Meet
The Team

Tom Thompson

Expert Witness

As a Bond Solon qualified expert witness, Tom undertakes civil and criminal cases involving tree damage to property, injuries to people and planning issues

His areas of expertise include:

Tree condition and decay

Decay detection testing

Tree damage assessment

Chlorophyll fluorescence testing

Tree harm investigation

Duty of care

Tom Thompson (Founder) manages and runs the business on a day-to-day basis and studied and worked in urban forestry, enabling people, trees and property to co-exist in the best way possible.

Tom has a master’s degree in forestry and a BSc in Arboriculture (urban forestry) and has also worked in woodland creation and organic waste recycling, as well as for the public sector as a tree officer in arboriculture for two local authorities.

The Arbor Cultural Ltd. team has a wealth of industry accreditations and trade memberships.

Skills

Mr Thompson can take instructions on behalf of either claimant or defendant or as a Single Joint Expert.

His Bond Solon profile is visible here ;
https://register.bondsolon.com/profile.aspx?wid=2626

He is also registered with the National Expert Witness Association and his profile is viewable here; NEWA.Expert.

He is currently registering with the Academy of Experts, where he will soon have a directory profile page.

Home – The Academy of Experts

Health & Safety

Arbor Cultural Ltd have partnered with Croner to provide their Health and Safety support. This includes a written health and safety policy, site, and task specific risk assessments, as well as a biosecurity policy.

~Arbor Cultural Ltd has a robust health and safety management system and we carry out site specific risk assessments for all or work activities on site. The health and safety management system is audited each year for compliance by CMIOSH member.

Croner also provide the Human Resources (HR) support for Arbor Cultural Ltd.

Arbor Cultural Ltd, use the People Safe App to cover all staff’s lone working to ensure members are safe at all times.

All site-based staff are Disclosure Barring System (DBS) checked and are registered on the DBS online register.

Arbor Cultural Ltd are currently working towards ISA 9001.

Location

We have bases in West Molesey Surrey, Sussex, and Hampshire.

We set the company up when Tom lived in West Molesey. As such we still have a physical address and a Google Business and Maps location there.

Tom moved home towards Tandridge and as the business expanded into Sussex he decided that it made sense to have another business address there.

Charitable Connections

Arbor Cultural Ltd. have a number of charitable commitments.

Fund4Trees is a charity promoting sustainable treescapes with three main objectives:

Promoting the conservation and improvement of the natural environment;
Educating the public, especially young people, about the protection and improvement of trees particularly in and around urban areas;
Advancing research in all aspects of trees.

We have supported Fund4Trees since their inception, initially with sponsored cycling events and more recently, they were early adopters of the donate a job scheme, of which they are still a member. You can see more our about our support by clicking here

The Woodland Trust are the UK’s largest woodland conservation charity, who’s vision is a world where woods and trees thrive for people and nature.

We are a long-standing supporter of this charity with monthly subscriptions.

Based in Molesey, Smiles is a Charity that assist young people of different ages when they are receiving medical treatments.

They are impacted differently, and of course some will deal with it more capably than others, but ultimately, no one likes to be taken away from their usual, comfortable environment and be experiencing ill health or injury that requires medical attention.

Raising Smiles help them to feel that they are not only being cared for and their recovery aided; but that they can still access many of the things that make the whole experience as normal as possible for them

Arbor Cultural have supported Raising Smiles for a number of years, and regularly run advertisements in their magazine.

Taylor Made Dreams enables children with life limiting illnesses to achieve their dreams and recently, Tom supported this charity by undertaking a sponsored Lego Walk and Fire Walk.

Ecoligi offers climate solutions for our planet, from tree planting, to funding certified climate avoidance projects, through to calculating your business’ footprint.

We are working towards setting up a reward scheme for our clients whereby we plant trees as part of our project delivery.

You can view our Ecologi web page here;

Business Connections

Arbor Cultural Ltd. regular attends business networking meetings and conferences, to exchange business, share ideas. And keep up to date with new developments. A few of these groups are listed below.