Events

2025 marks the 50th Anniversary of the ALA.  

There will be a number of events throughout the UK to mark this occasion, including specific events in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. Details will be circulated as they become available.  

The first of our events that we have pleasure to announce is a celebratory drinks reception followed by formal dinner for Members at Blenheim Palace on Thursday 1st May 2025.

The drinks reception and dinner will be proceeded by a special Anniversary Debate (in the style of an Oxford Union Debate). 

Please note that the dress code for Dinner will be Black Tie.

We are also delighted to offer the option of an estate visit at Blenheim in the morning to a limited number of Members.

To book your tickets for the estate visit, debate and dinner please click here to be directed to the Eventbrite booking site which includes full details of the timetable of the event and accommodation.

Please note that the event at Blenheim is open to Members only

Time : 10.00am - 11.30pm

Cost : £0-144

ALA London, would like to invite you to join them for a visit to Surrey Docks Farm on Tuesday 6th May 2025.

9.30                      Arrival and Coffee

10.00 – 12.00       Farm visit led by Gemma Cooper, Farm Manager

ALA and Non-ALA Members are welcome to attend

Click HERE to book by 1st May.  Places limited to 20

Cost:  £12 (incl VAT)

Time : 9.30 - 12.00

Cost : £12 incl VAT

ALA Yorkshire Regional Group are delighted to invite you to an afternoon at Sledmere House, Driffield on Wednesday, 28 May.

1.00pm  Arrival

1.30pm  Presentation on the Estate’s farming operations

3.30pm  Visit to the Shire horses

4.00pm  Tea, Coffee and traybakes

ALA and Non-ALA Members are welcome to attend

Time : 13.00 - 16.00

Cost : £24 (incl VAT) Students Free

The ALA and The WS Society are delighted to invite you to join them at their 28th Joint Annual Conference on Agriculture at The Signet Library on Friday, 6 June 2025.

Our speakers/topics are:

Chaired by Heather Bruce, Turcan Connell

Michael Upton, Advocate – Case Update

Margi Campbell, Saffrey – IHT and Farming Businesses 

Kirsten Mitchell, Savills – The Cost of Farming:  Subsidy and the other Valuation Conundrums 

Alexandra Lane, Shepherd + Wedderburn, Christopher Nicholson,Scottish Tenant Farmers Association, Grierson Dunlop, Turcan Connelland Jackie McCreery, Scottish Land & Estates – A Vibrant Tenanted Sector?  Considerations Past, Present and Future Through the Tenant’s Lens and Through the Landlord’s Lens

Rob Black, Tenant Farming Commissioner – Tenant Farming Commissioner’s Update

Catherine Bury, Stewart and Watson – The Accidental Agricultural Lease

Tom Turnball, Association of Deer Management Groups – Managing Game in the Legislative Landscape

The deadline for bookings is 5pm on Thursday, 22 May 2025.

As with all our Conferences, the event is open to Members and Non-Members with a preferential rate for ALA and WS Society Members.

Please CLICK HERE to book your place

Time : 09.00 - 16.30

Cost : ALA/ WS Members £228 (incl VAT) Non Members £276.00 (incl VAT) Students Free

We are delighted to announce details of the 2025 Fellowship course which will be held at Warwick University.

The course will be held on the following dates:

Week 1    Wednesday, 24 to Friday, 26 September 

Week 2    Tuesday, 21 & Wednesday, 22 October 

The exam for award of the Fellowship of the Association will be held at The Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, London on Tuesday, 12 November.

Places are limited to 20 candidates.

To download the 2025 Prospectus and Enrolment Form – CLICK HERE