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  • PepsiCo FAB

    The PepsiCo FAB (Farming Arable Biodiversity) project aims to demonstrate how productive agriculture does not need to suffer for good environmental stewardship. The project uses what was learned during the EU Interreg PARTRIDGE project (2016-2023) and is aiming to scale up its approach. To demons...

  • Megan Lock

    Farmland Biodiversity Advisor Megan facilitates two large Farmer Clusters, undertaking ecological surveys, planning and overseeing habitat connection, creation and management, and provides training and events. She also delivers GWCT Advisory services and manages several individual client portfoli...

  • Niamh McHugh

    Head of Farmland Ecology Unit Niamh is Head of Farmland Ecology Research at the GWCT. Much of her research focuses on landscape-scale farmer collaboration and the potential benefits this may have on farming systems (e.g. regenerative agriculture), farmland birds (e.g. barn owls), and wider ecosys...

  • Our trustees

    The Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust's patron is HM The King and its president is the Marquess of Salisbury. The Board of Trustees has overall responsibility for the Trust and provides us with a breadth of experience and expertise in the countryside and wildlife conservation. Chairman The ...

  • Predation control

    The protection of wild game by gamekeepers has by tradition involved the control of those predators that kill gamebirds or rob their nests. While some ecologists up to the late 1970s believed predation losses to be of little or no consequence to prey populations our experimental studies have demo...

  • Job opportunities

    Our head office is in Fordingbridge, Hampshire, but many posts are based at regional offices and project sites across the UK. To view the details of each vacancy click on the job title. Membership Administrator To discuss these or other vacancies contact email our human resources department at ...

  • Nature Recovery Appeal

    Donate Here → “Our countryside’s future rests in the hands of those who care for it everyday — without support for our farmers, nature recovery hangs in the balance.”- Dr. Alastair Leake, Director of Policy, GWCT   Your support is vital. We’ve shown that nature recovery is possible on working fa...

  • The Untold Story Appeal

    The public aren’t being told about the vital work being done in the British countryside. You can change that today. You don’t hear much about the good work done by farmers and land managers. How many people in our towns and cities know about the conservation work being done on farms every single...

  • Who we are

    Our people Passionate and resourceful. Loyal and positive. Our shared passion to produce a thriving countryside rich in wildlife and game runs throughout the Trust. We’re proud that everyone at the Trust upholds these principles. Our organisation would not have been able to stay at the cutting ed...

  • Our Projects

    Below are examples of some of the long running projects we're involved in: Big Farmland Bird Count > PARTRIDGE Project > SAMARCH Project > Waders for Real > We also run three long-term monitoring programmes, the Partridge Count Scheme, National Gamebag Census and Sussex Sttudy, wh...

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