On the road
THE Gamekeepers’ Welfare Trust (GWT) is celebrating its 30th anniversary in 2022 with the Year of the Gamekeeper and CEO Helen Benson has risen to the occasion), she is heading south from Castle of Mey, Caithness, to Land’s End in Cornwall, then east to Sandringham in Norfolk, employing any means of transport used by keepers, stalkers, gillies and fishing guides in their work. In her first 500 miles, she has travelled by vintage Land Rover, tractor and even pony and trap—but the hardest journey by far has been by train, as Smartie struggled to negotiate the station’s stairs.
