CAMCORDERS TO THE COTSWOLDS

 We’re thrilled to say that post alone prompted another 10 supporters to take out paid subs - and since then another twenty-five of you have done the same too!

We are truly grateful, because as we always explain we take absolutely nothing from those paid subscriptions: every single penny we raise goes straight into our Protecting the Wild Equipment Fund - putting ‘eyes in the field’ and empowering people to protect British wildlife by providing groups with much-needed kit like radios, bodycams, trailcams - and of course camcorders.

And it doesn’t matter whether that group is large or small or where they are - if they’re out there protecting wildlife we want to help!

Which is why when the small but incredibly committed Cotswold Monitors, a group we know personally very well, approached us to ask if we could replace two ageing camcorders ‘to keep them safe’ we swung into action immediately. 

These monitors don’t have their own website and don’t fundraise, but they spend a huge amount of self-funded time out in Gloucestershire and the Cotswolds (often alongside other groups like the Gloucester-based Three Counties Hunt Sabs) monitoring David Cameron’s former favourite fox killers the Heythrop Hunt.

Like so many other groups in these dying days of hunting with hounds they are facing increasing harassment from the hunt and its supporters - but this weekend (like every weekend) they will be out in the field - some of which as the images below show is very hilly indeed! It might sound a little over-dramatic, but we genuinely mean it when we say ‘Cotswold Monitors, we salute you’…

“Thanks to Protect the Wild we are now able to keep an even better eye on our local hunts (including the sheep-worrying Heythrop) with two new cameras. 

Thank you. It's really going to make a difference after eight years of using poor equipment!”

Cotswold Monitors.

Just imagine the impact we are having between us. Thanks to your generosity there are now camcorders recording hunts in the Cotswolds and across Yorkshire; monitors are better protected by bodycams on Salisbury Plain and in Somerset; there are trailcams set up in Derbyshireand West Yorkshire; and groups can keep in better contact with each other with radios you helped fund in Shropshire, Cheshire, and East Yorkshire. 

And we’re only getting started!