Ahead of this year’s National Hedgerow Week (running all this week), more than 60 hedgelayers from around the UK and Ireland converged on East Hampshire for a Guinness World Record attempt for the longest stretch of hedge laid in 12 hours. Dr Francis Buner, senior scientist at the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust (GWCT) was called upon for scientific advice and to act as ‘specialist witness’ for the world record attempt. The event at the Rotherfield Park Estate resulted in a remarkable 555.4 metres of hedges laid in approximately seven and a half hours - a ...

The Country Food Trust, The Game Fair’s official charity, has launched a Winter Appeal with the goal of raising £200,000 to help feed families in crisis. The Trust says that, with the on-going squeeze in household budgets due to rising food and energy prices, more people than ever are turning to local food banks for help. And it says that, with foodbanks now outnumbering McDonalds outlets, demand has doubled yet donations are reportedly down 70 per cent. So the Trust wants to deliver hundreds of thousands of meals and to those in need. It says nutritional, ...

The Canal and River Trust’s Let’s Fish! initiative encouraged thousands of new and lapsed anglers to try fishing through a programme of targeted events, including The Game Fair at Ragley Hall. Indeed, during the 2021 season, the CRT scheme saw a total of 8,589 participants at 452 Let’s Fish! Events, according to the organisation’s annual report, which has just been released. Using venues like the lake at Ragley Hall along with canals, rivers and lakes throughout the UK, the initiative offers ‘catch and release’ freshwater fishing while revealing the wellbeing benefits of being by the waterways. ...

A unique collaboration between a countryside charity, a financial business, the media and The Game Fair has resulted in three iconic films on planting woodlands for the future, which tens of thousands of people have already seen. The Queen’s Green Canopy, a huge tree-planting initiative surrounding Her Majesty’s Platinum Jubilee, was the catalyst for the partnership, formed between the UK’s largest woodland conservation charity Woodland Trust, banking and wealth management group Investec and The Field, the hugely popular countryside and fieldsports publication. The target of three 70-acre forests could equate to around 135,000 trees in total, ...