9.30am registration - 10am presentations – 1pm lunch – 2.00pm tours
Cost £15 CLA members; £25 non-members
At Ugbrooke there is an additional charge payable at the venue for the afternoon tour of £5.00 pp
Wednesday 12 October – Ugbrooke Park, Chudleigh, Devon TQ13 0AD
Tuesday 18 October – Chavenage House, Tetbury, Gloucestershire GL8 8XP
Wednesday 19 October – Hamptworth Estate, Salisbury, Wiltshire SP5 2DR
We are continuing the tradition of holding our annual finance events at some wonderful settings in the West Country. This autumn you can join us for a morning of essential financial advice followed by a two course lunch of local produce and an exclusive guided tour of the venue with our hosts.
The seminars will look at the following topics:
• The latest ideas on minimising Inheritance Tax
• Planning for succession – what to consider
• Agricultural and Property Reliefs – an update
• How to hedge the single farm payment
• Tax efficient trading structures
• Effective management of pensions and investments
Following each seminar there will be a Q&A session with a panel of experts including representatives from CLA Tax Management Services, Roger Halle from CLA Independent Financial Planners, Tom Barclay from CLA Foreign Exchange Services and Will Richards from CLA Fine Art. In addition we will also hear from Jeremy Mitchell from CLA Insurance Services who will talk specifically about insuring estates, farms and diversified businesses.
Ugbrooke House
Ugbrooke House has been the home of the Cliffords since 1564 and is the present Clifford family’s private home. The nation’s history has sported Clifford names in war, politics and religion. The present house was re-modelled in the 1760’s by Robert Adam, the Chapel and Library Wing (where we will hold our seminar) are authentic and characteristic of Adam’s castle style.
Ugbrooke Park is a good example of the work of Capability Brown. The gardens include a box parterre planted over two hundred years ago, a secluded Spanish garden, unusual semi-tropical trees and shrubs and a lakeside walk to the waterslash.
The house contains fine furniture, paintings, beautiful needlework, porcelain and an extremely rare family military collection. Ugbrooke has appeared in television programmes such as David Starkey’s ‘Monachy’. The house has been beautifully restored by Lady Clifford and featured in many leading ‘interiors’ magazines.
Chavenage House
Originally built in 1383, there have been additions and renovations to the property over the centuries. Since Tudor times, only two families have owned Chavenage, the current owner David Lowsley-Williams having inherited the House from his uncle.
Chavenage has been used as a film/TV location on many occasions – an episode of Poirot was shot there, the comedy series ‘Grace & Favour’, an episode of the BBC medical drama Casualty, and recently the house doubled as Sir Timothy Midwinter’s Manor House in ‘Lark Rise to Candleford’. It was seen in the BBC series Bone Kickers and Tess of the D’Urbervilles and featured in BBC3’s ‘For the Love of Barbara’.
We will tour this wonderful Elizabethan home and learn of the two families that have occupied the house since the reign of Elizabeth I together with the legends and stories including the ghosts!
Hamptworth Estate
Situated on the northern edge of the New Forest National Park, half way between Southampton and Salisbury on the Wiltshire/Hampshire border is the beautiful Hamptworth Estate. We will be hosted by Donald Anderson, whose family home it has been for just over 200 years. Hamptworth dates back many centuries and it is thought that the first house was built on the current site of Hamptworth Lodge in around 1620 AD.
The house underwent extensive alteration during the late Georgian and Victorian period and when the present owner's grandfather, Harold Moffatt inherited the estate in 1910, he pulled the house down and rebuilt it as he thought it might well have been in its original form.
The brickwork designs are particularly fine and a feature was made of drain pipes and guttering. Some of the leaded windows have diamond cut inscriptions. Internally, Moffat made much of the furniture himself and these pieces are an accurate copy of the Jacobean Style.
The Estate itself is made up of 3,000 acres of glorious parkland, gardens and woodland and it is forestry that supports the Estate today.
To book your place go to www.regonline.co.uk/claswevents or call 01249 700200.
