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Mount Falcon retreat in Irish Independent |
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Monday, 29 June 2009 |
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 On Monday 29th June 2009 the Irish Independent published a feature on the recent Casting for Recovery retreat at the Mount Falcon hotel and fishery, County Mayo. The feature is about the first ever retreat in the Republic of Ireland, lets the lady participants speak for themselves and reveals why CfR's brand of therapy is so necessary. In the words of one participant: "....on the retreat, there was one woman who mentioned that it had been 20 years since she had had cancer and at that moment, I could feel my shoulders relax. You think, OK, this isn't a death sentence and it isn't necessarily going to come back. I suppose I hadn't realised just how heavily that had been weighing on me." Read "Real Life: Hooked on fishing therapy" by Liz Kearney.
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Thursday, 25 June 2009 |
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 Countryside Alliance Chief Executive Simon Hart highlights our concerns about a proposed new body: On Tuesday 30th June the Government’s consultation on ‘a new independent body for animal health’ concludes. You will not be surprised to learn that the real purpose of the Government’s proposals is not obvious from the title. Defra says that it wants to create a new independent body, but the proposal is actually to take over 240 staff and associated costs out of Defra and with it direct responsibility for ‘exotic disease outbreaks’. And it wants animal keepers to pay for the majority of the costs associated with the prevention and control of such diseases.
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Cooking is Game with Alliance Campaign! |
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Friday, 19 June 2009 |
 The Countryside Alliance’s Game-to-Eat campaign has teamed up with TV Chef Mark Hix to produce a booklet containing seasonal game cooking recipe ideas. The booklet contains a step by step guide showing how to produce dishes such as roast partridge with mushrooms and autumn greens or braised venison with carrots, all taken from Mark Hix’s new book – the appropriately named “Seasonal Food”.
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Hague gives hunts confidence |
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Thursday, 11 June 2009 |
 Simon Hart reports back from an encouraging AGM for the Masters of Foxhounds Association: This week I was a guest at the Masters of Foxhounds Association AGM held on Tuesday in the City of London. The main speaker was William Hague MP, Shadow Foreign Secretary whose speech, it is fair to say, gave the 400 assembled masters and chairmen everything they wanted to hear and more. He repeated the Conservative commitment to give Parliament the opportunity to repeal the Hunting Act by way of a Government Bill in Government time on a free vote. More than that he gave everyone in the room absolute confidence that the commitment would be speedily delivered.
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New Countryside Alliance clothing range |
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Friday, 19 June 2009 |
 The Countryside Alliance has once again teamed up with Splash Clothing so members and supporters can support them through a new collection of country clothing which they can personalise. Splash Clothing produced the popular “Liberty and Livelihood” rugby and polo shirts in 2002 but this time the partnership with the Countryside Alliance enables wearers to choose from a range of slogans whilst supporting the Alliance’s work. The Alliance will get a donation for each garment sold.
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Thursday, 09 August 2007 |
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 The Countryside Alliance's events listing is constantly updated and aims to keep you in touch with rural events of interest across the UK. Show dates including the Game Fair, the last ever Royal Show and Peterborough are now available.
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