16 Facts About Countryside Alliance

Countryside Alliance is a British organisation promoting issues relating to the countryside such as farming, rural services, small businesses and field sports, aiming to "Give Rural Britain a voice".

Countryside Alliance was formed on 10 July 1997 from three organisations: the British Field Sports Society, the Countryside Business Group, and the Countryside Movement.

The Alliance was formed to help promote and defend the British countryside and rural life, both in the media and in Parliament.

Since then, the Countryside Alliance has campaigned on a number of issues which they believe are important to rural Britain.

Countryside Alliance Foundation is the charitable arm of the organisation.

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Countryside Alliance Awards is a national awards scheme set up in 2006, known as The Rural Oscars.

In 2019, the Countryside Alliance stated that it had received over 17,000 nominations.

Countryside Alliance provides a number of guides for its members and the wider public that relate to crimes often associated as common rural crimes.

In November 2019, the Countryside Alliance produced a report which detailed the number of crimes recorded by police forces at churches and other religious buildings in England, Wales and Northern Ireland using powers under Freedom of Information laws.

Countryside Alliance promotes the annual Boxing Day Meet of registered hunts throughout the United Kingdom, using an online mapping tool.

Countryside Alliance publicly opposed a policy announcement by the Labour Party in November 2019, which pledged to nationalise broadband and provide free full-fibre broadband by 2030.

Countryside Alliance has long defended hunting and shooting, especially hunting with hounds, opposing the legislation which came into effect in England and Wales in February 2005.

The Countryside Alliance mounted a series of legal challenges to the Hunting Act 2004 which were not met with success.

Critics of the Countryside Alliance claim that this is the sole focus of the organisation, a claim it denies, saying that this campaigning is a response to the government's "preoccupation with the issue".

In September 2002, the Countryside Alliance organised a march in central London to promote the interests of rural Britain.

Countryside Alliance has previously expressed repeated concern over the governance of the RSPCA, which it argues has resulted in the charity pursuing "extremely questionable activities".