Joel Cadbury

Joel Cadbury (born 28 July 1971) is an English Entrepreneur & Philanthropist, the son of Peter Cadbury (Westward Television & Keith Prowse) and Jennifer d'Abo (Ryman, Moyses Stevens and multiple winner of UK Business Woman of the Year award), and heir to the Cadbury chocolate dynasty.

Joel Cadbury is best known as Founder & Chief Executive of Longshot Limited and alongside his partner, Ollie Vigors, they have built up a company that develops a wide range of property and leisure businesses across central London. These have included Vingt Quatre – London's first and only 24 hour restaurant, the iconic media business The Groucho Club & The Third Space – the Health Club which incorporates an Organic Supermarket & Café and London's largest Integrated Centre of Medicine – as well as being voted the Number 1 Health Club in the World by BA's High Life magazine in 2001.

Following the sale of these businesses by the end of 2007 for in excess of £50 million, Cadbury remained on the Board of The Third Space for a year and the Groucho Club until 2010. He has since made numerous investments into Entrepreneurial businesses in the UK, three of which he continues to serve as a Non-Executive Director.

Cadbury is also committed to philanthropic work, most notably as the Chairman of The Royal Parks Foundation, the charitable organisation responsible for 5,000 acres of London's 8 amazing Royal Parks. He leads a Board of 14 Trustees drawn from the pinnacle of the worlds of business, finance, media, politics and conservation, who all share a deep passion for the Parks. The Charity funds and manages a wide variety of projects, ranging from education, wildlife conservation and landscape restoration, to community sport and art. He is also a Patron of the Motor Neurone Disease Association (MNDA), which arose from his leadership of the National Wheelchair Campaign for MNDA.

Other activities include the creation of a swimathon for Action on Addiction, the Jennifer d'Abo Memorial Scholarship for British female Entrepreneurs, with fellow trustees Dame Vivien Duffield and Lord Stevenson of Coddenham, The Invitational Golf Tournament at Woburn with Rupert Hambro and the St Paul's Knightsbridge Foundation with Alexander Armstrong & Sahar Hashemi. Joel is also patron of Maths Action, a non-profit organisation, which aims to improve maths performance in Britain with Shirley Conran, OBE.

As well as other interests in the UK, Joel has found other investment opportunities in India, specifically in areas where Longshot have previously been successful. Cadbury is also a trustee of UnLtd India, a foundation working with social Entrepreneurs in India to benefit local communities.

In 2009, Longshot Limited started again and raised significant funds to acquire leisure businesses with real underlying assets and in need of new capital and management.

In early 2010, Longshot Limited set up Longshot Country Inns to build a portfolio of Freehold Food & Beverage assets, within the A3/M40 corridor. The first purchase was in September 2010 - a small group of high quality Restaurants, known as Bel & The Dragon, which have made an ideal platform to build a medium sized Estate of Freehold Country Inns.

In April 2011, Longshot purchased Cherkley Court, a 400 acre estate formally home of the Beaverbrook family for almost 100 years.