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As a coalition of organisations under the Aim to Sustain banner, we are committed to supporting a balanced and practical transition toward sustainable shooting practices. In response to the Health and Safety Executive’s (HSE) recommendations on lead ammunition, we reaffirm our dedication to advancing environmental sustainability while maintaining the viability of rural communities and the shooting sector.

Aim to Sustain is delighted to announced that The Greater Exmoor Shoot Association (GESA), led by Chairman Gareth Clark, has joined the Aim to Sustain Game Assurance Scheme, with twenty member shoots joining this initiative in a historic move. The announcement was made at The Game Fair, where Gareth Clark and Brian Mitchell, Vice-Chair of the National Gamekeepers Organisation and GESA member, represented the association.

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All Aim to Sustain partner organisations are fully committed to the voluntary transition away from lead shot – significant progress has been made as we enter the fifth year of the transition, but all major organisations representing the shooting community understand that there is further to go. Aim to Sustain will continue to make the positive argument, encouraging all shoots and shooters to make the transition away from lead shot.

The Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust’s (GWCT) demonstration shoot at Loddington in Leicestershire has passed the Aim to Sustain Game Assurance scheme with flying colours.

Spike Butcher, Aim to Sustain’s operations director, recently spoke at the Trusted Game Self-Regulation Conference at Englefield Hall.

Trusted Game, the health and welfare scheme run and provided by the majority of game-focused vets and vet practices in the UK, has announced its first conference to be held on 7th and 8th February 2024, entitled “Towards a more secure future”.

Are you planning to catch-up this season? Aim to Sustain is calling on all shoot managers and gamekeepers who plan to catch-up gamebirds this season to continue to observe a 21-day standstill period before moving caught-up birds to another location. The 21-day standstill, or quarantine period, was included in the Read more…