HARTPURY INVESTMENT PROSPECTUS 2023

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PROSPECTUS

UNLOCKING POTENTIAL

Hartpury University and Hartpury College are on an ambitious journey and relentless in their pursuit of excellence. HARTPURY: BLAZING A TRAIL TO EXCELLENCE Hartpury is one of the UK’s leading agricultural education institutions, home to the world’s largest equine education facilities, and are proud to train professional international elite athletes. The University and College are blazing a trail, committed to building Hartpury’s reputation as a world-class provider of specialist further and higher education. Our shared vision and purpose for the next decade is to excel across all our specialist education and research and make Hartpury synonymous with innovation, performance, sustainability and wellbeing. This prospectus outlines the demand, need and return on investment associated with six exciting regeneration projects across our 360-hectare estate.

This document is a forward-thinking piece designed to initiate a dialogue with investment partners and key stakeholders, presenting our roadmap for the future of Hartpury. Join us in unlocking our potential and facilitating transformative growth. UNLOCKING INVESTMENT UNLOCKING POTENTIAL

Help us drive the change.

Hartpury’s economic impact continues to grow and most recently was estimated to be circa £300M

“Our mission is to be a specialist niche provider delivering relevant, effective, and high-quality education and training for employment in sport, equine, animal and agricultural industries; locally, nationally and internationally.”

(London Economics, Hartpury University and Hartpury College Economic Impact Report, 2023).

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INVESTMENT IN HARTPURY SPACE FOR FUTURE INNOVATION AND EXCELLENCE

INVESTMENT PRIORITIES

Animal Delivering world-leading resources for animal science, education, and research. (See page 8)

Agriculture Driving digital innovation in agriculture. (See page 10)

The world is changing and our environment and population are transforming rapidly. We believe that our purpose is to bring economic and educational benefit to the region and change our planet for the better. Our aim is to drive forward successful centres and research projects to support the next generation of talent. Sharing applied, industry-led best practice and research within the agriculture, equine, animal, and sport industries to serve our local regional economies and beyond. At Hartpury, we are driven to make a difference to the future of the planet and continue to push the boundaries to find solutions to real world problems.

Making a difference

Heritage Conserving and promoting our rural heritage asset for the future. (See page 12) Institute for Equestrian Research A world-leading equine research and consultation institute to improve horse and rider welfare and maximise performance and rehabilitation. (See page 14) Sport and Wellbeing Village World-class sport, wellbeing and accommodation for international athletes. (See page 16) Green Estate Future-proofing growth through on-site energy production, building decarbonisation and creating a haven for biodiversity. (See page 18)

Your investment will deliver impactful, complementary projects to:

Create a cleaner, greener, more sustainable future. Unlock the potential of data, digital and technology. Advance skills, research, and innovation for industry. Inspire communities, businesses, and the next generation of thinkers, problem solvers and innovators.

Game-changing opportunities Each project will create transformational economic and social value for years to come:

Our developments will be enabled through effective partnerships and collaborations with those who share our vision for the future.

Deliver significant return on investment.

Invest in us to invest in others

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PROUD HISTORY BRIGHT FUTURE

“Science and technology have the potential to change our world beyond recognition and improve all our lives.”

Michelle Donelan Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology

The strength of our career-focused programmes, the quality of teaching staff and industry links ensure that Hartpury graduates are work-ready and highly sought after. We have the potential to be truly transformational in our support for our priority disciplines and industries we serve. We are dedicated to improving the quality of our provision, both now and in the future, to empower our students, the future leaders, and the industry to reach their full potential.

Our 360-hectare campus is home to a record number of 4,500 students studying a mix of A-levels and Further and Higher Education qualifications in sport, agriculture, equine, animal, and veterinary science.

“Hartpury is a focused community, driven by our determination to create a meaningful impact on society. As we eagerly anticipate our 2030 Strategy, our commitment remains unwavering to enhance and enrich through impactful, inclusive, and empowering collaborations with students, staff, communities, and the industries we serve.”

Andy Collop Vice-Chancellor, Principal and CEO

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ANIMAL

Delivering world-leading facilities for animal science, education, and research.

