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

Sian is PA to the Director of Shooting Standards and is often the first point of contact within the department.

Sian has had a long association with rural pursuits as her husband is a keen shooter and she is a keen game cook!

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.
 
 

Chris joined the BASC in June 2011.  He has been fortunate to have been actively involved in all shooting sports for the past 35 years.  Commissioned into the Royal Regiment of Wales in 1971 serving in Germany and Northern Ireland.  He then joined Hull Cartridge Company as the northern area sales representative and after 20 years in that role he was asked by Sir Jackie Stewart to run his shooting school at Gleneagles.  Here he substantially re-developed the shooting facility, established an archery school, air rifle range and founded an leading multi loch fly fishing complex.  He is an avid game-shot, deer manager, target rifle shooter, archer and fly-fisherman.  He is an advanced Sporting Clays coach, qualified range conducting officer and safety officer.

David Ilsley is BASC's Head marketing & membership services. His main shooting interests are airgunning and pigeon shooting, and also spends over 20 days a year beating on local shoots.

David has worked at BASC since 1995 and has been shooting for over 30 years.

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.

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.
 

Jane’s primary responsibility is the BASC Shotgun Coach Award and our team of BASC Shotgun Coaches, organising training, assessment days, coaching lines and related events such as Safe Shot across the country. Jane is a qualified A1 assessor, trained in evaluation and she is also one of our few female BASC Accredited Shotgun Coaches.

Other duties include the BASC Schools Programme attending large ‘Countryside Live’ outdoor events organised by Countryside Foundation for Education together with Susan Bull.

Jane enjoys working her Large Munsterlander, shotgun shooting and shopping – not particularly in that order!

Based in Derbyshire
M: 07795 038682

Born and brought up in the City, Liz escaped to rural Berkshire where she bred and trained horses. She began her clay shooting career in Olympic Trap in the mid 1990's which resulted in winning the British and English Championships and qualifying for the Great Britain Shooting Team. Shooting around the world in top level competitions provided her with skills and experience she now draws from when encouraging others to take up the sport.

Liz is a champion of ladies’ shooting in this country, both of clay and game and developed the National Lady Shot register. She is also a qualified BASC coach.

Game shooting now takes precedence in her life and she is founder member of the all girl ‘Game Birds’ shooting syndicate. Now with her DSC Level I certificate, deer stalking dominates her free time.

Prior to joining BASC in 2000, Liz took a degree in anthropology at the University of London and followed this with a PhD.

PO Box 6701
Ashbourne
Derbyshire
DE6 2ZB
Tel: 01335 324507

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.

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.

BASC Scottish Centre,
Trochry,
Dunkeld,
Tayside,
PH8 0DY
Tel: 01350 723 226
Mob: 07971 795635
Fax: 01350 723 227 

Donald Muir is one of the best recognised faces in shooting in Scotland, having been actively involved in wildfowling and all other forms of shooting even well before joining BASC Scotland as our first Development Officer over 10 years ago.  In his current role Donald is responsible for all of our varied training delivery, including a wide range of Young Shots courses, all other events such as shows and fairs, as well as the representing BASC Scotland on all the Local Authority committees dealing with wildfowling permit schemes. 

Donald is a native of Fife and is also a BASC Shotgun Coach, a Range Conducting Officer and a qualified assessor.  His main interests are in wildfowling and deer stalking.