Introduction

Find out about the grant and what it's made up of.

1 Introduction

Countryside Stewardship is administered by the Rural Payments Agency (RPA) on behalf of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra). Natural England provides technical advice in support of the scheme.

The Countryside Stewardship (CS) facilitation fund supports facilitators (individuals and organisations) who bring farmers, foresters, and other land managers together to improve the local natural environment at a landscape scale.

This can cover:

  • land under existing agri-environment and forestry/woodland agreements
  • common land
  • land that is not currently under agreement

The facilitation fund builds on the principles of partnership working to deliver environmental benefits.

Funding will be awarded to successful applications through a competitive process. The highest scoring eligible applications will, subject to the available budget, be offered an agreement.

Successful applications will be those which show a partnership working together across holdings, to deliver shared environmental outcomes that could not be achieved by individual holdings acting on their own.

The 바카라 사이트 has confirmed that it will guarantee funding for Countryside Stewardship grants if they are:

  • agreed and signed before 31 December 2020
  • good value for money
  • in line with domestic strategic priorities

Countryside Stewardship supports Defra바카라 사이트™s Strategic Objective of 바카라 사이트˜a cleaner, healthier environment, benefitting people and the economy.

It also supports Defra바카라 사이트™s 25 year environment plan 바카라 사이트˜for our country to be the healthiest, most beautiful place in the world to live, work and bring up a family

1.1 More information

Read the main Facilitation Fund: Countryside Stewardship page on 바카라 사이트

For Countryside Stewardship forms go to 바카라 사이트

1.2 How to get help

if you need further advice, email CS-Facilitation-Fund@rpa.gov.uk or call us on 03000 200 301 (Monday to Friday, 8.30am - 5pm).