Duchy of Lancaster Annual Report and Accounts for Year Ended 31st March 2024
Duchy of Lancaster Annual Report and Accounts for Year Ended 31st March 2024
The Duchy of Lancaster has today published its financial results for the year ended 31st March 2024. During the year: Net Asset Value increased by 1 per cent to £647.6m (2023: £641.2m) Adjusted Net Surplus payable to the Privy Purse increased by 5 per cent to £27.4m (2023: £26.2m) Nathan Thompson CVO, CEO and Clerk […]
Tenant Newsletters (by Survey)
In March 2024, we produced a series of Survey-specific newsletters which were mailed out to our tenants. The newsletters provide a brief snapshot of both ‘corporate’ news stories and items of local interest. They are produced annually and the 2024 editions can be viewed below: 2024 Cheshire Tenant Newsletter 2024 Lancashire Tenant Newsletter 2024 Staffordshire […]
Regenerative Farming Practices: Knowledge-Sharing
One of the farming tenants on the Whitewell Estate in Lancashire held a very successful ‘Pasture for Life’ (PfL) event at the end of August. Janet Smalley is a passionate advocate for soil health and regenerative farming methodologies, and she and her husband Andrew are one year into the process of transforming their traditional farming […]
Community Project Captures The Imagination
Children at a local primary school are keeping a close eye on a redevelopment project currently underway in the picturesque village of Dunsop Bridge on the Duchy’s Whitewell Estate in Lancashire. After two years’ close consultation with the local community, the disused petrol station on the main route through the village is about to be […]
New Council Chairman Appointed
Sir James Henry Leigh-Pemberton CVO has been appointed as Chairman of the Duchy of Lancaster Council from 4th July 2023. He succeeds Sir Alan Reid GCVO who is stepping down from the Council after five years’ service as Chairman and 15 years as an ex-officio member in his capacity as Keeper of the Privy Purse […]
