The Game Conservancy Trust employ 97 staff, including 57 who are scientists, and run over 50 research projects many in collaboration with universities supervising PhD students. The Game Conservancy Trust have an annual income of £5.2 million mostly coming from members, donations, fundraising events sponsorship and charitable trusts.

The rest is in the form of grants and contracts. The Game Conservancy Trust income has increased by 45% in the last five years.

The Game Conservancy Trust have around 22,000 members and their subscriptions are our biggest single source of income. The Game Conservancy Trust have assets of £2.4 million. In 2003 The Game Conservancy Trust published 33 scientific papers in peer-reviewed journals. In 2003 The Game Conservancy Trust had over £1,500,000 worth of press coverage (advertising equivalent), mainly on conservation and game management.

The Game Conservancy Trust work is regularly featured on radio and television including Farming Today, the Today Programme, BBC Scotland''s Landward. We run over 25 educational courses, conferences and seminars each year. Our scientists and advisory staff are frequently invited to speak as guests at other conferences, etc.

The Game Conservancy Trust work with many other countryside organisations including governement departments and agencies, and conservation farmers organisations. Six of The Game Conservancy Trust staff give on-farm game management and conservation advice throughout the country.

The Game Conservancy Trust charitable objects:

to promote for the public benefit the conservation and study of game species, their habitats and the other species associated with those habitats.
to conduct research into the ecology and biology of game species and their environmental requirements and to publish the useful results of such research.
to advance the education of the public in game biology and the conservation of game (especially, but not exclusively, in the conservation of game as a sustainable resource).
Further information

Please visit the The Game Conservancy Trust website here

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