Wild food
Healthy, packed with flavour and easy to cook, wild game meat is the ultimate free-range ingredient for your table.
What is wild food
Game as food is indisputably one of the key justifications for game shooting. Therefore, promoting the benefits of eating more game as a sustainable and healthy alternative to farmed meat is an important part of BASC’s work.
To deliver our vision, we bring together partners from shooting and food production/marketing organisations to ensure game meat is recognised as a healthy alternative protein source.
We also support other sectors of the food industry through sponsorship, particularly where we can encourage adding value to game such as charcuterie, butchery and pie making.
Shooters need to promote and eat game meat to ensure the future of shooting. This means eating what you shoot and sharing it with others, perhaps by gifting game to friends and family, or cooking a dish which features game meat.Â
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Wild food features

Book your free BASC shoot visit and small game meat hygiene training
Regional officer Ryan Darby gives an update on BASC shoot visits, which are free to BASC members and now incorporate small game meat hygiene courses.

Vote for the Eat Game Awards Champion of Champions
Cast your vote in the 2026 Eat Game Awards and help decide who will be crowned this year’s Champion of Champions.

Welsh catering students learn about game from field to fork
Catering students at a South Wales college learnt about working with game from field to fork at a recent BASC introductory day.
Game handling guide
The latest news from BASC

Grant support returns for deer carcass chiller trailers
The Farming Equipment and Technology Fund 2026 will include grant support for chiller trailers suitable for storing deer carcasses.

BASC welcomes removal of deactivated firearms notification requirement
If you possess or are transferring the ownership of deactivated firearms, you are no longer required to notify the police.

BASC criticises Natural England restrictions weeks after High Court ruling
BASC has criticised Natural England after it announced further restrictions on the release of pheasants and red-legged partridges near protected sites in England for the 2026 season.

