£15,000 grants for young farming entrepreneurs in Wales
Young farming entrepreneurs in Wales looking to set up on their own for the first time could be able to claim a grant of up to £15,000 through the Young Entrants Support Scheme (YESS). Alun Davies, the Minister for Natural Resources and Food, has just approved almost £1.8 million to extend the scheme to support […]
The Farming & Forestry Improvement Scheme is here
It has been announced by DEFRA that the third round of the Farming & Forestry Improvement Scheme Grant, which expects to award around £10 million of grants to successful applicants will be launched today and will then close on the 4 April 2014. The Grant Aid is paid in arrears, so any successful applicant will […]
Cranleigh farmers offer grants to agricultural and horticultural students
Cranleigh farmers know just how difficult it can be to get started and every year they make a number of grants available to help students. The maximum value of each grant is £500. Applicants must be from Surrey and West Sussex, be aged between 16 and 25 years old and be about to start […]
Second chance for farmers to access 40% Defra grants towards GEA Farm Technologies milking and cooling equipment
The FFIS is part of the Rural Development Programme for England (RDPE) and aims to help make farming businesses more profitable and resilient whilst reducing the impact of farming on the environment. David Wenner at GEA Farm Technologies, said: “We’ve had a number of farmers successfully receive grants from the first round which ended in […]
African Ministers visit Bucks rural businesses
The Royal Agricultural College supports a programme of international development to encourage international sharing of best practice in rural economic development. Many of the team are ministers in agriculture from a range of African countries such as Nigeria, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Mozambique and Malawi. The group are in Buckinghamshire keen to see how farmers in Bucks […]
New drive for rural growth
Thousands of farms and rural businesses have a second chance to boost their business prospects with millions of pounds in grant support, Farming Minister Jim Paice announced today. Applications will be invited for grants of up to £25,000 to enable businesses to buy new machinery and develop green projects, while whole communities in the remotest […]
New Grants Announced BY HRH The Prince of Wales
HRH The Prince of Wales will today (13th July 2011) announce six new grants from The Princes Countryside Fund. Donating nearly 200,000, the money will go to six projects that support the Fund’s objectives of ensuring a sustainable future for British farmers and rural communities and caring for the people who take care of the countryside. […]
