ResQ (E. Yorks)

“ResQ wanted to change perceptions on outsourcing, with a firm belief that there was a better way of doing things. Our aim was for clients to trust us to look after their customers, rather than viewing outsourcing as purely transactional.” We’re not entirely sure what any of that means, but we do know that Chairman Nic Marshall rides with and is the committee chair of the Holderness Hunt (which has featured on Protect the Wild on numerous occasions) and was recorded telling a monitor from Hull Wildlife Protectors in January 2025 that a member of the police was riding with the hunt. In September 2025 he told monitors that “the gloves were off”. What that means we won’t speculate, but it’s interesting to note that for an apparently hands-on businessman he approaches hunting very differently: ever the ‘outsourcer’, in the September video Mr Marshall also says that he is not responsible for anything the hunt might or might not have done in the past – just like so many hunt supporters before him, in other words, who claim to have nothing to do with the offences committed by the hunts they follow and even ride with…