CLA Wales

Wales Director, Julian Salmon, leads a lively new team busily tackling the raft of challenges facing Welsh landowners and geographically well spread across the country.   Sarah Andrews is Assistant Director, Wales South, following the retirement of her father-in-law Jonathan Andrews last year.  Dawn Harding Maddocks is Assistant Director, Wales North, a title that consolidates the work she has been doing from her base at Bangor on Dee near Wrexham.

The team includes Welsh speaking Policy Advisor Sue Evans, as well as two new field officers, Alun Evans in South Wales and Dan Jones in the North.  Gaina Morgan handles press and publicity and is always happy to promote a new enterprise.

"The need for landowners and managers to be able to look to innovative and imaginative leadership within the CLA has never been greater", says Julian.  "We are faced with a range of difficulties, as well as costs and controls which could never have been imagined when the organisation was first set up a century ago.

"It's becoming ever harder to survive in business in rural Wales, just as awareness is growing over looming food shortages.  It's vital to make the Welsh Assembly Government more pro-actively concerned with food security, and strengthen the rural economy, and that has to start with the people who are, literally, at the grassroots".

CLA Wales members tend to be pro-active and have been well placed to change with the times. Wales has three National Parks, a breathtaking and varied coastline and soaring mountain heights. The topography brings challenges, with 80% of the land 'disadvantaged' , but this has also instilled a tough and enduring spirit in its people, as well as its stock. Land managers are able to take advantage of Farming Connect and the countryside stewardship schemes, Tir Gofal and Tir Cynnal, to help them adapt.

CLA Wales, the rural economy experts, is in business to help manage the ongoing changes in the countryside and to ensure that members have access to some of the best advice to secure their long-term future.

The team is small, but tightly focussed. Its lobbying is well respected and appreciated by the Welsh Assembly Government. Wales is a tight knit unit where farming families all tend to know one another.

Wales is a country where the CLA helps make things happen.

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