About Forward with Hounds

Forward with Hounds is an independent association launched in July 2024 by keen hunting people dedicated to promoting the evolution of trail hunting and modern hound work in a way that will ensure a long-term future for the wonderful activity of following and working with hounds.

With this in mind, Forward with Hounds will focus on two main initiatives.

The first is to stimulate a vigorous exchange of ideas and an ongoing debate on how trail hunting can evolve in all the different environments where it is practised, from the shires to the fells.

The second is to introduce a Trail Hunting Excellence Award, something like a Michelin Star for restaurants, with the aims of 

1) inspiring true excellence in trail hunting, 

2) helping the best practitioners to promote their hunts to subscribers, supporters, and the wider community in which they operate, and 

3) helping hunts to defuse opposition to their activities by showing that such opposition is entirely unjustified.