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The Gundog Club is delighted to announce
that a new charity “The Gundog Trust” is has been
established. This charity will be dedicated to the
welfare and training of working gundogs.
Why are we forming a new
Charity?
Half of all the pedigree pet dogs registered in the
UK are gundogs. We believe that a charity
dedicated to gundog welfare will be able to achieve
a wide range of benefits for gundogs and their
owners for generations to come.
Many gundog owners struggle with their dogs, and
many gundogs sadly end up in rescue centres.
In the five years since it was launched, the Gundog
Club has been overwhelmed with the volume of gundog
owners asking for advice and help with their dogs.
In the vast majority of cases, the
missing element in their dog's lives is training.
Appropriate training and management based around the
needs of these highly specialised dogs is in many
cases crucial to their happy co-existence within
human families.
The
Gundog Club was formed to administer a properly
constructed system of Graded Training devised by its
founder. This kind of structured training
programme with national recognisable standards is
the foundation of almost all sports throughout the
world. And has proven hugely popular with
gundog owners in the UK since it was introduced via
the Gundog Club
The
Gundog Club was launched in 2006 as privately owned business
guided by social objectives. Its mission is
to help struggling and novice gundog owners to
complete their dogs’ training and to introduce more
members of the gundog owning public to the pleasures
and benefits of gundog fieldwork.
For
some time now, the
Gundog Club directors have been considering ways to
ensure that these social objectives could be permanently protected
and preserved for public benefit, and
in which further opportunities for gundog welfare
could be embraced.
It
was felt that the time was approaching for the
Gundog Training Awards that mark each stage of the
Graded Training Scheme, and the Instructor
Accreditation system set up to put students in touch
with good instructors, to be managed by
a non profit organisation. A number of
different routes were considered for achieving this
goal.
In
June 2011 a final decision was made, and the Gundog
Club directors passed the ownership of the Gundog
Club in its entirety, into the hands of a newly
formed charity: The Gundog Trust.
What are our objectives?
“The Gundog Trust” has been chosen as the name for
our new charity and the overall aim of the charity
will be to “promote and protect the welfare of all
gundogs and the future of gundog fieldwork in the
United Kingdom and beyond”
Read more about our
charitable objects
The
Gundog Trust will be concerned with the promotion of
humane and positive methods of gundog training, with
educating the public as to the benefits of gundog
fieldwork, with the education and professional
development of gundog instructors, and with the
provision of a non-competitive Graded Training and
Awards scheme for gundogs in training. It will also
be concerned with the
protection and promotion of gundog fieldwork
opportunities, and with access to these fieldwork
opportunities for the gundog owning public.
A significant role of this new organisation will be
to ensure that the Graded
Training scheme, will be protected and preserved for
public benefit. Thus ensuring that the scheme which has
already introduced many thousands of
newcomers to gundog fieldwork, is forever dedicated
to the welfare and training of gundogs.
We
need your help to launch The Gundog Trust.
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