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KOR Careers – PR Project Manager Apprentice
We have an opportunity for a motivated Project Manager Apprentice to join our busy team at KOR, a specialist PR and public affairs consultancy based in the Exeter.
KOR Careers – PR Apprentice – Multi-Channel Marketing
We have an exciting opportunity for a PR Apprentice to join the KOR team to kickstart their career in public relations, alongside studying for a qualification in multi-channel marketing.
Estate Matters S2 Ep3: Dr Johnny Wake | A people-focused approach to land management
Pursuing a career in medicine, Dr Johnny Wake says he never imagined being anything other than a doctor. In the latest episode of Estate Matters, podcast host Anna Byles talks to Johnny about the success of a people-focused approach to estate management.
Don’t miss the chance to have your say on land use reform
For landowners, the proposed Land Use Framework offers both a challenge and an opportunity. A challenge because it may impose restrictions on how Estates and farmers can manage their land.
Estate Matters S2 Ep2: Sir William Worsley and Avril Roberts | The need for community engagement in rural masterplanning
Good communication with neighbours and stakeholders is essential for the sound management of a rural estate, Sir William Worsley tells the latest episode of the Estate Matters podcast.
Landowners looking for a lifeline will find it’s good to talk
Large parts of rural Britain are feeling deeply unloved by the Government after the publication of the Planning and Infrastructure Bill promised a cut in the value of compulsorily purchased development land and the Sustainable Farming Incentive was summarily scrapped.
Why landowners need a voice in the national conversation on land use
The perennial concern of landowners across the country is that so much of the good work they do goes unrecognised - but if they undertake a project considered in the least bit controversial complaints come flying in.
Public affairs specialist Grace Gladding joins the KOR Communications team
Grace brings a wealth of political insight to KOR having worked in Westminster and most recently as a Public Affairs Manager at environmental infrastructure company, Pennon Group.
Estate Matters S2 Ep1: Estates MD at Blenheim Palace Roy Cox | History will judge us on solar farm plans
History will judge landed estates that press ahead with ambitious renewable energy projects kindly, Blenheim Palace managing director Roy Cox tells the latest episode of KOR Communications’ Estate Matters podcast.
Changing the rules on planning and the environment
There has been a flurry of announcements from the Government since its July election victory on the subject of solving the housing crisis.
Estate Matters Episode 20: Iestyn John | Navigating the updated National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF)
The Government’s revised planning policies offer opportunities for landowners and developers to create more homes more quickly – without compromising on the provision of essential infrastructure or abandoning high quality design.
Estate Matters Episode 19: Charlie and Beilby Forbes Adam | Lessons in Succession
Handing over control of the Escrick Park Estate in Yorkshire to his son, Beilby, was “quite a challenge,” Charlie Forbes Adam admits in the latest Estate Matters podcast from KOR Communications.
Telling the right stories in a changing media landscape
How do organisations and individuals communicate with neighbours, stakeholders and the wider public in a media environment that is fast-changing and, in many cases, fracturing?
CLA Rural Business Conference 2024
Environment Secretary Steve Reed has accepted he owes landowners an explanation for The Labour Government’s decision to scrap 100% to agricultural inheritance tax relief after promising a year ago there would be ‘no change.’
Sending out the wrong message to farmers
How things are and how things look can be two radically different things.
But managing the way things look to people is a critical skill for a government engaged in bringing about change.
And the optics following the introduction of a 20% inheritance tax on agricultural assets worth over £1m, introduced in last month’s Budget, are terrible.
It doesn’t matter how many Treasury number-crunchers line up to tell the rural community that the change will affect just a small number of farming families, the message could not be any clearer to those affected.
Estate Matters Episode 18: Michael Birnie & Sarah White | The Ernest Cook Trust on the balance of funding charitable aims through land and property management
The management of the nine estates spread across England that make up the land holdings of The Ernest Cook Trust is carried out with a clear focus on the Trust’s primary purpose as an education-based charity.
Autumn Budget Analysis: What it means for the land, rural and property sectors
Many farmers and landowners thought they’d had a raw deal from the Conservatives and hoped for better from Labour.
In the first Labour Budget for 14 years, delivered on Wednesday (Oct 30) many will have felt let down once more.
Estate Matters Episode 17: Philipp Lukas - Future Biogas | How to talk about renewable energy
There is a good story to tell about the production of ‘green gas’ – and landowners and farmers producing the raw material at the start of the process can be proud of what they do and should be ready to talk about it, says Philipp Lukas, Chief Executive Officer of Future Biogas.
Stop bashing the landowners
With so much asked of them, it wouldn’t be too much of a stretch to suggest modern landowners should be afforded some respect – admiration even.
Estate Matters Episode 16: Ben Murphy | The Duchy of Cornwall Estates Director on the vital role of legacy developments.
Creating affordable housing that is no different in quality to homes built for open market sale is a matter of huge pride for the Duchy of Cornwall at its two high-profile developments, Poundbury in Dorset and Nansledan in Cornwall.
Duchy Estates Director Ben Murphy tells the latest episode of KOR Communications’ Estate Matters podcast that more than a third of the homes built at Poundbury, the Duchy’s community on the edge of Dorchester where work began more than 30 years ago, are affordable.