Fairgreen Oak Limited
Held across generations.
Fairgreen Oak is a family-owned business that holds residential property for the long term. It is run for the generations still to come, and built on the ones that came before.
Origins
Where the name comes from
The name joins two places with meaning.
Fairgreen is the home in North London where several generations of the family have lived over many decades, and which they still hold today.
Oak comes from the great oak at Haileybury, known as the Lightning Oak, which was all but destroyed by lighning in 1898, but against the odds, grew back, and it is still standing. The story inspired the name of the company that James works through in a professional capacity, Lightning Oak.
Together, the two names stand for the long view, with each generation building on the last.
Properties
The Old Tannery,
Downton
The company holds The Old Tannery, a two-bedroom flat in the Wiltshire village of Downton, a few miles south of Salisbury. The building takes its name from the tannery that worked beside the River Avon here for centuries.
The flat is let on longer-term arrangements and makes a quiet, homely base on the edge of the New Forest. Guests talk about its light and space, and about how lovely the village around it is.
Lightning Oak
The other oak
Fairgreen Oak and Lightning Oak are separate companies that share the oak in their names. Through Lightning Oak, his other company, James offers due diligence, fractional and interim internal audit leadership, and advice to boards, founders and investors.
Lightning Oak
lightning-oak.co.uk
James is an independent board chair and non-executive director. Boards and investors bring him in to test what they are told, and founders to be ready for those questions.
Get in touch
Questions about the company, The Old Tannery or the family history come straight to us through the contact page. Anyone writing to James about a board role, a deal or his other professional work can reach him directly through Lightning Oak.