Finance Strategy

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Identifying new funding sources and maximising existing funding sources are essential to the delivery of Hartpury’s 2030 strategy. We will expand on our success in securing grant funding to support the development and maintenance of our facilities and equipment. Gradually and sustainably increasing our proportion of international students will enable full economic cost recovery and diversification of our income sources. We will develop partnerships with industry, charitable trusts, stakeholders and communities that share our passion, value and commitment, who will support delivery of our strategic aims. Our repayment of existing debt over recent years provides an opportunity to seek new debt and structure a stable funding base on which to deliver our strategy.

To achieve this, we will: 1.1. Grow and mature our partnerships and use them to develop shared goals and programmes that harness our estate and staff to support the delivery of our mission and build a committed community of supporters of Hartpury. 1.2. Search and identify new grant funding sources to complement existing sources, and align our development focus to secure new opportunities. 1.3. Develop carefully selected international partnerships in our specialist areas and will engage in research with international recognition and impact to drive international student recruitment and grow international support for our strategy. 1.4. Review our debt financing and banking operations and the funding markets, and deliver a debt funding strategy that provides long-term, sustainable funding.