Ambition Our mission is to make Hartpury Animal the

Scope and objectives: Animal Education Centre

Canine Performance and Rehabilitation Centre

Human-Animal Interaction (HAI) Centre of Excellence

go-to destination for both students and industry - with resources that are innovative, and exemplary in supporting animal welfare, education, and research. Rationale Our three interlinked phases will substantially transform the resources across Hartpury Animal to provide a futuristic equipped, world-class specialist centre with specific resources for human-animal interaction, canine performance, and rehabilitation.

Understanding the fascinating and essential human-animal bond and the science behind it has recently seen significant growth in areas such as physical activity, social prescription alongside mental health and wellbeing. This Centre will utilise digital technologies such as thermal imaging, biomechanics analysis, and behavioural measurement tools to advance education and understanding.

Creating a market-leading facility dedicated to understanding animal performance and canine science like never before. Facilities will include a canine hydrotherapy and rehabilitation suite, behaviour, and digital analysis zones, integrated kinematic structure and motion technology labs for data analysis and external performance centre.

Our flagship centre for digital education to study animal

management. Housed alongside state-of-the-art laboratories which will enable emerging trends in animal welfare, nutrition, health and disease and research opportunities with augmented reality (AR) and artificial intelligence (AI) to supplement live animal use in education.

Feasibility & Development

Educating HE Per year

Funding including match

Delivery Date

Animal Species

£ 1M

£11 M

2027

200

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AGRICULTURE

Leading digital innovation in agriculture.

Technical Skills Centre

Commercial Farm

Digital Innovation Farm

Ambition Hartpury Agriculture’s vision is to provide internationally recognised and inclusive agricultural teaching, research and knowledge exchange that develops skills and attributes in our students in an applied and industry relevant setting for the agri-food industry. Rationale Hartpury’s specialist agricultural campus aims to become the most technically advanced campus for agricultural education, research, and business support. Our plans build on £4.5M of recent investment to deliver a student-facing, industry-connected facility that will enable Hartpury graduates to innovate and make a substantial contribution to the agricultural economy.

› A much-needed facility to provide a world-class experience to support industry collaboration and demonstrate the positive application of technology to students, farmers, and visitors in an accessible way. › Specialist science, environment and technology laboratories and studios, and state-of-the-art agricultural engineering workshops.

To continue to drive research and innovation in agricultural technology and the future of farming, we seek further investment in Hartpury’s Farm and Technology Park. The next phase of the Digital Innovation Farm project will accelerate our ambitions to grow three specific areas: Farm - Applying the latest technology across the farm’s enterprises to automate applied farm operations – in new farm buildings, automation, robotic equipment and building modifications and adaptations.

Agri-Tech Centre - Investment in research staff and students. Attract people with specialist agricultural expertise in data management interpretation with additional equipment to support growth in postgraduate teaching, research degree programmes and our knowledge transfer activities.

Tech Box Park - The rural economy is undergoing unprecedented change and

requires specialist support. Home to our resident agri-tech businesses, our Tech Box Park facility will be complemented with six additional new modular units. Our specialist agricultural technology, environmental and digitalisation business cluster will be expanded within our new industry zone on the agricultural campus, with the addition of specialist facilities to include: › The Gloucestershire Rural Navigation Network › National Centre for Agricultural Data Management › Environmental Technology Monitoring Centre › An Education Business and Research Unit

Researchers and Technical Staff (2025-28)

Delivery Date

Funding including match

Delivery Date

Educating Per year

Build Size

Additional Business & Researchers Supported

Scope and objectives The future of Hartpury Agriculture includes:

£1.5 M

2025

Funding including match

Delivery Date

Farm Vistors Increased

£5.8 M

2028

700

1,430 m 2

£2.3 M

2025

1,000 /Year

100 /Year

100

Postgraduate & Buisness Projects

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‘Hartpury’ is derived from the Saxon word for pear: Hardepirige – an apple-like, hard pear similar to the perry pear. There is a perry pear known as the ‘Hartpury Green’ recorded as early as 1662.

