Grants & FundingFunding opportunities
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Defra Funding
Start with national schemes, then explore local and specialist opportunities below.
- Sustainable Farming Incentive
- Countryside Stewardship
- Landscape Recovery
- Water and air quality grants
- Reduction of flood risk grants
- Protection of species and habitat grants
- Protection of animal health and welfare grants
- Creation or improvement of woodland and tree health grants
- Investment in technology and infrastructure to improve productivity
Countryside Stewardship
Search for options, supplements and capital items to include in your Countryside Stewardship application on this page. Explore hundreds of grants and capital items available.
Catchment sensitive farming
Catchment Sensitive Farming (CSF) works with farmers and partners across England to produce food in a way that protects water, soil and air. CSF approval is required for some capital items designed to improve water quality. CSF can also offer access to free specialist advice for many aspects of your farm business, including soil health, nutrient management, farm infrastructure, air quality and water resources, among others.
Rural payments agency
Visit the Rural Payments Agency YouTube channel for advice on how to apply for the various schemes and negotiate the online service.
Green finance
Landowners with available land can now quickly and easily be found by developers who need to site natural capital elements or carbon offsetting. The Green Offset is an innovative new ‘matchmaking’ scheme that is free for landowners to register their land on in a secure way. The website links up parties looking to find land for any environmental requirements with landowners who have land available to facilitate this.
Biodiversity offsetting
Biodiversity offsets are conservation schemes that compensate for any residual loss of habitat by development, such as housing. Developers are required to compensate for these losses by funding the creation or restoration of wildlife habitat in the vicinity of the development. Offset schemes are delivered and managed by landowners who are willing to create or enhance suitable habitats and manage them over the long term (30 years). For example, this might include the creation and management of species-rich grassland or ponds. The agreement will guarantee payments to the landowner to fund all habitat enhancements and management costs, plus potentially other economic losses (e.g., stocking number reductions) for the 30 years.
Environmental Farmers’ Group (Central England region)
EFG is a company set up by farmers for farmers to work together to improve our farmed environment and trade confidently and transparently with business and commercial organisations in the natural capital markets.
Severn Trent
Severn Trent offers funding for various actions that improve water quality and biodiversity.
These include STEPS and the Test, Protect and Improve programme, which is aiming to reduce faecal organisms in some of Warwickshire’s rivers: the River Avon upstream of Warwick, and the River Leam.
Your local advisers:
- Una McBride (Bourne and Blythe)
- Marion Perrett-Pearson (Avon and Leam)
- Peter Bowman (Avon and Leam)
- Jess Lay (Test, Protect and Improve)
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