ponsonby Farms in Gloucestershire to see a wild grey partridge recovery, built on shoot management, in action.
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‘Call of the Marsh’ premieres in Parliament
Cross-party MPs and peers joined regulators, conservation bodies and wildfowlers to see ‘Call of the Marsh’, a new documentary from BASC and the Origins Foundation.
BASC request to extend game shooting review rejected
Defra has rejected BASC’s request for more time to respond to its call for evidence on game shooting, leaving participants fewer than three weeks to make their voices heard.