Aylesbury: Clydesdale Bank puts CS Alpacas on growth track

Clydesdale Bank has provided seven-figure funding support to CS Alpacas, allowing it to purchase and move to the 270-acre Yeat Wood Farm at Wotton Underwood in a major expansion of its business and that of Alpaca Stud.

The newly-expanded joint operation will accommodate 1,000 alpacas.  

The deal was facilitated by Justin Hayward, relationship manager for Agribusiness at Clydesdale Bank’s customer banking centre in Oxford.

Julia Corrigan-Stuart, owner of CS Alpacas, said: “We were faced with very short timescales in which to acquire the new property and the Clydesdale Bank team bent over backwards to accommodate our needs.”

Mark Laughlan, head of Clydesdale Bank’s Reading and Oxford customer banking centres, said: “James and Julia Corrigan-Stuart have shown real vision in creating and continuing to grow this innovative business. The move to the new location will establish them as one of the largest Alpaca enterprises in the country.”