Developments

As the years have passed, we have recruited almost ten thousand members, from all walks of life.  The membership is growing strongly, and SACS is represented on all of the main government working parties which involve the countryside.  We also work with the other countryside organisations, to make sure that resources are not being wasted by duplication of effort.

Around five years ago, country sportsmen in Northern Ireland, who had come to feel as the Scots had felt five years before, invited us to provide our services to them, and we now have over two thousand members there.

We have had a strong influence in changing Firearms Policy in N.I., and were successful in having many of the unwanted parts of the new N.I. Firearms Order (due to take effect in December 2004) removed or reworded to make things easier for our members there.

SACS represents all of the wildfowling interests on Lough Neagh, as the Wildfowling Representative on the Lough Neagh Advisory Committee, and has a Director on the Board of the Lough Neagh Partnership, which has been set up to spend an immense EU grant for environmental projects.  We are of course trying to make sure that as much of this money as possible is used for projects which will benefit wildfowling.

Currently, we are working with the Lough Erne Wildfowlers Council and the Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure to ensure a stable and efficient base on which the wildfowling on Lough Erne can be run for the benefit of all local wildfowlers.

We currently publish a quarterly magazine, free to members, containing the latest news and views in the country sports world.  You will be able to have a look at the latest magazine and extracts from previous issues by clicking on this link