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
Game On cookery competition
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Wild food features

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.

Finalists announced for 2026 Eat Game Awards
The Eat Game Awards celebrate the chefs, butchers, retailers and rising stars bringing British wild game to the table.

A Game Christmas
Try our three fabulous game recipes by Rachel Green this Christmas, perfect for any table over the festive season.
Game handling guide
The latest news from BASC

Conservation in action – Winter 2025/26
Read our latest update on BASC conservation projects, including how you, your shoot or club can get involved.

BASC’s Conor O’Gorman wins Media Contributor of the Year award
BASC’s Dr Conor O’Gorman was named Media Contributor of the Year at the NEC Birmingham over the weekend.

Don’t miss BASC Scotland’s Gamekeeping and Wildlife Management Day
Book your place for BASC Scotland’s Gamekeeping and Wildlife Management Day, being held at Scone Palace on 23 March 2026.

