Prior to working at BASC Glynn was a full time gamekeeper for 25 years in East Anglia and Gloucestershire.

He enjoys a wide range of country sports and shooting activities and has a special interest in all forms of gundog work.  He particularly enjoys training and competing with gundogs and is a B panel retriever field trial judge.
 

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.

Matthew Ellis has joined BASC following completion of a BSc (Hons) in zoology and a PhD in pheasant ecology at the University of Edinburgh. He is interested in a number of countryside sports including rough shooting, airgun hunting and fly fishing. He also enjoys photography, and is a keen amateur entomologist.

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

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.
 

Kenny has, for the last three years, been the Development Officer in Scotland.  He is the main point of contact for membership enquiries and is well placed to deal with the wide range of questions routinely asked of us.  His background is as a Design and Development Engineer but he has also worked in the gun trade and as a gamekeeper and stalker.

His main interests are in wildfowling and stalking but he is knowledgeable about all aspects of pest and vermin control and is a qualified Airgun Coach.

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.

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.

BASC Northern Ireland Centre,
33 Castle Street,
Lisburn,
Co Down,
BT27 4SP
Telephone: 028 9260 5050

Email James Green

After a successful 27 year career in the Army. I joined BASC in 2005 as the Training Officer initially responsible for the Wild Game Meat Hygiene programme. Responsibilities now include the Deer Assessment Centre, delivery of various training programmes to members; development of curriculum’s and course material. Evaluating 3rd party training providers.Supporting various aspects of shooting standards programme.Development of Training Policy document departmental and Association.

A life long interest and passion in deer, rifle shooting and the training of deer and related subjects.  Along with a life long interest in air rifle shooting, and game shooting as well as a recently discovered interest in fly fishing particularly wild brown trout river fishing.