Alan McCormick is BASC's Head of Deer Management. He is a specialist in deer management with extensive practical experience.

Alan joined BASC from his former post as Training Manager with the British Deer Society and prior to that he ran a forestry, fencing and pest control business.

Alan has 19 years experience of deer management and is a long standing member of BASC.

Bill Harriman is a nationally recognised expert in firearms, ballistics and related matters. Before joining BASC in 1991, he worked for 10 years for a firm of auctioneers specialising in arms armour and miliatria.

He is regularly seen on television as part of the team of experts on the BBC's Antiques Roadshow programme.

A former Territorial Army Officer with 18 years service, he is also a forensic scientist dealing with cases involving firearms, ammunition and other weapons. In 1999, he was elected to membership of the prestigious Academy of Experts and has been a member of the forensic Science Society since 2003.
 
 

Christopher Graffius joined BASC as its director of communications in 2001.

He is responsible for the organisation's media department which includes press relations, political affairs, website and publications.
 

Conor joined BASC in 2003, spending several years successfully negotiating wildfowling leases and consents in England, Wales and Northern Ireland before expanding his role as Policy Development Manager to oversee the submission of BASC responses to all government consultations nationally and internationally.  He specifically represents shooting interests related to the Marine and Coastal Access Act and any proposals affecting the open general licences for pest birds. 

Conor is secretary of Dee Wildfowlers and a committee member of Rossett & Gresford Flyfishers.  He qualified as a Zoologist in Ireland in 1996 and began work on a game-keeping and habitat restoration project to save the Irish grey partridge from extinction, for which his research was awarded a PhD.  He takes a keen interest in that project to this day, the last Irish population having recovered twenty fold, from a low of 22 birds. 
 

Arriving at WAGBI in 1978 with a degree in Wildlife management and PhD in small mammal ecology, specifically rat control by anticoagulants, both from Edinburgh University, John took on the relatively small research needs of the association at the time.

Since then they have grown considerably to encompass a wide range of technical aspects necessary to support BASC from local to international level. He fishes and shoots (in that order).

Joining the BASC team in 2004 with a degree in Zoology and a PhD in Population biology, at Leicester University and Dundee University respectively, Peter initially joined the Research Department before taking on the role of Director of Shooting Standards in 2007.

He is now responsible for setting the standards within shooting sports, training, coaching, education and introducing young people to shooting through BASC’s young shots programme. He has a great love of most forms of shooting, acquired whilst growing up in the Cambridgeshire fens, although he is particularly interested in wildfowling, rough shooting and fishing

John Swift has been keen on shooting and natural history since his earliest days - a zoology graduate from Oxford with commercial management experience in London before joining WAGBI in 1972. He completed a post graduate degree in ecology with research into the wintering ecology of the Common Snipe. He has held many posts in the shooting and conservation world and is currently a Vice President of FACE and a director of the Deer Initiative Ltd. He has been Chief Executive since 1988. 

Mark first began wildfowling with the Kent Wildfowling and Conservation Association in the late 1990’s. He remained a full and active member of the club until 2005 when he moved to Cheshire to begin working at BASC. He is currently a full member of the Dee Wildfowling and Wetlands Management club, and an associate member of the Morecambe Bay Wildfowling Association. 

Before becoming BASC's Wildfowling Officer, Mark spent two years working on the BASC Green Shoots project in Cheshire, enlisting the assistance of BASC members in the county to help to contribute to local biodiversity targets. For several years prior to this, he held several posts in the conservation sector, encompassing professional land management and undertaking wildlife surveys, specialising in ornithology.

Mike Eveleigh joined BASC as its senior firearms officer in 1998. Mike has more than 30 years experience as a serving police officer, including time as a firearms enquiry officer and armed police officer.

He is a member of two rifle and pistol clubs and is also a qualified range conducting officer. Mike has assisted with the compilation of the Home Office Guidance to the Police on firearms law, and the Home Office/ACPO/ BSSC Firearms security handbook.

Mike is an expert in firearms law and police procedure.
 

Paul joined BASC head office as the Rural Land Development Manager in 2009. Paul works closely with BASC affiliated clubs and members to identify opportunities for purchase and lease of land for shooting. He also assists clubs and members in maximising income from the land they own / occupy and other land management issues that arise.

Prior to joining BASC Paul has had sixteen years experience as a Rural and General Practice Chartered Surveyor. He has worked within the private sector for both owner occupier and tenant farmers. Scope of work has included: land & property sales, farm subsidies, environmental schemes, agricultural law, letting/ grazing agreements, compulsory purchase schemes, wayleaves & easements, valuations and livestock marketing.

Paul has been involved in shooting since the age of ten, predominately within North West Midlands. In the early years he carried a stick and now he enjoys both shooting and beating on a variety of walked and peg days.

Simon joined BASC in April 2001 as its first director of operations. Simon is responsible for the Operations team, which includes the English regional teams and

the Conservation and Land Management, Firearms, Research and Shooting Standards departments. Simon is also responsible for BASC’s presence at the CLA Game Fair, communicable diseases crisis management planning and BASC’s game marketing campaign, Game’s On. Simon is also a Trustee of the Wildlife Habitat Trusts.