HERITAGE

Conserving and promoting our rural heritage asset for the future.

Ambition Hartpury House and Parish are hidden jewels of rural history that should be protected, celebrated, and promoted as a community asset – Hartpury University and Hartpury College will play a key role to realising this ambition. Rationale Built in the early nineteenth century, grade II* listed in 1985, Hartpury House and its gardens and grounds are a protected historic asset. The building requires ongoing, specialist maintenance and repairs to maintain its heritage value, address the natural degeneration of the building, and to sympathetically refurbish it as a visitor attraction, protectingt it for future generations.

Scope and objectives Hartpury House and gardens require significant restoration to: › Create a Community Visitor Information Centre for Hartpury Parish and for the university and college. › Exploit the building and garden features alongside the Parish heritage assets and create public-facing access to them all. › Create a Three Counties Farming and Rural Heritage Centre utilising interactive technology to create an immersive visitor experience. › Invest in Hartpury’s animal collections facilities to create a modern visitor experience. › Expand Hartpury’s widening participation and outreach work.

Deliverables: › T he restoration project will reinstate and re-imagine Hartpury House, gardens and grounds. It will deliver a heritage project that is outward facing, inclusive and an attractive community asset. The heritage destination will enhance Parish assets and provide facilities for health, entertainment, tourism, youth organisations, Hartpury staff and students, and the local community. Phase 1 (2024 – 2025) Repairs to roof and external building structure, internal redecoration, restoration and preservation of heritage features and accessibility features - £0.75M. Phase 2 (2024 – 2026) Restoration of grounds, formal gardens with the creation of Hartpury Community Visitor Information Centre, Gloucestershire agricultural archive and digital interactive historic exhibition and tearoom - £1.9M. Proposed timescale:

Funding including match

£2.65M

Delivery Date

2026

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INSTITUTE FOR EQUESTRIAN RESEARCH

Scope and objectives At the heart of this state-of-the-art facility will be:

A world-leading equine research and consultation institute to improve horse and rider welfare and maximise performance and rehabilitation.

This facility will house a high-speed treadmill with incline/decline with climate control and sufficient space to allow kinematic analysis of the whole horse and rider. › Horse Welfare Laboratory - to promote and encourage the application of objective research to equestrian practice that will ultimately advance the welfare of horses, including their interactions with humans. The initial focus will be to provide and embed models of practice within the Hartpury Equine Centre and academic provision. Ultimately activity will be transferable to the equine sector, and support social licence to operate on a global scale, within equestrian sport and wider interactions. The aim will be to find ways to improve horses’ quality of life, throughout their life.

› Gait Analysis Laboratory – indoor paved runway facility capable of static and dynamic analysis of the horse in hand with the capabilities to measure kinematics and kinetics using 3D motion capture and force plates. A purpose-built high-speed treadmill (the first in the UK and only the third in the world) will facilitate unridden and ridden assessment, and comparative studies between horse and rider performance in standardised versus real-world riding scenarios - ideal for commercial validation testing and conducting distinct research. › Performance Analysis and Digital Laboratory – increasing our capacity to embed new approaches such as machine learning and artificial intelligence.

“Hartpury Equine has the potential to undertake research on a scale and breadth not possible in any other equine research unit anywhere else in the world.”

Ambition This trailblazing institute will be the ‘jewel in the crown’ of Hartpury Equine, complementing the international standard competition facilities, Equine Therapy Centre, and Rider Performance Centre. Uniquely placed to support the future of the performance horse, this facility will enhance knowledge, understanding and professional approaches to the health, welfare and athletic capability of horses and riders across all disciplines of equestrianism.

Rationale Hartpury University is the world’s largest provider of equestrian higher education and aims to become a world leader in applied equestrian research. The Institute will focus on answering questions driven by industry ensuring that all impact is effectively disseminated throughout all levels of the equestrian industry from grassroots to elite level. Significant investment will also be made in people, developing a new generation of diverse equestrian researchers prepared to answer questions posed by the industry and wider society.

