Events & Training

Venue: the Club at Mapledurham, Reading RG4 7UD Time: 7pm Julian Sayers – Director, Adkin
THE FUTURE OF UK AGRICULTURE Julian is a Director of Adkin, the leading rural property and asset management practice and will talk to us about how he see the future for UK agriculture - but with a property slant as opposed to technical farming. This includes projects he is involved with that would include letting land for a hydroponic farm scheme, land being acquired and farmed by a major new ESG investment fund, promotion and option agreements covering sites for 10 houses through to new settlements of 3,500 dwellings, leisure enterprises both small and large scale etc. Julian is also Vice President of The Farmers Club, Chairman of Trustees for The Worshipful Company of Farmers Trustee Company, Chairman of City of London Pan Livery Food Group, chairs the Tenancy Reform Industry Group for the Defra Ministers and is Vice Chairman of Trustees for The Earth Trust. In recent years, he has also been Master of The Worshipful Company of Farmers, Vice Chairman of Governors at The Royal Agricultural University , National Chairman and now a Vice President of RABI, together with being Chairman of The Oxford Farming Conference and The Farmers Club. He is also a Life Vice President of the National Federation of Young Farmers’ Clubs and an Honorary Fellow of Royal Agricultural University.
This should be a fascinating talk by Julian and If you want to attend this event, please email Giles Martin at:
gilesmrtn@aol.com
The cost to attend is £25 per head – this includes a meal etc. Pre-booking essential.

The speakers will be Matt Lobley, Professor of Rural Resource Management and Co-Director of the Centre for Rural Policy Research at the University of Exeter, and Tom Biddick, Partner in the Ashfords' trusts and Estates Team, and Agriculture Sector. Tom will be discussing the legal aspects of farming succession planning, focusing on Wills, IHT (APR and BPR) and the Balfour Principle.

A panel of speakers who will include the following; ·       Susan Stewart –  Senior Export Manager, AHDB – the main levy board for UK farming  -  Susan used to work for us (Promar/Genus) in China  for 5 years before joining AHDB ·       Carl Atkin – Director – Terravost  - agri business consultants and investors ·       Nicola Thomas -  Director  - UK Food & Drink Exporters Association (CIM member) ·       David Buck  - Eden Research -  recruitment consultants in agri food ·       a recent graduate from RAU – TBC Starting “on line” at 5.30 pm