In the latest GWCT email to members and supporters, their cheery chair, Ian Coghill, spreads the Christmas good will by asking for money so that most people don’t get what they want after Brexit but what farmers and gamekeepers want!
Post-Brexit Policy Appeal
As we leave the EU, the GWCT feels that government funding should start focusing on what works rather than what people ‘like’. With your help, we can push for a system that puts farmers and gamekeepers in control. £100 will help us to give politicians and the wider public a true picture of what is being done for wildlife on farms and estates. Please donate.
Thank you for your continued support and on behalf of everyone at the GWCT, have a very Merry Christmas and a happy New Year.
Ian Coghill
Chairman of Trustees
Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust
Ho! ho! ho! Merry Christmas!
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So about 50p per member?
What people like is for protected species to actually benefit from that protection and for shooting folk to actually obey the law. Pity that GWCT can’t bring itself to wholeheartedly campaign for that.
I’m glad I’m not a grandchild of Mr Coghill! Maybe we’re actually fighting for what future generations need, not like, though the two are often the same.
Well that’s GWCT laid bare then. “put farmers and gamekeepers in control”, wow! Not our elected parliament or even the public who provide the ££ through their taxes should be in control. No, let’s allow a narrow sectoral interest, who for years have been paid just for being farmers, to be allowed to continue feathering their nests. It beggars belief.
So this is a ‘conservation’ charity appealing for funds to lobby politicians?
I thought there were restrictions on lobbying?
Erroneous statements made by charities can be challenged?
However, charities are not subject to FoI so any ‘scientific claims’ are not subject to any rigorous independent peer review ….
‘What works’ for who? The many not the few would reasonable expect public benefit from any support / subsidies?