Countryside Alliance

I joined @GBNewsOnline yesterday morning to highlight how managing fuel load via muirburn is a powerful land management strategy that helps to prevent the wildfires which are currently raging across the countryside. Watch now ⬇️ youtube.com/watch?v=SMjqE8…

Andy Burnham must be more supportive of rural life than his predecessor, argues Johnnie Furse thecritic.co.uk/why-labour-nee…

My piece on @BASCnews victory in the courts and what that means for the relationship between the countryside, government and quangos. Not-so Natural England thecritic.co.uk/not-so-natural…

“Natural England, the Environment Agency and others perform vital functions, but they exist to deliver the will of Parliament, not to pursue agendas of their own” writes @CA_TimB following @BASCnews significant victory in the High Court last week⬇️ thecritic.co.uk/not-so-natural…

If you love our Scottish landscapes as much as we do, please consider signing the Charter for the Open Hill. For more information on this, please visit the webpage - hill-charter.scot or contact admin@hill-charter.scot

A pleasure to be here at the Game Fair 2026. Come over, say hello and find out more about our work on the front line defending the rural way of life. We are at stand E932, next to the Carter Jonas theatre (look for their blimp). See you soon!

Our reaction to business rate cut for pubs via @Independent and @DavidPBMaddox 🍺

Andy Burnham has a chance to reset relations with rural Britain - but the countryside is watching, writes Mo Metcalf-Fisher of the Countryside Alliance #DailyExpress #Echobox=1784641084" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">express.co.uk/news/politics/…

📣 Rural campaigners have launched a Peterborough billboard urging Andy Burnham to reset relations with the countryside The campaign challenges tax changes affecting farms, alongside proposals on game shooting and gamebird releases READ MORE: farminguk.com/news/billboard…

Great to see @Jenny4SuffCoast getting the call up to serve as @DefraGovUK Minister from her very rural and coastal constituency. We called for Andy Burnham to recognise the very capable rural MPs elected in 2024 last month.

This rate cut is a welcome relief for rural pubs, which act as vital community hubs in some of the most isolated parts of our country. It's encouraging that Andy Burnham has set about easing some of the burdens publicans face so early in his premiership. However, coming off the back of steep valuation increases and mounting cost pressures from policies include National Insurance hikes, there is still a huge amount that needs to be done to protect pubs for the long term. We need fundamental reform to how business rates affect the hospitality sector.

🐴 A victory for Dartmoor's iconic ponies. The government has announced new measures that will ensure farmers no longer have to choose between keeping Dartmoor's hill ponies and maintaining viable livestock businesses. 📖 Read more: countryside-alliance.org/news-content-t…

@LibDemDavid Thanks for stopping by!

Catching up on rural affairs is what the Royal Welsh is all about! Thank you for finding time for us - and the delicious pheasant kebabs…

Great video by @CarolPoyerPeett of one of the hound parades at the Royal Welsh Show. Just look at the size of that crowd cheering on, demonstrating the popularity of trail hunting.

📣@BenWallace70 addressing crowd at the Festival of Hounds in Peterborough. He urges Andy Burnham and the government to reset its relationship with rural people and drop the toxic culture war.

Could your photo feature in our 2027 calendar? We're looking for stunning rural pictures for our 2027 calendar, and we'd love to showcase your best work. To enter, send images with your name to digital@countryside-alliance.org by Sunday 23 August 2026. Happy snapping! 📸

Let’s hope Andy Burnham resets the government’s relationship with rural people! Out and about in Peterborough and the surrounding villages today. Honk honk.

Great to meet with @LibDemDavid and Alistair Carmichael today at the @royalwelshshow to talk all things rural and to thank them for all their hard work on the ridiculous inheritance tax.

“Yesterday, Mr Burnham made a pointed reference to “wrong turns” implemented in the 1980s. He blamed these policies as being central to many of the problems Britons experience today. To many in the countryside, including an entire generation of young farmers, however, the effects of “wrong turns” are being felt from policies enacted far more recently than 40 years ago”… “With near-on daily dramatic events in the theatre of politics it is easy to forget one political fallout from the next. Be in no doubt, however, that the pain felt by the Family Farm Tax is very much alive across the countryside… “The countryside wants to play its part in building a “national sense of unity, of common purpose and positivity”. But if "change" turns out to be nothing more than a repeat of past mistakes, rural people will feel sidelined, let down and hurt. Hope cannot be confined solely to the towns and cities. Mr Burnham must bring rural people on that journey too.   “We all wish the Prime Minister and his team well in that endeavour. Let’s have no more “wrong turns”. Read my full piece for the @Daily_Express below⬇️