WELCOME FROM THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE | Welcome Teresa Dent CHIEF EXECUTIVE
Your membership benefi ts
You can join your local county group and have exclusive access to advisory events. The chance to visit our pioneering Allerton Project Farm at Loddington. Free copies of Gamewise, our feature-packed magazine. Your own free personal copy of our annual Review. Participation in the exclusive members’ prize draw raffles. An invitation to our Scottish Game Fair at Scone Palace. Regular email updates of all our latest news and research. Pleasure from the knowledge that you’re helping the British countryside thrive both now and in the future.
Dick Potts was renowned for his conservation work and was posthumously awarded the RSPB’s conservation medal.
his is a sad issue of Gamewise because in it we commemorate the passing of Dr Dick Potts, my predecessor, who was director general of what was then The Game Conservancy Trust between 1993 and 2001. There is a full obituary of Dick and his considerable lifetime achievements on page 8. Dick was both a force of nature and a force for nature. His passion was wild grey partridges, but that did not begin to describe the
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breadth of his interests and the extent of his intense curiosity. An old friend and neighbour of Dick’s said to me recently “Dick was fantastic company as he was literally interested in everything”. Dick would have been very touched to know that he was posthumously awarded the RSPB’s conservation medal.
“Dick was fantastic company as he was
literally interested in everything”
This edition of Gamewise also highlights the GWCT’s 29th Scottish Game Fair at Scone Palace from Friday 30 June to Sunday 2 July. This is always a fantastic, not-to-be-missed event and I hope we will see all our Scottish readers there. There is no more perfect place to be than on the banks of the river Tay, in the shadow of the palace, on a beautiful July weekend. We look forward to welcoming you to the members’ enclosure where
we will be featuring GWCT’s new research and demonstration farm in Scotland, entertaining politicians and policymakers, educating the public on the importance of game management for biodiversity and welcoming many friends. We hope to see you there.
Key dates for your diary
Diary
For a full list of events taking place near you please see page 54
7 June
Gloucestershire Clay shoot
North Farm, Shipton Max Kendry
mkendry@gwct.org.uk
30 June - 2 July Scotland
GWCT Scottish Game Fair Scone Palace, Perthshire
Kerry Graham 01738 554826 12 July
Buckinghamshire
Flycasting masterclass and dinner Green Park and the Flyfishing Club, Brook Street, London
Ben Glazier
ben@glazierdesign.com
www.gwct.org.uk
Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust Fordingbridge, Hampshire SP6 1EF Tel: 01425 652381 Fax: 01425 655848 Email:
info@gwct.org.uk Reg: Charity No: 1112023 Reg: Company No. 05579632 Vat No. 665 2959 92 Patron HRH The Duke of Edinburgh KG KT OM GBE President The Marquess of Salisbury PC, DL Chairman Ian Coghill
Chief Executive
Teresa Dent CBE FRAgS Director of Fundraising Jeremy Payne MInstF
Director of Communications, Marketing & Membership Andrew Gilruth
Director of Policy & Public Affairs Alastair Leake PhD, FRAgS
Director of Research Professor Nick Sotherton PhD Deputy Director of Research Nicholas Aebischer Lic ès Sc Math, PhD Director (Scotland) Adam Smith DPhil Chief Finance Officer Nick Sheeran
Main contact numbers Advisory
T: 01425 651013 E:
advisory@gwct.org.uk Accounts T: 01425 651017 E:
accounts@gwct.org.uk Marketing T: 01425 651021 E:
marketing@gwct.org.uk Membership/donations T: 01425 651024/651016 E:
membership@gwct.org.uk PR and media T: 01425 651000 E:
press@gwct.org.uk Research T: 01425 651025 E:
research@gwct.org.uk Shop T: 01425 651016 E:
shop@gwct.org.uk
Other offices
The Allerton Project T: 01572 717220 E:
allerton@gwct.org.uk London/Fundraising T: 020 7290 0110 E:
london@gwct.org.uk Scotland
Get in touch
T: 01738 551511 E:
scottishhq@gwct.org.uk Salmon & Trout Research Centre T: 01929 401893 E:
fisheries@gwct.org.uk
Editing, Design and Layout Louise Shervington 01572 717169/James Swyer 01425 651021 E:
editor@gwct.org.uk Advertising, Production Mark Brown, Fellows Media Ltd, The Gallery, Manor Farm, Southam, Cheltenham, Glos GL52 3PB. Tel: 01242 259249 Email:
mark@fellowsmedia.com
ISSN 1757-7357 Printed on chlorine-free paper from sustainable forests
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