Welcome
Founded in 1908, The British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC), formerly the Wildfowlers' Association of Great Britain and Ireland (WAGBI), is the largest fieldsports organisation in the UK. It campaigns to protect and promote country shooting and conservation.
Country shooting includes live quarry shooting of game, wildfowl and the management of pest species.
Today it has 148,000 members and employs over 100 full-time staff across the UK.
BASC’s headquarters is in Rossett, near Chester and throughout the UK support, help and guidance is provided by full-time regional directors centred on four English regions - the North, Central, South East and South West. There is also the Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland offices. A Council is elected by the Association's members and are responsible for the strategy and management of BASC.
BASC's aims
- To build all-party support for shooting sports.
- To secure balanced coverage in the media.
- To ensure our members have the opportunity and the means to go shooting.
- To promote high standards of conduct in the field and publish a number of codes of practice covering many aspects of firearms safety and use, the conduct of shooting sports, pest control and animal welfare.
- BASC members are expected to obey the law and to observe codes of practice.
More details on all of the above can be found on the BASC website at BASC.org.uk
What's new
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BASC statement on RSPB Birdcrime report
BASC has issued the following response to the RSPB's 2017 Birdcrime report.
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Minister 'fundamentally wrong' to impose shooting ban, BASC tells BBC
BASC has told the BBC that Wales’ Environment Minister Hannah Blythyn AM was "fundamentally wrong" to impose a ban on shooting on public land.
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BASC seeks legal advice on pheasant ban
The UK's largest shooting organiation, the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC), is seeking advice about the possibility of a legal challenge to a decision by Natural Resources Wales (NRW) to ban shooting on public land.
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BASC statement on decision by NRW to ban shooting on public land
BASC is astounded that the position of Natural Resources Wales (NRW), an evidence-based organisation, can be changed by the radical petitioning of extremist groups.
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Shooting 'essential to rural life', say Lib Dems at Conference
The value of shooting and fishing to the environment was highlighted at a rural reception hosted by the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC) and the Angling Trust at the Liberal Democrats’ 2018 Conference in Brighton.
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