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Director at Access Insurance
Tim Larden is a Director at Access Insurance. He has 25+ years experience in the insurance sector, with 20 years specialising in the charity sector. In 2015 he took up the running of charity-specialists Ladbrook Insurance, which was acquired by Access Insurance in 2025.
Access is an ethically driven, Chartered Insurance Broker that services over 18,000 charity and not-for-profit organisations.
Access Insurance is part of the Benefact Group, giving all available profits to charity, and being owned by a charitable trust. The Group is an international family of financial service businesses with deep charity expertise in insurance, broking and investment management.
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