Hunting Solutions
Well-Known Member
Surely this has to be a better idea than keeping all that cash in the bank?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-23792583
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-23792583
Personally I am open minded but would err towards whatever is best for helping the majority.
David
but I know that there's quite a strong tendency now within the organisation to try and use some of the cash in the bank for a programme of land acquisition to ensure access to places to shoot,
Of course, you wouldn't need to acquire the land, only the shooting rights - you could even buy the land, then sell on without the rights.
Perhaps targetting estate owners who are likely to hand land over to charitable purposes like the national trust to avoid death duties etc might be a viable proposal - you could even hand the estate to the NT, and the shooting rights to BASC to ensure that shooting continued in perpetuity, given the landowners whose wishes were shafted over on NT land in the past?
Of course, you wouldn't need to acquire the land, only the shooting rights - you could even buy the land, then sell on without the rights.
I did raise this point at the 2012 AGM, not sure it went down very well with John Swift but might gain a bit more traction with with Richard Ali.
David.
Swift was a dinosaur...'my way is the only way'...now he is gone and Richard Ali appears far more forward thinking.
I also hear that the 'dead wood' within the organisation may be job hunting soon. Times are changing.
If BASC is to become an investment vehicle, then members should be receiving dividends annually.
This is a valid point...
And morally should immediately re - invest any dividends back into B.A.S.C.
Swift was a dinosaur...'my way is the only way'...now he is gone and Richard Ali appears far more forward thinking.
I also hear that the 'dead wood' within the organisation may be job hunting soon. Times are changing.
but at the same time we would always encourage our members to make sure they have a shooting lease and if they want any help with that they can call on our land management team.
David