Conservative Friends of the Countryside is a grassroots activist lobby group dedicated to protecting, preserving, and promoting the rural way of life.

Rooted in conservative values of stewardship, property rights, local decision-making, and national heritage, we stand up for the farmers, landowners, rural businesses, and countryside communities who are too often overlooked in national policy debates. We believe the countryside is not a museum piece to be managed from afar, nor a blank canvas for ideological experiments — it is a living, working landscape that sustains livelihoods, traditions, and food security.

Our mission is to ensure that rural voices are heard clearly and confidently at every level of government. We campaign for practical, common-sense policies that:

• Defend private property rights

• Support British farming and food production

• Protect country sports and rural traditions

• Promote responsible environmental stewardship

• Strengthen rural economies and infrastructure

• Resist overregulation that harms working landscapes

Through research, advocacy, public campaigning, and direct engagement with policymakers, we challenge legislation that threatens the countryside and advance solutions that respect those who live and work on the land.

We are proud to champion a vision of the countryside that is productive, prosperous, and preserved for future generations — not through bureaucracy, but through responsibility, tradition, and community.

If you care about rural Britain and believe its future should be shaped by the people who know it best, get in touch with your ideas.

The most beautiful, bountiful areas of our nation are being threatened by misinformed, arguably, well-meaning individuals and organisations that are detached from the countryside, its heritage and practices. Our aim is to protect what is left of our land and wildlife from inappropriate legislation and regulation.

We cannot achieve our goals alone. Find out how you can help.