For British farming families
Saving fields, not chasing yields.
Land that has been in a family for generations should not have to be sold to settle a bill, cover a bad year, or pass to the next generation.
Most farms are worth a great deal on paper and hold almost nothing they can actually use. That is true when someone dies, and it is just as true in a wet spring with input costs up and margins gone. The land is the wealth, and the land is the thing you cannot touch without losing a piece of it.
We are building practical tools for that problem — with the aim of keeping the field a field, in the same family's hands.
This site is early. We are working through the legal and regulatory groundwork properly, with specialist advisers, before offering anything to anyone. That work is not finished, so there is nothing here to sign up to and nothing being sold. When there is, it will be set out plainly.
The reason any of this exists: our own family home, held for over forty years, was lost to inheritance tax. That should not have been the only option available, and for the next family it should not be.
If you would like to talk
Not a sales conversation, and nothing to sign. If you are a farming family thinking about succession, or you work with families who are, we would value hearing from you.
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Important information
This website is general information about what we are building. It is not advice of any kind — not legal, tax, financial or investment advice — and nothing on it should be relied on in making a decision about your farm, your estate or your finances.
It is not an offer, invitation, inducement or financial promotion, and no product or service is being offered through this page.
Inheritance tax, agricultural property relief and business property relief depend entirely on individual circumstances and the rules change. Anyone thinking about their own position should take independent professional advice from their solicitor and accountant.