Kit Papworth
BBRO Stakeholder Committee | NFU Sugar BoardKit works with Tim to engage with the BBRO on behalf of the NFU Sugar Board and take decisions necessary to ensure the smooth operation of the BBRO. They ensure all growers' views are fully represented at BBRO Stakeholder Committee meetings throughout the year.
Kit is a director of LF Papworth Ltd and Tuttington Farms Ltd. LF Papworth Ltd is a contract farming business based near Aylsham in Norfolk farming 1250 hectares on behalf of over 20 different landowners.
Kit has specialised in combinable crops and sugar beet. He is on the BASIS professional register and is responsible for the farm鈥檚 agronomy and crop recording, health and safety and HR. LF Papworth Ltd won the Norfolk Champion Farms competition for 2004, 2005, 2008, 2009 and 2014.
Kit was a board member of Anglia Farmers for 12 years and was chair from 2011 to 2014, retiring from the board to chair the subsidiary AF Logic until its sale in 2017. He joined the NFU Sugar Board in 2020 with specific responsibilities for Red Tractor. Kit stepped down from his sugar board Red Tractor representation when he took up the role of Red Tractor Crops and Sugar Chair in September 2022.
Kit has been on the council of the Aylsham Show for many years, managing the food theatre. He is chair of Pensthorpe Conservation Trust. He has three children and lives with his partner Caroline.