Having grown up around shooting and gamekeeping Tom completed a HND in Game and Wildlife Management at Newton Rigg College. He remained in Cumbria for six years employed in all areas of lowland game and habitat management. Latterly developing two commercial pheasant shoots.

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Having grown up around shooting and gamekeeping Tom completed a HND in Game and Wildlife Management at Newton Rigg College. He remained in Cumbria for six years employed in all areas of lowland game and habitat management. Latterly developing two commercial pheasant shoots.

Tom joined BASC as the Game and Gamekeeping Officer in 2007, subsequently taking on the head of department role in 2008 looking to build on the foundations of the past, to ensure a sustainable future for game shooting and game management. Away from the office, Tom enjoys all areas of live quarry shooting and is a keen fly fisherman.

Tim Russell joined BASC as its director of conservation in 2000. Tim had previously been an environmental consultant and had also farmed in Cambridgeshire for 20 years.

His areas of expertise include land use and conservation, with particular emphasis on the benefits management of land for shooting provides for biodiversity.
 
 

Ian Danby has a degree in Ecology and Environmental Management and has been a freelance ecologist working for local authorities and wildlife trusts, his primary skills being botanical survey and generating management plans. His last contract before joining BASC in 1999 was with the Nottingham Wildlife Trust’s Environmental Consultancy. Ian took the position of Biodiversity Officer to develop BASC’s Biodiversity Action Plan for shooting called Green Shoots. He is now Head of Biodiversity Projects with three staff working on targeted conservation projects which achieve biodiversity targets in Cheshire, the Somerset Levels and North Wales. These projects are now part of our Green Shoots programme of work.

Ian was introduced to shooting by his father and came to BASC with a keen interest in decoying woodpigeon and rough shooting. He discovered wildfowling when joining BASC and is now a committed wildfowler too. Ian and his wife Jayne are the proud parents of Thomas who is keen to learn about shooting sports.

Alex joined the conservation team in 2006 and has been running the Green Shoots in North Wales project since then. The aim of Green Shoots is to engage BASC members with the BAP (Biodiversity Action Plan) Process. Projects have ranged from large scale connectivity work, which help dampen the effects of climate change to species projects such as finding and verifying locally rare species such as pine martens and dormice and consequently help them to thrive.

Prior to working for the BASC, Alex gained a B.Sc. in Zoology and a M.Sc. in Wildlife Biology and Conservation. Alex has spent time working in South Africa and New Zealand on wildlife reserves helping to manage their complex ecosystems. On returning to the UK he carried out some work for FWAG Cymru (Farming and Wildlife Advisory Group) writing individual farm biodiversity reports. Following this Alex worked for the Central Science Laboratory carrying out mammal surveys on farmland.
 

Originally from North Cheshire Ben graduated in 2005 with a first class honours degree in Environmental Conservation from the University of Wales, Bangor where he carried out a joint project with the British Trust for Ornithology on the breeding ecology of Barn owls in the UK. Prior to working at BASC Ben worked in practical land management working for amongst others a tree surgeon and a fencing contractor.

With a keen interest in all aspects of country life Ben hopes to work alongside the shooting community in Cheshire to help contribute to biodiversity targets ensuring shooting is recognised as a key player in the conservation of the Great British countryside.

Colin is a zoology graduate of Glasgow University and has worked for BASC, in a number of roles, since 1984.  He has been the Director Scotland since 1994 and is currently a Board Member of the Deer Commission for Scotland and the Heather Trust, as well as a member of SNH’s Scientific Advisory Committee, Scotland’s Moorland Forum, the National Access Forum and the National Goose Management Review Group.

He is an enthusiastic shotgun and rifle shooter, a BASC Shotgun coach and a keen angler, when he finds the time.
 

Glynn Cook joined BASC in 1988 after a career in advertising on local newspapers and as a journalist on national newspapers and magazines including Shooting Times and The Observer.

Glynn represents and promotes all aspects of BASC members' activities in Wales.  He is a keen and active wildfowler and game shot and is a member of the BASC Gundog Advisory Committee.

Meurig Rees is the BASC Wales Country Officer.

A fluent Welsh speaker, Meurig was born and raised in Ceredigion, West Wales.  From a farming background dating back to his grandparents, through to his late father who was a farm manager for a local estate and today with family still farming in the area, Meurig really has his roots firmly in the rural community.

After leaving Cardigan Seconday School, Meurig spent eleven years as a bricklayer and stonemason until he joined the MOD Fire Service. This provided an opportunity to spend time at many of the MOD establishments within Wales, England and Scotland and he remained within the MOD until joining BASC in April 2005.

Meurig has been involved in all aspects of shooting sports for over 35 years. He is currently a member of a local duck and pheasant syndicate and is an experienced clay target shooter, gaining numerous County and International honours and has served as an Executive Committee Member of the Welsh Clay Target Shooting Association and was the WCTSA County Coordinator for Dyfed. As a member of the county team Meurig helped Dyfed to be the Welsh inter-county champions on many occasions. He was also team manager to the Welsh International Team for a number of years.
Having owned and trained spaniels most of his life he has just trained his first Labrador.  Ceri has already been a great attraction at various BASC events in Wales during 2008 as part of the gundog display team and she has just finished her first season picking up at a number of local shoots.

