Join us for the 2025 CLA Institutional Landowners’ Conference ‘Maximising the potential of your rural assets’ – an unmissable event for anyone working on behalf of, or with, institutional landowners, but equally applicable to private landowners and all professionals.

Whatever the main direction of your business investment, the multiple use of your assets will deliver a greater combined benefit. This year’s CLA Institutional Landowners’ Conference gives you the opportunity to see how others manage their rural portfolio and the benefits they deliver.

Secure your tickets today – click the ‘Book Now’ button below. To view the full programme click here.

Our speakers:

Building communities, creating places

• Kim Wilkie, Strategic and Conceptual Landscape Architect, will look at the importance of landscape within any development proposal.
• Karl Dean, Deputy Chief Officer of Grosvenor Hart Homes, will speak about its distinctive model of building affordable homes that provide real support to communities.

Achieving a positive return

• Joanna Loxton, Head of Land at Church Commissioners for England, will show how maintaining a diverse land portfolio and identifying strategic development sites can deliver long-term investment objectives.
• Roland Bull, Head of Rural Investment at Bidwells, will share how institutional investors manage property holdings to deliver on their investment objectives.

Environmental management

• Jo Harrison, Asset Management Director at United Utilities, will disclose how their upland estate is managed to enhance the environment to ensure a plentiful supply of clean water for their primary business.
• Darren Moorcroft, Chief Executive at the Woodland Trust will speak about the growth and role of woodland planting in the landscape, as part of environmental regeneration and the role of carbon markets.
• Gil Martin, Commercial and Natural Capital Director at Restore, will offer a unique insight into how natural capital is transforming land management, green finance and how to unlock a “Wild Return”.

Additional investments

• Alex Thompson, Strategy Development Senior Manager at The Crown Estate, will outline the pivotal role it played in providing access for energy generation and how its partnership delivery with GB Energy will deliver a step-change.
• Carol Hawkey, Director of Estates at Forestry England, will outline the real social benefits that its woodland and enterprises investments have delivered.

In addition to the thought-provoking presentations, there will be ample opportunity to network and share experiences. 

 

For further information please email events@cla.org.uk.