Welcome to the Falconry Heritage Trust Website

The Falconry Heritage Trust:

• Free access to all through the Internet
• Working with the world’s falconry clubs through the International Association for Falconry
• Supporting regional archives of falconry artefacts
• Ensuring that irreplaceable items and records are not lost
• Linking falconers in 60 countries.

Aims:

• An information hub for world falconry, conservation and breeding
• Ensuring a good image for world falconry
• Promoting access to physical archives
• Linking all physical archives and promoting access
• Providing source material for the media.

How will it work?

• Artefacts can be physically gifted to the Trust
• Alternatively they may remain with the owners or their heirs, but will be recorded by the Trust, copied or photographed for posterity
• Artefacts may be gifted to the Trust on death of the owner
• The website will be the sole method of accessing the archive
• Physical access may be available at the discretion of the trustees, and the owner
• Items will be added regionally through a committee of editors
• Access to the Falconry Heritage Trust website will be free but downloading of archive material may attract a usage charge or subscription.

What will be on the Trust website?

• Historical material – manuscripts, texts, art
• Images of physical items – hoods, bells, gloves etc
• Photo archive
• Film archive
• Law archive
• Educational material for modern falconry

The Falconry Heritage Trust will provide links to items in independent collections such as:

• National and regional falconry clubs
• Other national collections
• Academics
• Private collectors.

The Falconry Heritage Trust is inviting applications for grants and scholarships.
More details are in News section.