Tim Barratt

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.

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Energy & Climate

Convert climate goals to competitive advantage

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Forestry

Unlocking the value of your woodland assets

Our insights

Report 2024

In Bidwells’ latest groundbreaking report, The Productivity Engine, we uncover the fundamental role that space plays in understanding - and solving - the UK’s productivity problems.

The Productivity Engine

Podcast/Recording 03.08.20

According to a recent Boston Consulting Group report, the total value of the world’s forests is estimated to be $150tn - double the value of the global stock markets – with tree’s carbon storage ability amounting to 90% of this value.

Seeing the wood for the trees. What’s the ‘true value’ of UK Forestry?

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Insights 25.06.20

There’s a growing recognition and desire for a low-carbon 'green recovery'. We ask if a new way of valuing forests could be the real catalyst for a step change in UK woodland creation?

Could recognising the ‘true value’ of forests turbo-charge UK woodland creation?

Insights 20.11.20

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 10 point plan for a green industrial revolution.

Prime Minister’s pledge should be good news for woodland creation

Blog 14.04.21

There’s currently a debate underway in the UK around where plantation forestry i.e. fast-growing timber producing forestry, fits into the voluntary carbon market system, the Woodland Carbon Code (WCC). Similar discussions are being held in other parts of the world, as globally we analyse how to deal with the climate change challenge we all face.

Time to spruce up the voluntary carbon market