Grants and funding: A to Z list of Defra schemes
This page lists all relevant schemes alphabetically. Select schemes that interest you, to read more.
Scheme |
Summary |
| Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund | Aims to minimise demand for primary aggregates, promote environmentally friendly extraction and transport, and reduce local effects of aggregate extraction. |
| Agriculture Development Scheme | Scheme is now closed to new applicants Grants for industry-led measures in England to improve marketing performance and competition. |
| CAP Reform | New Single Payment Scheme replaces ten major CAP payment scheme. See www.defra.gov.uk/farm/capreform/index.htm |
| Countryside Stewardship Scheme | Scheme now closed and being replaced
by Environmental Stewardship. Encouraged farmers and land-managers to enter into 10 year agreements to manage their land in environmentally beneficial ways. |
| Energy Crops Scheme | Grants to establish short-rotation coppice (SRC) or miscanthus; and helps SRC growers set up producer groups. |
| English Woodland Grant Scheme * | Grants to private landowners to encourage
the creation of new
woodlands
and
to assist
with
the management
of existing woodlands. Successor to Farm
Woodland Premium Scheme and Woodland
Grant Scheme. * Links to Forestry Commission website |
| Entry-Level Stewardship | Part of Environmental Stewardship |
| Environmental Action Fund | Grants to voluntary sector groups to further Government sustainable development objectives. |
| Environmentally Sensitive Areas Scheme | Scheme replaced by Environmental Stewardship incentives to agricultural practices to safeguard and enhance parts of the country of particularly high landscape, wildlife or historic value. |
| Environmental Stewardship | Incorporates Entry-Level Stewardship; Higher-Level Stewardship; Organic Entry Level Stewardship |
| EU Structural Funds: EAGGF Objective 1 | Promotes development in certain economically-disadvantaged regions |
| Farm Waste Grant Scheme | Scheme now closed helped farmers in Nitrate Vulnerable Zones (NVZs) install or improve farm waste facilities. |
| Farm Woodland Premium Scheme | Scheme now closed aimed to enhance the environment through the planting of farm woodlands. See English Woodland Grant Scheme *Links to Forestry Commission website |
| Higher-Level Stewardship | Part of Environmental Stewardship |
| Hill Farm Allowance | Supports beef and sheep producers farming in the English Less Favoured Areas (LFAs). |
| Land Purchase Grants | English Nature grants to voluntary nature conservation organisations to acquire and manage important areas of land. |
| LEADER+ | European Community Initiative to help rural communities improve local quality of life and economic prosperity. |
| Local Heritage Initiative | Grants for local groups to investigate, explain and care for their local landscape, landmarks, traditions and culture. |
| Organic Entry Level Stewardship | Part of Environmental Stewardship |
| Organic Farming Scheme | Scheme now closed and being replaced by Organic
Entry Level Stewardship Encouraged expansion of organic production. |
| Parish Plans | Small grants are available to support local consultation to produce Parish Plans that identify needs and set out how these might be tackled. |
| Processing and Marketing Grant | Scheme now closed to new applicants Grants for capital investment in processing and marketing agricultural products. |
| Rural Enterprise Scheme | Scheme now closed to new applicants Supports projects aiming to develop more sustainable, diversified and enterprising rural economies and communities. |
| Sea fisheries grants | Grants to help the fishing industry restructure onto a more sustainable basis. |
| Sheep and Wildlife Enhancement Scheme | Scheme now closed as a result of CAP Reforms. |
| Single Payment Scheme (CAP) | New single payment replaces ten major CAP payment scheme. See www.defra.gov.uk/farm/capreform/index.htm |
| Vital Villages | Scheme now closed included Parish Plan Grant (see "Parish Plans"), Community Services Grant, Parish Transport Grant Schemes and Rural Transport Partnership Grants. |
| Vocational Training Scheme | Scheme now closed to new applicants Funds vocational (ie a person’s occupation or work) training for those engaged in farming or forestry |
| Woodland Grant Scheme | Scheme now closed aimed to enhance the environment through the creation of new woodlands. See English Woodland Grant Scheme *Links to Forestry Commission website |
| Wildspace Grant Scheme | Grants to local communities for Local Nature Reserves. |
Page last modified:
16 October 2007
Page published: 01 April 2005