ForTheLoveOfGame

13/05/2025

📑 6 Findings from recent Predator Control Study

What really happens when predator control stops in the UK uplands? A major study has shed light on the devastating impact on some of our most vulnerable ground-nesting birds:

🦊 Predators like foxes and crows quickly increased
🪺 Lapwing, snipe and golden plover populations saw near-total collapse
🪶 Red grouse numbers dropped by over 50% in just one year
☠️ Black grouse and grey partridge became locally extinct
🔕 Breeding bird calls fell silent, especially in spring
📉 Biodiversity dropped, showing how predator control supports wider conservation

Read the full blog for all the detail - link is in the comments below.

04/05/2025

There’s more and more on the moors

04/05/2025

12/10/2024

Tarset Ceilidh-Band Thankyou for a super evening Simonburn Village Hall tonight
Whoop whoop we had a great time 🥳🥳👻👻🎃🎃

12/10/2024

For the Love of Game

Steady away and back on the mend 🙏🙏❤️❤️

29/02/2024

Don't forget, Saturday 2nd March, Community Conservation Day at Primrose Nature Reserve. Help us to help clean up the reserve, making it a place for wildlife to survive and thrive, as well as a welcoming place for people of all ages to discover wildlife and understand its importance.
https://www.tyneriverstrust.org/upcoming-events/community-litter-pick/?fbclid=IwAR3cFdAQ1O1_Vul_9Lm0y1-ev6TTMUHYV1Eg2A374-BBB6dAGCB1r8z30_g
Primrose Nature Reserve

29/02/2024

Seven hundred years of English Cooking can’t be wrong. So little mention of a plant based diet in this book I wander if it ought to be lifted from all shelves and burnt 🔥

At no point in the evolution of the human being have we not relied on dead stuff to feed or clothe our paltry flesh.

Take a look around you. Who looks the most healthy, with vitality and a twinkle in their eyes.

In the coming weeks I am selling all my cookery books/baking tins/street food trailer as well as any intellectual property I own in relation to my business activities over the last 25 yrs.
I exit a food industry that refuses to comply with some basic food safety requirements that will allow me and anyone else for that matter, to trade with confidence.
Well done for ALL of the indie businesses who have tried to work within this industry and good luck to anyone who gives it a go.



Being a small privately owned commercial enterprise has been the love of my life. Ask my my children and few exes.

Representative organisations have their fingers in all but my pies. Stifling innovation. Refusing to allow none representative persons (commercial enterprise) to flourish. Trying to take ‘control’ of stuff they only have half an idea for, sidelining excellent progressive projects within their own ranks, investing in flops and pr campaigns not required, setting the food side of the industry back by 10 yrs. Not to mention using membership funds to back a million pound leaflet campaign that was already being funded by them! Fe cking crazy at the top end.

20 yrs ago I attended a course with my local EHO. We were so happy, enthusiastic for the future….. zero follow up apart from in-house nonsense.
Only one campaign has had my backing and that is Trusted Game funded by independent businesses who know what they are talking about (as commercial enterprises ). No hand outs. No grants. No blue envelopes. No sc***um tickling to get the results they have to have in order to trade.

Is the shooting industry doomed?

Discuss amongst yourselves

05/02/2024

https://lymediseaseuk.com/2024/01/11/lyme-disease-in-children-interview-with-professor-gareth-tudor-williams/?fbclid=IwAR3E85ND_MdCDz_UIgB7_E2cnyECh3qANs6JD-X3BXDlZj3d5j7xobIrVW8_aem_AVoChEtotGGNwBsHGWJW4TV8ijIj3ySzLs_7WBQeluP35aeI4B9ZEDnDAUY0zCbdDbk

Some months ago, Lyme disease UK was approached by the research team from the popular soap opera, Coronation Street, about a possible story line featuring a child who contracts Lyme disease. In light of this story line, we invited Professor Gareth Tudor-Williams, Emeritus Professor Children’s Infe...

29/01/2024

We are very pleased to report our Conference is now fully booked and there are no more places available.

Thank you to everyone for their interest - looks like it will have to be even bigger next year !

28/11/2023

In the UK, peat bogs are ‘our largest terrestrial carbon store, a haven for rare wildlife, a record of our past, and natural providers of water regulation. – Only 13% of England’s peatlands are in a near natural state.’ (From the foreword of the ‘England Peat Action Plan’ of May 2021.) The ‘UK Peatland Strategy 2018-2040’ by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has similar statements on the value of peatlands as a carbon store and unique habitat.
The National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) 2012, states in paragraph 180, clause (c) that ‘development resulting in the loss or deterioration of irreplaceable habitats (such as ancient woodland and ancient or veteran trees) should be refused, unless there are wholly exceptional reasons and a suitable compensation strategy exists;’ Natural England have consistently argued that peatlands are clearly irreplaceable habitats.
Incredibly, there is no protection for peat moss in England, despite the widely-recognised importance of mossland as mentioned above. Even the most degraded mossland will release millions of tonnes of CO2e if developed on, as the peat dries out. Achieving ‘net zero’ greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2050 is a statutory requirement for the UK and England, yet many authorities do not take into account the greenhouse gases released by mosslands in their area.

Ban all development on all peatlands in the UK

16/11/2023

This fine bone china mug and stunning handmade bauble are a tribute to the enduring beauty of Sycamore Gap, a place that has touched souls far and wide.

Available in two designs, the mug's surface features the iconic Sycamore Gap. Each time you use this mug, you embrace a unique story and become part of a community bonded by love for this enchanting place.

Our beautiful bauble features the iconic tree in all its former splendour. A heartfelt and beautiful reminder of its elegant beauty.

These are PRE-ORDER products. Secure yours before 27th October, as only a limited quantity will be produced in time for the festive season!

https://www.powderbutterfly.com/collections/sycamore-gap