Meurig’s real passion is providing a valuable fox control service to farmers in West Wales, with a rifle during both day and night time hours, and has accounted for thousands of foxes over the last twenty five years.

Nicolle is a law graduate from the University of Dundee and has considerable experience in administration and personel management.  Her speciality is environmental issues but she is keen to engage in all aspects of policy and politics that keep BASC Scotland busy.  
 
Since she joined BASC Nicolle has been kept busy lobbying for airguns and taking a lead on policy with respect to the Wildlife and Natural Environment Bill.
 
Nicolle has a keen interest in shotgun shooting, is currently training her black lab and has already had instruction in rifle shooting. 

David Knowles has been the regional director for the south of England since 2003. He had previously been a BASC regional officer.

He started his career working for his family's trout and salmon farming business. David has also worked for the old British Field Sports Society as Regional Director and Stag hunting Representative.

David and his wife used to run a high class restaurant specialising in game, fish and English dishes so he is very interested in promoting game as food.

Jamie Stewart - Regional Director (South West)Jamie Stewart is a former head gamekeeper and has also been a project officer for Scottish Natural Heritage and an RSPB sea eagle information warden.

He is an expert in all aspects of gamekeeping, birds of prey and access. 

Jamie was formerly BASC's Gamekeeping and Wildlife Management Officer.

Jenni grew up on a mixed farm in North Oxfordshire and graduated from Harper Adams University College in June 2006 with a degree in Countryside & Environmental Management. From a young age Jenni enjoyed a rural upbringing enjoying outdoor activities such as beating at a local shoot and more recently both clay and live quarry shooting. She has always had an interest in rural issues and feels strongly that the future of the countryside is in educating the next generation, which is reflected in the work she carries out with the BASC Young Shot programme, Game’s On and other promotional work including talks to clubs, societies, schools and colleges. In her free time Jenni enjoys travelling as well as being a keen member of her local Young Farmers Club and helping with fundraising for the farming charity RABI and the Gamekeepers Welfare Trust.

Liz Lamb - Regional Officer (Midlands)Liz Lamb has been the regional officer for the Midlands since 2003. Liz was the first woman to be appointed as a regional officer in the 97 year history of the Association.

Liz is a former Great Britain clay shooter and a founder member of the all-female Game Birds syndicate.

Phil joined BASC on a full time basis in 1988 having assisted the Association for a number of years voluntarily as an Honorary Education officer in Staffordshire. Following education in London studying economics and law and several years self employed in property management in Spain, Phil returned to the U.K. and the International Transport industry before joining the BASC. A lifelong involvement in all aspects of shooting sports a strong supporter of Hunting and an avid Salmon and Trout fisherman Phil is happiest when out in the country either working or playing.

Simon grew up chasing his meals in the heart of North West Norfolk and graduated from Edinburgh University in 2000 with a Masters in Religious Studies and History of Art. He still enjoys beating having started at the age of eight, and now combines that with all forms of shooting and fishing, and picking up when he can, although his first passion will always be pigeon shooting. Simon has worked in the gun trade for the last decade firstly in Bonham’s’ Gun Department, then with Holt’s Auctioneers, and latterly as gunroom manager for Ling’s Country Goods.

Joining BASC in 2008. Steve has an extensive background in gamekeeping (at Bretby and Audley End) and in sales as an Area Sales Agent for Barbour.

Steve is a keen game shot and stalker.

He is responsible for BASC activities in the following counties: Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Northamptonshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire, Hereford & Worcester, Warwickshire, West Midlands and Lincolnshire.

Steve Woodhall is Regional Officer for the North of England. After a career with the British Army, serving with the Scots Guards, he spent time working as a game keeper before returning to his native Cumbria to work with young people with severe behavioural difficulties. From a predominantly training and education background, Steve joined BASC in 2003. Steve has been involved with shooting and country sports for most of his life and particularly enjoys deer stalking and wildfowling, as well as working gundogs. Steve is an assessor for the Wild Deer Management Qualifications. He is enthusiastic towards providing opportunities for young people and newcomers to become involved in shooting sports.

Outside of his work with BASC and shooting, Steve enjoys mountaineering, back country skiing and Scottish culture. Married to Lindsay, they have a young daughter, Lucie, and a son, Lewis. Steve lives in the Lake District and has an office near Milnthorpe
 

William Heal has been a regional director for BASC for the last 15 years. He is responsible for the eastern region of England which includes Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire and London.

Before joining BASC, William was an army officer with 27 years experience.

Robin Marshall-Ball joined the BASC team in 2002 but had been working as a volunteer for the organisation for 28 years.

Robin had previously spent four years in food industry as a company 'trouble-shooter' and prior to that, 27 years as an Earth Sciences teacher in comprehensive and grammar schools.