The Farm Fund

All Funds have now been wound up but this page remains as I hope to encourage others to take forward the concept and buy the intellectual capital and know how. I now spend time on policy and individual farming discussions.

We spent 12 years creating Funds to invest in family farming businesses, taking on the farm trading risks and managing the investing and farming contracts. All assets have now been sold. Some with the families we bought from still managing them.

The aim of the Fund was to generate a hyper efficient cost model for investors, utilising IHT reliefs to manage through the ‘three D’s’ (death, divorce and debt). We would now add a fourth ‘d’ , that of the disruption in subsidies and in routes to market!

The concept of grouping like-minded investors into an efficient asset owning entity, to work with family farms is something I still believe in and in this time of change is something that requires fresh energies and significant new fund raising.

If you have the capabilities and interest then please write (yes, snail mail as it cuts down on ongoing spam and requires commitment) to me at The Farm Funds c/o PPL, Audley House, Palace Street, London SW1E 5HX

Jonathan Naughton