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Facts and figures

We employ over 100 staff, including many scientists, and run over 60 research projects - many in collaboration with universities supervising PhD students. We have an annual income of £6.8 million mostly coming from members, donations, fundraising events, sponsorship and charitable trusts. The re...

Volunteering

By volunteering some of your time, you can help us with our work in game conservation and management. This time can be given to help us with our research, helping a county group with its event organisation and management or helping us fundraise. If you have any particular skills this could be ben...

Advice & Training

No change to Scottish General Licences in 2023 NatureScot have announced that General Licences in 2023 will remain the same as those issued on 1st January 2022. It is important that everyone reads and understands the relevant licences for the control of pest bird species (GLs 01, 02 & 03/2023...

The Fox Appeal

If we want to safeguard the benefits of good habitat and winter food, predation control can have an important role. Thanks to the help of our supporters, we have designed, tested and proven the effectiveness of practical tools such as the mink raft and breakaway fox snare, which are now commonpl...

2018 Game Appeal

Will you help us to drive change? By Ian Coghill, GWCT Chairman We know that something needs to be done, and so do you. Last season, the question I was asked most was ‘when is something going to change?’. Sometimes it was about the numbers of birds released, the rise of bigger shoots or the lost...

Student opportunities

The Research and Advisory Departments of the GWCT have a long-running association with teaching in UK universities. Although we are not a higher education institute (HEI) and therefore cannot award a degree to students, we can and do supervise students at three levels in the University system. Un...

General Licences for 2020

Following last year’s General Licence fiasco, Defra are now reviewing when people will and won’t be allowed to control pest species in England in 2020. We are taking action now We're asking if you will help fund our challenging programme of work to ensure that those in charge listen not only to t...

Reintroducing water voles to the River Dore

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Changes in partridge numbers