Proposed deliverables International ‘Excellent’ research

outputs through REF increased to: 70%

Additional research staff: 13

Additional PhDs: 7

Rosie Scott-Ward Hartpury, Deputy Vice-Chancellor

230+ Horses Stabled

Funding including match

Delivery Date

Equine Students

£14.75M

2028

600+

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“When you get incredible people involved with great vision and drive, combined with great facilities, that’s when the magic happens – this is a place where magic will happen.”

SPORT AND WELLBEING VILLAGE

Katherine Grainger DBE Chair of UK Sport

World-class sport, wellbeing and accommodation for international athletes.

Rationale

Scope and objectives

Ambition

› World-class high performance dry and wet facilities for indoor and outdoor training and assessment. › Equipped with the most advanced technologies for performance wellbeing and associated research into advancement of holistic human performance. › Education suites and meeting rooms to deliver bespoke learning, aligned to the development of each person and their physical and cognitive performance.

Building on our investment in sports facilities, this £10.5 million sports village will become the go-to facility for performance, research and wellbeing. The world-leading sports training facility will be constructed in three phases to include: › Accessible and innovative accommodation for adults providing a technology advanced, superior living space and environment to attract the most ambitious athletes. › S mart enabled performance laboratories where athletes will be fully immersed and supported by digital technology throughout their development programmes. › A qua therapy and recovery facilities, including spa, saunas, and therapy suites.

The proposed building will be constructed with advanced materials and designed to minimise environmental impact and exploit green and latest renewable technologies in all operations of the building designed to provide: › 100 fully equipped bedroom suites. › Final complex totalling 5,500m 2 purpose-built facilities. › Sensed environment to continually monitor inhabitants. › Meeting and seminar rooms to support 200 learners. › Personal performance laboratories to accommodate 150 athletes. › Blended living social and café/dining space. › Nutritional and wellbeing studios, top level pitches, infrastructure and stadia.

Delivering specialist accommodation, performance and wellbeing facilities for the education and development of individuals to grow through performance and sports. Our vision is to construct new buildings that create a truly innovative and inclusive space for athletes aspiring to reach the next level. They will live, work, train, be assessed and monitored in a fully digitised complex to maximise their ultimate potential.

Feasibility & Development

Funding including match

Delivery Date

Athletes Supported

£1.5M

£10.5M

2028

100 /Year

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Net Zero

› Deliver sustainability education to our staff and students to help them to cope, thrive and live responsibly in a changing world, whilst delivering rapid cultural change. › Explore EV technologies to eliminate fossil fuel use and dangerous emissions beyond our boundaries whilst supporting and improving campus accessibility through cycle infrastructure and initiatives.

GREEN ESTATE

Ambition Hartpury’s ambition is to see sustainability threaded through everything we do and every decision we make, recognising the important role we play in helping to address many global challenges, ensuring we future-proof business growth against the worst impacts of the climate crisis, whilst preparing our students for life in a changing world. Rationale Hartpury is a rural campus with close connections to the land and the elements. Our future depends on changing our habits, eliminating waste, decarbonising and retrofitting our old building stock, becoming energy secure through renewable technologies, rewilding our campus grounds and engaging our students by creating outdoor classrooms. Future-proofing growth through onsite energy production, building decarbonisation and creating a haven for biodiversity.

Proposed deliverables Feasibility and development funding

Scope and objectives To meet the challenge of our changing world, we will utilise innovative technologies, work closely with partners and implement projects that address the climate and sustainability challenges within our business and beyond. We aim to: › Invest in campus efficiency and cost effective sustainable energy as an exemplar to future generations. › Decarbonise our building stock through innovative partnerships, retrofit solutions, and renewable energy solutions. › Employ circular principles that eliminate waste and regenerate our natural systems. › Create outdoor learning environments for our students and local communities that contribute to boosting biodiversity locally and nationally.

Planning, business case, infrastructure, and investment plan

Future investment strategy

Delivery Date

New Cycleway

7 Ha Dedicated to Biodiversity

Staff Sustainably Educated

2024-30

5 M iles

100%

Student Bedrooms Approved as Energy Efficient

1,100

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For further information, please contact:

partnerships@hartpury.ac.uk +44 (0) 1452 702 100

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