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Agricultural and Rural GrantsCountryside Stewardship Programme Countryside Stewardship is the makes payments to farmers and other land managers to enhance and conserve English landscapes, their wildlife and history and to help people to enjoy them Countryside Stewardship is the makes payments to farmers and other land managers to enhance and conserve English landscapes, their wildlife and history and to help people to enjoy them....more info Energy Crop Scheme The Energy Crops Scheme is a DEFRA scheme run in partnership with the Forestry Commission. The scheme encourages and promotes the cultivation of energy crops.Applicants need to demonstrate that they have or will have an energy end-use for the crops....more info Processing and Marketing Grants Processing and marketing grants enable capital investment in processing and marketing of English primary agricultural products. They also encourage farmers to become more competitive, respond to consumer demand, be more innovative and add value to their produce....more info Rural Enterprise Scheme The Rural Enterprise Scheme (RES) is part of the England Rural Development Programme (ERDP). It provides assistance for projects that help to develop more sustainable, diversified and enterprising rural economies and communities....more info Vocational Training Scheme The new Vocational Training Scheme provides funding for training that contributes to an improvement in the occupational skill and competence of farmers and others involved in farming and forestry activities and their diversification....more info Environmentally Sensitive Areas Scheme The Environmentally Sensitive Areas Scheme was introduced in 1987 to offer incentives to encourage farmers to adopt agricultural practices which would safeguard and enhance parts of the country of particularly high landscape, wildlife or historic value....more info Farm Woodland Premium Scheme DEFRA's Farm Woodland Premium scheme (FWPS) aims to enhance the environment through the planting of farm woodlands, thereby improving the landscape, providing new habitats and increasing biodiversity. It supports the creation of farm woodland by encouraging farmers to convert productive agricultural land to woodlands through annual payments to compensate for agricultural income forgone....more info Woodland Grant Scheme The Woodland Grant Scheme (WGS) provides grants to create new woodlands and to encourage the good management and regeneration of existing woodlands.The Woodland Grant Scheme also aims to encourage good management of forests and woodlands, including their well timed regeneration, particularly looking after the ancient and semi-natural woodlands; to provide jobs and improve the economy of rural areas and other areas with few other sources of economic; and to provide a use for land instead of agriculture ...more info Woodland Improvement Grants The Challenge Scheme provides grants to encourage the opening up of existing woodlands for informal recreational use; for work which will help bring woodlands which are under-managed or of low commercial value back into management and for work to assist woodland owners to manage their woods in ways which will implement the forestry aspects of Biodiversity, The UK Action Plan.....more info Hill Farm Allowance The Hill Farm Allowance (HFA) scheme is designed to ensure that agriculture continues to make its irreplaceable contribution to rural society and the managed environment of the English uplands by compensating hill farmers for the difficulties of farming in less favoured areas....more info Organic Farming Scheme The aim of the OFS is to encourage the expansion of organic production. Under the scheme, farmers moving from conventional to organic farming methods receive financial help during the conversion process. The scheme is being continued and expanded under the Programme....more info Vital Villages - Rural Transport Grants This is a scheme which gives grants to community-based transport projects in rural areas. Any organisation or RTP can apply for a grant, to help people who live in rural areas reach jobs, training, services and leisure opportunities, or to help everyone to reach the countryside....more info Vital Villages - Parish Transport Fund The Parish Transport Grant scheme helps people in rural communities to meet their own local transport needs. The scheme is a flexible one, supporting a wide range of small-scale projects to enhance the lives of local people.....more info Rural Bus Challenge Rural Bus Challenge funding can be used by Local Authorities to provide innovative transport projects within rural areas.Challenge funding can only be used to support a public passenger transport service (as defined in the Transport Act 2000) and / or any service or facility associated with such a service....more info Rural Priority Areas Rural Development Areas (RDA's) cover parts of 29 counties of England and 109 districts, including about 35% of the land area of England and some 6% of the population. The Rural Development Commission provided two main types of assistance in the RDA's: support for integrated rural development programmes and assistance to individual enterprises....more info Vital Villages - Community Services Fund The Community Services Fund will help those living in rural communities to meet their needs for local service provision. The fund will apply to parish areas, but applications can come from individuals, community groups, churches, independent retailers and parish councils....more info Door Step Greens Initiative As a result of a successful bid to the New Opportunities Fund, the Countryside Agency has been running a scheme (since Spring 2001) to assist 200 disadvantaged communities to design and create their own local green space or renew existing run-down spaces....more info Walking the Way to Health Initiative This initiative promotes the need to increase health and fitness through regular walking. The aim is to get more people walking in their local community which will benefit both their health and the local environment....more info Local Heritage Initiative Local Heritage Initiative is a national grant scheme that helps local groups to investigate, explain and care for their local landscape, landmarks, traditions and culture. Local Heritage Iniative (LHI) is about appreciating the past, by informing the present and encouraging thought and action for the future....more info Market Towns Initiative The Countryside Agency, in partnership with other organisations such as the regional development agencies, offers financial support for selected towns to carry out a market town healthcheck and implement an action plan....more info Vital Villages - Parish Plans Grant Scheme
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