Rural Footprint — Phase 1
Hunting with Hounds and Terriers
Step two
Which best describes you?
Hunt Club Committee
This survey is for Hunt Club Committee members and Masters. It captures club-level revenue, expenditure, membership, charitable activity, and supplier spending.
Start this pathway →Hunt Staff
This survey is for paid hunt staff including huntsmen, whippers-in, kennel staff, earth stoppers, countrymen and grooms. It captures employment conditions, earnings, family dependency, training, and career pathways.
Start this pathway →Riders / Members
This survey is for riding members of hunt clubs. It captures your annual spend on horses, equipment, transport, veterinary care, farriery, insurance, and clothing connected to your hunting activity.
Start this pathway →Supporters & Followers
This survey is for people who follow or support hunting but do not ride — foot followers, car followers, supporters at meets, and social members. Your spend and participation matters and is often overlooked in economic analyses of hunting.
Start this pathway →Landowners & Farmers
This survey is for landowners and farmers who give access to their land for hunting. It captures fallen stock services, land access arrangements, economic benefit, and the relationship between the farming and hunting communities.
Start this pathway →Equine Industry
This survey is for businesses and individuals working in the equine industry whose revenue is connected to hunting activity. This includes vets, farriers, feed merchants, bedding suppliers, livery yards, transport operators, sales yards, marts, and other equine services.
Start this pathway →Local Businesses
This survey is for local businesses — pubs, cafes, restaurants, hotels, B&Bs, shops, and other services — whose revenue is connected to hunting activity and the people associated with it.
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What this survey covers
The ground covered by Phase 1
- Hunt club committee finances, expenditure, membership, and charitable activity
- Hunt staff employment, hours, earnings, family dependency, and career pathway
- Landowner and farmer land access, fallen stock services, and economic benefit
- Rider and member annual spend on horses, equipment, transport, farriery, and veterinary care
- Supporter and follower attendance, local spend, travel, and social connection
- Equine industry revenue — vets, farriers, feed, livery, transport, sales yards, and marts
- Local business revenue attributable to hunt activity — pubs, cafes, B&Bs, shops, and services
Research responses do not ask for your name or contact details. If you choose to provide contact details for follow-up, they will be stored separately from your research responses.
Findings are published only in aggregate — as totals and patterns — never as individual responses.
Rural Footprint is a campaign project commissioned by FACE Ireland.