Countryside Alliance in cash crisis

4 August 2000



Countryside Alliance in cash crisis

by FWi staff

THE Countryside Alliance faces a financial crisis after running up 750,000 in legal bills, according to a report in The Times.

The law firm Allen & Overy made the charge for preparing the alliances submission to the Governments hunting inquiry, says the paper.

The organisation has doubled its membership fees and hunts have been asked to donate 20% of their reserves or to double their hunt levy for one year, it adds.

Alliance officials are trying to raise 6 million pay for their campaign against a ban on hunting. They are also campaigning for pro-rural government policies.

• The Times, 4 August 2000, page 10
• Politicians failing rural people Alliance, FWi, 25 October 1999
• Countryside march served its purpose, FWi, 02 March 1998
• 
  Countryside Alliance in crisis, FWi, 12 August 1998