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Consultancy and advisory services

Our consultancy and advisory services spans a wide range of subject areas, including strategic development, organisational resilience, leadership, governance, risk and preparedness, food systems, food integrity, sustainability, rural development, and professional capability. We combine strategic insight with practical experience, helping organisations translate ideas into meaningful outcomes. We work alongside leaders, teams, businesses, charities, and public sector organisations to understand their unique context, identify opportunities, and develop solutions that are both evidence-informed and grounded in the realities of day-to-day practice. 

Whether you are developing new policy, evaluating policy and programmes, facilitating stakeholder engagement, or designing innovative approaches to emerging challenges, we provide independent expertise tailored to your objectives.  We believe that successful consultancy is about more than delivering recommendations. It is about building capability, and leaving organisations stronger than when we began working together. Each project is designed around your needs and may include strategic advice, facilitation, workshops, research and evidence reviews, programme design, evaluation, mentoring, executive coaching, or ongoing advisory support. We invite you to explore some of our recent projects and advisory roles below to see how we have supported organisations across different sectors and disciplines in the last twelve months. 

Research and reports

This report was researched and authored by Dr Louise Manning and presented in January 2026 at the Oxford Farming Conference. The panel discussion has received over 900 views.

This report reviews current approaches to continuous professional development (CPD) across the land-based sector, focusing on how CPD is linked to agri-food market requirements and public agricultural payments across the UK and Ireland.

The EU-funded project aims to increase Europe’s resilience against food threats through cost-efficient threats identification tools, the development of artificial intelligence (AI)-based monitoring and management tools, the increase of cooperation and awareness regarding food defence within experts and public audience.

Academic papers published in 2026 can be found here.

Committee Membership

Group considering the standardisation of data and related topics in the field of agrifood systems, seeking to enable comprehensive, data-driven, multiobjective decision-making, in the context of a complex and changing world.

The primary charitable objectives of the East Malling Trust is the advancement of research, innovation and edication in plant sciences, particularly horticulture and food and to contribute to health, economic wellbeing and wider society for the public benefit.

Farm Herefordshire - Co-chair
Farm Herefordshire Partnership is a group of organisations who have formed a collaborative partnership to support farming in Herefordshire with the one common purpose to “Ensure the health of the Wye catchment through sustainable farming systems.”

The Food Data Transparency Partnership (FDTP) is a partnership between government, industry and experts. The FDTP aims to improve the availability, quality and comparability of data in the food supply chain to create a positive change in the food system towards the production and sale of more environmentally sustainable and healthier food and drink.

The vision of the EU-co-funded FutureFoodS partnership is to collectively achieve healthy, safe, environmentally friendly, socially secure, fair, and economically viable food systems for Europe.

The NFU Council meets four times a year to discuss the future direction of the organisation’s work.

NSF Certification UK certifies over 40,000 clients annually across all the major schemes and standards. The impartiality board consists of independent individuals with a wide range of expertise and representation and governs the certification activities of NSF. 

The Rural Policy Group undertakes a variety of policy related and communication activities including the hosting of RED talks, and publication of sustainable food reports.

 

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