Tim Barratt
Partner, Forestry
Head of Forestry
Tim leads our specialist forestry team, covering strategic asset management, valuations, sales, acquisitions as well as EIA and professional contracts.
Tim leads our specialist forestry team, covering strategic asset management, valuations, sales, acquisitions as well as EIA and professional contracts.
With 20 years' industry experience, Tim is at the forefront of his profession. He is a long-standing and passionate advocate of forestry's wide-ranging benefits from economics to ecosystem services and climate change mitigation to rural employment.
Having worked in both the public and private sectors, Tim is well placed to lead our Forestry team, with a strong focus on achieving the best outcome for clients. He leads on our large client portfolio management with an oversight of commercial investment and sales.
Tim's projects reflect the synergy between sustainable investment opportunities and integrated land use. None more so than Cumberhead where he has managed 2,000 hectares of commercial forestry and the installation of 269MW of consented and operational windfarm developments.
As a green, socially responsible and ethical investment, forestry delivers. Tim has championed Bidwells' recent accreditation under the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment and believes it is important that forest asset owners and the wider industry adopt these principles too.
Rural and Forestry Agency in Scotland sees surge in activity
Our Rural and Forestry Agency teams in Scotland have recorded a significant increase in market activity - and the prices they can achieve for clients - over the past year.
Prime Minister’s pledge should be good news for woodland creation
As an environmental scientist, a forester and parent, I applaud this week’s announcement by the Prime Minister for a renewed tree planting commitment of 30,000 hectares of trees every year in his Ten Point Plan for a Green Industrial Revolution.
Could recognising the ‘true value’ of forests turbo-charge UK woodland creation?
There’s a growing recognition and desire for a low-carbon 'green recovery' as we emerge from crisis. We ask if a new way of valuing forests could be the real catalyst for a step change in UK woodland creation?
It's Tree Time
Scottish Government policy and carbon unit trading boosts the industry
