Welcome to the Union of Country Sports Workers website, the only listed Trade Union dedicated to country sports employees.

JOIN US whether you are employed in or a supporter of country sports.

The UCSW represents all those employed in the country sports industry and their ancillary trades including:

Gamekeepers, beaters, gun dog trainers, gunsmiths, game dealers, pickers up, farriers, grooms, livery workers, hunt staff, terriermen, fencers, saddlers, stalkers, ghillies, vets, B&B’s, farmers, cooks, accountants, point-to-point trainers, racing yards, jockeys, fishermen, river wardens and bailiffs, coursing, falconry, mole catchers and pest controllers.

• Advisory service including employment & housing issues
• Personal Injury Claims Service
• Membership Magazine and Benefits
• Membership from just £15 per annum...

Contact us: UCSW, PO Box 129, Banbury, Oxon, OX17 2HX

Email: office@ucsw.org   
 
Tel: 01295 712719


QUICK LINKS....

1.  Worcester Racecourse Countryside Family Race Day

    Come and enjoy an afternoon's racing at Worcester Racecourse on:
   
    SUNDAY 10th JUNE 2012

    UCSW will be there along with bassets, gun-smithing, farriery
    demonstrations, country sports photographs and more.  Free children's
    entertainment.

    Gates open at 12.30pm.  UCSW members can purchase tickets, 2 for
    the price of 1, for entry to the County Enclosure by calling: 01905 25364
    and quoting your membership number.  (All discounted tickets need to be
    purchased before 12 noon on 8 June 2012.) Accompanied under 18's free.

    For more information click HERE
  
  
2.  FOX DUMPING - Is it fact or fiction? - Help our research

     Read more about what we are trying to achieve HERE

     Download a form HERE and tell us what you know.
 

3.  Discounted membership to CCC3 for UCSW Members, which
      includes insurance:

• information on CCC3 membership
• how to join
• CCC3 insurance policy
   

4.  Exclusive cartoon notelets

     Print off and send the order form from HERE

    or

    Send us an email with your request using the information on the form
    and pay through the Donate button on this page
 

5.  JOIN the UCSW - FROM ONLY £15 PER ANNUM


6.  Newsletters
 

7.  Rural Recruits

Photographs by kind courtesy of Nigel Housden (www.pinsharpphotography.co.uk)