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About Asken

Asken Ltd is a consultancy business specialising in Countryside Management, operated by Ken Taylor.

For a copy of Ken's CV, click here.

Asken is a small consultancy and so clients benefit from:

• Wysiwyg - unlike many larger consultancies, “what you see is what you get”
• Commitment - all clients and all projects get the boss's attention until completion
• Use of a wide network of experienced Associates

Asken is used to, and welcomes, the chance to work in larger multi-discipline teams.

Its expertise is vested in Ken's 30+ years' experience in consultancy, initially in farm management advisory work in the south and north west of England. Since 1986, firstly with Laurence Gould Consultants and ultimately Entec UK, Ken has worked on a wide range of consultancy projects for public sector and corporate clients. Ken is a keen mountaineer, hill-walker and rights-of-way user of some 35 years, an activity he has practised around the world. Since moving to Kendal, he has become an active mountain biker as well as utilitarian road cyclist – experience he has used a various cycleway feasibility studies. Ken is able to bring his considerable personal experience of both consultancy and access to bear on what has become a particularly topical issue.

Asken’s expertise has been widened by the addition of Ros Taylor. Like Ken, Ros comes from an agricultural background, with a degree in agriculture from Reading University, 5 years experience as a farm management consultant and a similar period leading the Young Farmers’ rural policy work. After gaining an MBA from Warwick University, Ros spent 10 years in financial services before establishing her own dog-caring business. This business was sold in 2005 and Ros now works alongside Ken on consultancy project, where her analytical and marketing skills are put to good use.

Areas where Asken can provide expertise are:

• Access to open countryside
• Agriculture and Rural Development
• Environmental impacts
• Rural land use and diversification

Click on each section for further information.

Profiles of projects Asken has worked on recently can be obtained by clicking here.

Over the last 3 years, Asken has developed and maintained a website for Natural England, CCW and CCPR – see www.bobw.co.uk - which promotes good practice in building consensus between heritage managers and recreationalists.

When to use Asken:

• Drawing up Access Management Plans/planning for access for project management
• As a research facilitator
• To edit and summarise complex reports for use by policy makers
• High level policy development/appraisal (e.g. Regulatory Impact Assessments, Monitoring and Evaluation work)
• Small, specialist research projects (either stand alone or as part of bigger projects)
• For expert witness reports, for example over incidents concerning cattle, people and dogs

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Contact us at:

k.taylor@asken.co.uk