Friday, September 23, 2011
Thursday, September 22, 2011
Pillars of Strength - CAP Reform Going Forward (Sponsored by Strutt & Parker)
Cost £10
The European Commission will announce its final proposals for a new direct payment, rural development and financing regulations in early October opening a consultation process likely to last until 2012.
The CLA has been one of only a few organisations fighting for a sufficiently well funded CAP – and the Agriculture Commissioner has listened to our argument that the CAP must be maintained on the grounds of food and environmental security. But a flurry of leaked documents has raised speculation about mandatory greening in pillar one, capping and the definitions of an active farmer.
There are further concerns over the issue of new entitlements and the specifics of mandatory greening.
All this is set against a backdrop of an EU budget which has already been drawn up – but the share of the CAP within the budget and how the CAP resources are to be redistributed between the Member States and between the two Pillars are areas of uncertainty which could have important implications for the UK.
But the fight on the CAP budget is not over yet and the negotiations that follow the publication of these proposals will be crucial. These proposals have now to be agreed with the European Council and the European Parliament and the questions of exactly what the CLA should be arguing for on behalf of our farmers and land managers needs to be resolved.
This is your chance to take part in that process and to hear Emeritus Professor Allan Buckwell, the CLA’s expert on CAP, speak on the subject together with Simon Butcher, a farm business consultant from Strutt and Parker, at a series of events the CLA is organising across the South West region.
Registration & refreshments from 10.00am & 3.00pm
Wednesday 23 November 2011 10.30am – 12.30pm
Tunnell House Inn, Tarlton Road, Nr Cirencester, Gloucestershire GL7 6PW
Wednesday 23 November 2011 3.30pm – 5.30pm
Salisbury and South Wilts Golf Club, Netherhampton Road, Netherhampton
Salisbury, Wiltshire SP2 8PR
Thursday 24 November 2011 10.30am – 12.30pm
The Monks Yard, Horton Cross Farm, Horton Cross, Ilminster, Somerset
TA19 9PT
Thursday 24 November 2011 3.30pm – 5.30pm
The Arundell Arms, Lifton, PL16 0AA
To book go to www.regonline.co.uk/claswevents or telephone 01249 700200.
The European Commission will announce its final proposals for a new direct payment, rural development and financing regulations in early October opening a consultation process likely to last until 2012.
The CLA has been one of only a few organisations fighting for a sufficiently well funded CAP – and the Agriculture Commissioner has listened to our argument that the CAP must be maintained on the grounds of food and environmental security. But a flurry of leaked documents has raised speculation about mandatory greening in pillar one, capping and the definitions of an active farmer.
There are further concerns over the issue of new entitlements and the specifics of mandatory greening.
All this is set against a backdrop of an EU budget which has already been drawn up – but the share of the CAP within the budget and how the CAP resources are to be redistributed between the Member States and between the two Pillars are areas of uncertainty which could have important implications for the UK.
But the fight on the CAP budget is not over yet and the negotiations that follow the publication of these proposals will be crucial. These proposals have now to be agreed with the European Council and the European Parliament and the questions of exactly what the CLA should be arguing for on behalf of our farmers and land managers needs to be resolved.
This is your chance to take part in that process and to hear Emeritus Professor Allan Buckwell, the CLA’s expert on CAP, speak on the subject together with Simon Butcher, a farm business consultant from Strutt and Parker, at a series of events the CLA is organising across the South West region.
Registration & refreshments from 10.00am & 3.00pm
Wednesday 23 November 2011 10.30am – 12.30pm
Tunnell House Inn, Tarlton Road, Nr Cirencester, Gloucestershire GL7 6PW
Wednesday 23 November 2011 3.30pm – 5.30pm
Salisbury and South Wilts Golf Club, Netherhampton Road, Netherhampton
Salisbury, Wiltshire SP2 8PR
Thursday 24 November 2011 10.30am – 12.30pm
The Monks Yard, Horton Cross Farm, Horton Cross, Ilminster, Somerset
TA19 9PT
Thursday 24 November 2011 3.30pm – 5.30pm
The Arundell Arms, Lifton, PL16 0AA
To book go to www.regonline.co.uk/claswevents or telephone 01249 700200.
