Archie Ruggles-Brise is the 11th generation of the Ruggles-Brise family to take the helm of Spains Hall Estate in Essex. As Estate Manager, he has reshaped the direction of the estate towards a nature-first approach, developing an estate-wide ecological master plan which includes the generation of 500 Biodiversity Net Gain credits over 100 acres. Ruggles-Brise is a trustee of the Essex and Suffolk Rivers Trust, a Climate Change Panel member of the Country Land and Business Association (CLA) and advisor to both the Essex Climate Action Commission and Essex Local Nature Partnership.