* Please note these are the 2021 speakers, updated lineup coming soon
Keynote Theatre
Across both days of the show, the Keynote Theatre will present inspirational, expert-led sessions from some of the industry’s leading organisations and most reputable professionals.
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Wednesday
Annabel Sunnucks - Glamping at Rankins Farm
Breaking the barrier of fear for diversification
11.00 - 11.30
Branching out into something new, when all you’ve ever known is farming can be a daunting thought. This seminar will cover our experience of breaking the barrier to new business opportunities, moving away from a family tradition of decades into a new unknown industry. Touching on the different options and support available, the challenges and opportunities we faced through our transformation from an unstable, unpredictable business to the complete opposite.
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Dani Kilsby-Steele and Louise Newton - Bidwells
Diversification - Breathing life and value into rural places and spaces
11.45 - 12.15
Now more than ever, there is a growing need to diversify. We will show you how to identify opportunities to utilise your existing land and buildings, whilst also considering the wider strategy of your holding, finding innovative and viable solutions in both the short and longer term. We will discuss projects where we have obtained challenging and unusual planning consents, adding value and creating alternative means of income.
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Brady Last - EY Breakthrough Incentives
Cash for Innovators
12.30 - 13.00
Why farming qualifies for innovation? How do you make a claim? What are the benefits?
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Ian Bell - FOLK2FOLK
How to Fund Your Diversification Project
13.15 - 13.45
Find out how others have diversified and how they funded it. FOLK2FOLK specialise in enabling farm and rural businesses access the finance needed for diversification projects, offering business loans from £100,000, and using land or property assets as security. Ian Bell OBE, Head of Farming & Rural Engagement, will showcase projects including glamping sites, farm retail and barn conversions into holiday lets.
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Louise and Richard Pullan - Breaks Fold Farm
Looking To The Future Through Diversification and Environmental Farming
14.00 - 14.30
An insight into diversifying your farm or land with hospitality businesses. A look into exempted organisations such as The Freedom Camping Club. Outside the box thinking is the name of the game in diversification. How environmental farming is part of the future, a look into Yorkshire Water’s Beyond Nature Scheme. Richard and Louise will share their journey from struggling farm to thriving diversification, and all the ups and downs along the way.
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Kelly Chandler - Kelly Chandler Wedding Consulting
Does YOUR Property or Land Have What it Takes to Host Weddings?
14.45 - 15.15
Wedding venue expert and consultant, Kelly Chandler gives you an open-book run through into what the modern wedding couple expects and demands of a potential venue and how the industry works to help you explore your potential place in it.
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Stefania Bennett - Bennetts Willow Barn
Diversifying our dairy farm: my experience
15.30 - 16.00
Farming is not easy these days, and dairy farming is a real struggle. To keep our fifth generation farm farming, we knew we needed to diversify. Cue Worcester Glamping in 2013, a milk round in 2020, and an ambitious farm café and events venue in July 2021. These diversifications all have one aim: to help us keep farming by giving us a direct source of sales with the general public.
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Thursday
Milly Fyfe - Milly Fyfe Marketing and PR Services
The Countryside Kitchen meets – A Food and Farming podcast
11.00 - 11.30
In the height of the Covid pandemic, Milly Fyfe launched an interactive food blog called ‘No Fuss Meals for Busy Parents’ to help provide a connection between food produced in the UK and how to make tasty meals the whole family can enjoy. Hear how the project has evolved, how the Countryside Kitchen meets podcast came about and how you can get involved too
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Robert and Michelle Sullivan - The Artisan Grower
From the City to the Farm - Becoming an Agriprenuer
11.45 - 12.15
Our story of how and why we moved our family from a city environment to life in the countryside. How we transferred our city skills to start a farm with no farming background and stayed afloat, even in uncertain times, by remaining flexible and adapting to meet the needs of potential customers.
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Prof Paul Thomas - Mycorrhizal Systems Ltd
High Value Truffles: How to Cultivate Them on Your Land
12.30 - 13.00
You’ll learn what truffles are, how much they’re worth and the conditions needed to cultivate them. Prof Paul Thomas will discuss all aspects of the truffle business including technical requirements, set-up costs and grant availability, as well as expected yields, income and product distribution. This seminar will be of interest to anyone looking to diversify their land and grow truffle trees as an investment or just for fun.
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Kelly Chandler - Kelly Chandler Wedding Consulting
Growing Your Profits By Hosting Weddings Without Playing The Volume Game
13.15 - 13.45
Wedding venue expert and consultant, Kelly Chandler, gives you her advice on achieving more for less in the wedding market. It’s easy to go the volume route but volume isn’t right for all businesses. Kelly shines a light on alternative ways of operating and increasing profit so that you can consider if you REALLY want more wedding enquiries and bookings after all.
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Richard Corbett - Roger Parry and Partners LLP
Future of Traditional Farming
14.00 - 14.30
Traditional Farming is going through a difficult time at the moment with lots of challenges, to mention a few Brexit, veganism and anti red meat, rising land prices from lifestyle buyers and the future of Basic Payment. Our presentation will look at the options our farms have for maximizing income from the land and diversification.
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Joshua Riddett - Easy Crypto Hunter
Farming and Blockchain: Yield Up To 72% Annual Returns
15.30 - 16.00
Our farming clients have yielded up to 72% yearly (equivalently 40p/kWh) with our solution. Blockchain technology, just like the internet requires a lot of computing power. We manufacture Blockchain servers which, as the owner of these servers, you get paid for renting out computer power. Effectively you’ll turn your farm into a mini data centre and earn completely passively, substantially better returns than alternative investments.
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