welcome
Manor Farm Consultants is a small consultancy run by two directors who each have a lifetime's experience of working in the rural sector. Although we are based in the Midlands, we work throughout the UK, providing studies and advice tailored specifically to each client's needs.
what we do
Our in-house experience covers:
- Establishment and development of agribusinesses and cooperatives
- Farming and farm management
- UK grant applications for agriculture and rural sector development
- Financial management
- Development of the rural economy in the UK and abroad
- Agricultural and horticultural market strategies
- Innovation and trends in food manufacture and cool chain distribution
- Trends in food science and nutrition
- Leisure and tourism
who we are
Chris
Chris read Agriculture and has a Postgraduate Diploma in Farm Business Administration from Wye College. After a short period as a farm manager he joined Laurence Gould as a farm management consultant in the south east where he obtained experience of a wide range of farm enterprises. He then returned to the company's HQ to head up the Farm Planning division before moving to the Consultancy Services division which undertook business and marketing studies in the food and cooperative sectors. For the last 15 years of his UK experience he led teams undertaking policy evaluation studies for MAFF and the DoE (now called Defra) and was also a policy advisor to the Rural Land Use Group within the Environment Agency. Ten years ago he joined a sister company and became a Director with responsibility for winning and managing projects in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union. Chris became an independent consultant in 2007 and apart from UK based clients, he also works for the World Bank as a member of their supervision mission for two large scale projects in Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan. Chris also farms in his own right on the Warwickshire/Gloucestershire border.
Mary
Mary read Agricultural Economics as a postgraduate degree at Wye College and joined Laurence Gould in 1976, working on both farm plans and farm development grants before specialising in marketing strategy. She has undertaken feasibility studies for numerous horticultural cooperatives, and a labour sharing cooperative in the UK, drawing on her experience in Germany and the Netherlands. Other assignments have included many successful EU grant applications for UK food processors; market strategy and reputation studies; and market feasibility studies in the UK and Europe on behalf of overseas suppliers. In the last ten years she has undertaken more technical market research which has included developments in phytonutrients, food science and food distribution. Mary has been a freelance consultant for a number of years.
Chris and Mary have combined experience of over 50 years working in the rural sector and have access to a wide range of associate consultants.
Manor Farm Consultants have a working association with Enterprise Planning & Research Limited (EPR) which is a research-based market research consultancy offering qualitative and quantitative services to industry, commerce and government, specialising in energy and the environment, water, building and heritage. For more information about EPR, please visit their website.
contact us
If you would like to know more about how we can help your business,
please use the form below or the details to the side:
Address
Chris Mathias and Mary StaffordManor Farm Consultants
Manor Farm
Great Wolford
Shipston on Stour
Warwickshire
CV36 5NQ
telephone/fax:
+44 (0) 1608 674247
chris@manorfarmconsultants.co.uk
mary@manorfarmconsultants.co.uk