Bringing Common Sense to Tree Management
Stock Gaylard Estate, Stock Gaylard, Sturminster Newton, DT10 2BG
Tuesday 15 November – 2pm – 5.30pm
Cost £15 CLA members; £25 non-members
The venue is CLA member Andrew Langmead’s Stock Gaylard Estate, a small traditional country estate situated between Sturminster Newton and Sherborne in Dorset. The estate is approximately 1700 acres with around 300 acres of predominantly oak woodland (Quercus robur) and ash (Fraxinus Excelsior).
Stock Gaylard has a small timber yard supplying mainly home grown timbers off the estate and other locally sourced timbers. They have worked hard to understand the importance of trying to develop a sustainable timber industry within the UK and on the estate. They pride themselves in understanding the importance of cutting the timber the right way for the purpose it is intended for. They have a timber kiln for finishing off the drying process and a fully equipped wood workshop. Stock Gaylard’s timber has many uses including woodchip for their boiler, furniture, shingles and it is also used in the manufacture of their traditional Yurts.
The afternoon will kick off with a welcome and introduction to Stock Gaylard Estate and its various enterprises by owner Andrew Langmead.
Mike Seville, CLA National Forestry & Woodlands Advisor will then explain the benefits and the impact of the newly published guidance by the National Tree Safety Group "Bringing Common Sense to Tree Management".
This guidance on trees and public safety in the UK for owners, managers and advisers has been quite brave and is trying to redraw the legal landscape relating to tree safety and put it firmly in the context of real risk, other risks to which society is exposed and the benefits of trees. The CLA has been instrumental in driving this approach forward.
Garraint Richards, Duchy of Cornwall Woodlands will share his practical experience of woodland management along with his view on the current timber market. Followed by a tree disease update and forecast from the Forestry Commission. Closing with Graham Clark, CLA Regional Surveyor; explaining how members can benefit from the new Renewable Heat Incentive.
This event is not only aimed at large woodland owners and managers but also those responsible for smaller numbers of trees where members are concerned about how proactive they need to be in regards tree safety management in order to mitigate their liability to third parties.
To book your place go to www.regonline.co.uk/claswevents or call 01249 700200
Tuesday 15 November – 2pm – 5.30pm
Cost £15 CLA members; £25 non-members
The venue is CLA member Andrew Langmead’s Stock Gaylard Estate, a small traditional country estate situated between Sturminster Newton and Sherborne in Dorset. The estate is approximately 1700 acres with around 300 acres of predominantly oak woodland (Quercus robur) and ash (Fraxinus Excelsior).
Stock Gaylard has a small timber yard supplying mainly home grown timbers off the estate and other locally sourced timbers. They have worked hard to understand the importance of trying to develop a sustainable timber industry within the UK and on the estate. They pride themselves in understanding the importance of cutting the timber the right way for the purpose it is intended for. They have a timber kiln for finishing off the drying process and a fully equipped wood workshop. Stock Gaylard’s timber has many uses including woodchip for their boiler, furniture, shingles and it is also used in the manufacture of their traditional Yurts.
The afternoon will kick off with a welcome and introduction to Stock Gaylard Estate and its various enterprises by owner Andrew Langmead.
Mike Seville, CLA National Forestry & Woodlands Advisor will then explain the benefits and the impact of the newly published guidance by the National Tree Safety Group "Bringing Common Sense to Tree Management".
This guidance on trees and public safety in the UK for owners, managers and advisers has been quite brave and is trying to redraw the legal landscape relating to tree safety and put it firmly in the context of real risk, other risks to which society is exposed and the benefits of trees. The CLA has been instrumental in driving this approach forward.
Garraint Richards, Duchy of Cornwall Woodlands will share his practical experience of woodland management along with his view on the current timber market. Followed by a tree disease update and forecast from the Forestry Commission. Closing with Graham Clark, CLA Regional Surveyor; explaining how members can benefit from the new Renewable Heat Incentive.
This event is not only aimed at large woodland owners and managers but also those responsible for smaller numbers of trees where members are concerned about how proactive they need to be in regards tree safety management in order to mitigate their liability to third parties.
To book your place go to www.regonline.co.uk/claswevents or call 01249 700200
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)