This is necessary due to the fragmented governance of target shooting sports in the UK, with different disciplines managed by the CPSA, NRA and NSRA amongst others.

The organisation got off to a rocky start, underperforming at the 2008 Beijing Olympics and seeing their funding for the next four year cycle cut by 78%, reducing the number of supported athletes from forty-six to just five.

[8] Since 2007, British Shooting's performance programmes have produced a number of World and European Champions in Rifle and Shotgun.

In 2019 Seonaid went on to be the first female rifle shooter from Britain to win a Gold Medal at an ISSF World Cup event.

At the 2022 European Shotgun Championships, Lucy Hall won Silver in the Women's Trap, which earned a quota place to the 2026 Olympic Games.