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August – heather and host
July went out with a heat wave and August came in with the eagerly awaited heather bloom to follow. Our “glorious grouse” have encountered different and varying difficulties from predation (increasing), to a reduction in nutrition where heather beetle has taken a hold and particularly dry conditions early on in some places too. Upland keepers […]
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GWT providing new services following on from the GWT survey
Prior to beginning our programme of training courses on line, fact sheets and webinars on financial health, housing issues and mental health and resilience awareness we have put together a video to explain our reasons, process and progress. Click below to see and hear how it was done and how we progress what you wanted […]
The Gamekeepers’ Welfare Trust exists to support gamekeepers, stalkers and ghillies, and their dependants past and present
GWT provides:-
- Financial grants for gamekeepers, stalkers and ghillies and their families in times of hardship, ill health and retirement.
- Educational grants are available for young people making gamekeeping their career- see guidelines on downloads
- Helpline with information and support on a wide variety of issues including health, retirement, redundancy, housing and employment issues but first and foremost as a confidential listening service. A variety of support is available on downloads.
- Provides a job register and ancillary services. For any issues relating to employment go to: What we do/Employment and connect straight through to our job related site:- Rural Recruits. Please note that not all positions are posted. Other information is also available on downloads.
We can be contacted at any time by phone 01677 470180 (please do leave a message because this line can be busy) email on gamekeeperwtrust@btinternet.com or contact us by text on 07786 91 7498. If you want to talk to someone about anything at all; you may be worried about your job, your relationship or just feeling down – just call.
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About GWT
We were surprised and delighted by the quality and quantity of entries to our poetry competition with the theme:
GAMEKEEPING FOR LIFE
Thank you to all the entrants and many congratulations. Thank you too to our judges Sir John Scott Bt, Lady Scott, Lindsay Waddell and Patrick Galbraith.
The winner of the adult section is Dr Graham Coates-Gibson with his tribute to “Old Raife.”
What we do
The Gamekeepers’ Welfare Trust support gamekeepers, stalkers and ghillies and their dependents in a number of ways:-
- Support
- Financial Grants
- Housing
- Employment
Success stories
“Much of the work of the Gamekeepers Welfare Trust goes unnoticed by most of the NGO membership…”
Support our work
As a small charity we rely on the goodwill of others in order to continue our work in supporting gamekeepers, stalkers and ghillies and their dependents. We understand that there are many worthy causes but are appreciative of every penny donated to the Gamekeepers’ Welfare Trust.