BADA-UK Roadshow

The Scottish Game Fair

With the kind support of the SGA (Scottish Gamekeepers Association), we will again be exhibiting at the Scottish Game Fair, which is held in the grounds of Scone Palace in Perthshire, on Friday 4th - Sunday 6th of July 2008. Admission to the fair is £13.00 per adult, £3.00 per child under 15 (under 5 yrs free), or £30.00 for a family ticket (2 adults & 2 children). Come and see us at the SGA tent.

The Great Yorkshire Show

We will be exhibiting at the Great Yorkshire Show, with the kind support of the Countryside Alliance. The event is held at the Great Yorkshire Showground, Harrogate, North Yorkshire, on Tuesday 8th to Thursday 10th of July. On-the-gate admission is £19.00 per adult, £8.00 per child (5-18yrs), £15.00 for concessions (senior citizens & students), or a family ticket £47.00 (2 adults & 3 children). Admission is free for carers of disabled visitors (disabled parking and a scooter service are also available). Advance tickets can be purchased from the show website from March 10th until July 9th at a slightly discounted price. Opening times are from 7.30am - 7.30pm. Come and see us at the Countryside Alliance tent.

CLA Game Fair

At the kind invitation of the NGO (National Gamekeepers Organisation), we will be exhibiting at the CLA Game Fair. The event will be held at Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, Oxfordshire, on Friday 25th to Sunday 27th July 2008. Opening times are from 9.30am-6pm (open until 7.30pm on Friday). Admission prices are not yet available. The venue has disabled facilities. Come and see us at the NGO tent.

The Highland Fieldsports Fair

With the kind support of the SGA (Scottish Gamekeepers Association), we will be exhibiting at the Highland Fieldsports Fair again this year. The event will be held on Friday 1st- Saturday 2nd August 2008 at the Moy estate, about 10 miles south of Inverness on the A9 Perth - to - Inverness road. Opening times are 10am-6pm. Admission is £8 per adult (under 16 yrs free). Parking is free.

Midland Game Fair

We have kindly been invited by the NGO (National Gamekeepers Organisation), to exhibit at the Midland Game Fair again this year. The event will be held at Weston Park, Weston under Lizard, Shropshire, on Saturday 20th and Sunday 21st September 2008. Opening times are 8am-6pm. Admission: Saturday - Adults £14.00, children £5; Sunday - Adults £16, Children £5. Concessions are available with pre-booked tickets. Parking is free.

The Shugborough Game Fair

We would like to give our sincere thanks to SACS (Scottish Association for Country Sports) for inviting us to exhibit with them at the Shugborough Game Fair on the 8th and 9th of March at Shugbrough Hall , near Stafford. Despite the cold, we enjoyed talking to lots of people and we thank everyone who donated items for our raffle or made a donation to help support our work.

The Selby Game Fair

Again, our sincere thanks go to SACS (Scottish Association for Country Sports) for hosting our exhibit at the Selby Game Fair, at Carlton Towers in North Yorkshire, on the 21st - 24th of March. The great British weather certainly made it interesting, with trade tents blowing completely away in the bitter wind and the ground being tested by frost, rain, hail and then several inches of snow. Finally, when the spring sun appeared, the snow melted away and we had the pleasure of thick mud, with vehicles being towed left, right and centre. But, with true grit, everyone coped and a great time was had by most. We'd like to thank everyone who donated items for our raffle and who bought tickets. Our thanks also go to our friend and supporter, Tom Chalmers, and to Rick and Dee Dunn and all the helpers from the East Coast Ferret Rescue, for all their efforts to raise funds for BADA-UK.

Lambton Clay Shoot

Our sincere thanks go to the NGO (National Gamekeepers Organisation), for inviting us to exhibit at the Lambton Park Clay Pigeon Shoot, at Chester-Le-Street in County Durham, on 26-27th April. We also thank the NGO for their generous donation of £1,000, which was presented to us by Stuart Riddell, Chairman of the Northumberland and Durham branch of the NGO. Our thanks also go to all the attendees who supported our work by buying lots of raffle tickets. We had a great couple of days talking to everyone.

The National Countrysports Fair

Thanks to the kind support of SACS (Scottish Association of Country Sports), we attended the National Countrysports Fair, at Moira Demesne, Northern Ireland, again this year. The event was held on May31st -June 1st and the weekend's weather, despite the drizzly forecast, was absolutely scorching. There was a profusion of lobster coloured bodies and the local shops sold out of sun block. As always, we thoroughly enjoyed seeing old friends and meeting lots of members of the public, who were as supportive as always. We hope to see everyone again next year.

The Royal Highland Show

This year was the first time we have attended the Royal Highland Show at Ingliston in Edinburgh. The event was held on 19-22nd June and the SGA continued their support of BADA-UK by squeezing us in to exhibit along side them in their marquee.

The weather remained fine for most of the time and we spoke to lots of people from country-sports and agricultural backgrounds, as well as people who had just come along for a day trip. It wasn't until we were packing up that the heavens opened and we found ourselves wheel-spinning our way out of yet another mud-filled field! Our thanks, as always, go to the SGA for all their support.