Graham Barrow Research and Consulting Ltd is a specialist consultancy company offering planning and research services in environmental and heritage management, interpretation, recreation and tourism, sustainable development and associated community involvement and consultation issues. We work for the public, private and voluntary sectors, largely in the UK and occasionally overseas.

The company was established in June 1997 and is based in Bollington near Macclesfield, Cheshire. We offer a personal service to clients as well as specialist support to larger consultancy companies and heritage organisations. The company Director, Graham Barrow, has a range of professional associates throughout Britain, giving him the ability to assemble a multi-disciplinarily team to suit clients needs.

Graham is qualified in geography, conservation, planning and European Environmental Policy and Regulation and has had a professional career spanning over 30 years. He has worked in environmental education in the Lake District, for the Countryside Commission for Scotland, for a local authority, in a landscape and architectural consultancy in Glasgow and for 13 years was a Director of the national Centre for Environmental Interpretation (CEI) at the Manchester Metropolitan University.

Graham was a member of the Royal Town Planning Institute for over 25 years. He is an Associate Consultant with the nationally and internationally renowned tourism consultancy – TEAM Tourism Consulting (TEAM) and a founder member of Heritage and Tourism International (HTI). Graham is a past chairman of his local Civic Society and in 2007 became chairman of the Bollington Initiative Trust - a local Development Trust in Cheshire.