the 338 network
338 works with a small number of specialist firms and partners, selected over time and chosen for the same standards the firm applies to its own work. These relationships are practical rather than promotional. They exist because the work sometimes requires a capability, a geography, or a specialism that is better delivered by an expert who has spent a career developing it, and because the kind of client 338 takes on deserves the right specialist, not the nearest one.
Three of these relationships are described below. The wider network remains private.
WMS Firearms Training
WMS Firearms Training Ltd delivers world class rifle training and instructional days for private firearms users from around the world, as well as professional clients including airports, conservation organisations, expedition teams, zoos and wildlife parks, NGOs and government departments. Led by Andrew Venables, who brings more than forty years of experience in firearms training and safe shooting solutions, WMS operates across extensive training areas in mid Wales and on suitable sites throughout the UK and overseas.
338 Solutions maintains a long standing and trusted relationship with WMS, having collaborated on numerous projects and specialist training tasks both in the UK and internationally. Through this partnership, 338 Solutions can provide secure travel and protection from any global location directly to the chosen WMS training site, ensuring clients arrive safely, discreetly and fully supported throughout their journey.
WMS offers bespoke shooting experiences for high net worth individuals, dignitaries, corporate groups and families, as well as tailored training for individuals or teams preparing to operate in hostile or austere environments.
Finder Global
A specialist high-risk advisory and operational support firm, founded by a former British Army Pathfinder, with extensive frontline experience in some of the most difficult environments in the world, including Ukraine, the Levant, and across Africa. Finder Global brings the kind of ground-level understanding that cannot be acquired from a desk and that a client travelling into a volatile environment rightly expects the firm accompanying them to have.
Where 338's work takes clients into hostile or austere terrain, Finder Global supports the engagement with tailored risk assessments, hostile environment planning, and real-time operational guidance. The relationship means that the intelligence picture on the ground is assembled and held by people whose careers have been spent in exactly this kind of work.
