Develop a new farming product or service. If you have a new farming product or service you want to develop, you can apply to be funded as a ‘Research and Development (R&D) Partnership’ project. It’s your chance to pitch something that could improve farming methods and help the environment.

The fund encourages the creation of new forest blocks of at least 3 hectares and larger. The main benefit delivered under the scheme is to increase carbon capture (sequestration) and reduce the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Secondary benefits from the scheme include: the production of timber and wood for processing and marketing including material for renewable energy systems; improved biodiversity; improved water quality and public amenity value.

The fund aims to encourage landscape-scale collaborative projects between two or more landowners by providing support for project facilitation and co-ordination. The subsequent management activity can be supported through other options within the Forestry Grant Scheme.

There are lots of grants and support available to help you plant trees on your land and help create the Northern Forest.

The scheme supports the growing and utilisation of crops, which can result in improvements in the environmental performance of a farm business.

The fund focusses on fostering innovation, cooperation and the development of the knowledge base in rural areas; strengthening the links between agriculture, food production and innovation (including for the purpose of improving environmental management and performance) and fostering lifelong learning and vocational training in agriculture.

LENs, or Landscape Enterprise Networks, is a system for organising the buying and selling of nature-based solutions. LENs systematically brings a diversity of private and public-sector organisations together around a common interest in funding nature-based solutions within a given geography. LENs then brokers negotiations, and eventually transactions, between these buyers and groups of landowners who are in a position to deliver them on the ground.

The fund helps local authorities to restore tree cover in non-woodland areas which may have been impacted by issues such as disease, habitat degradation or ageing tree stock. The fund is focused on planting and natural colonisation of trees in areas outside of woodlands, including parklands, riparian zones, urban areas, beside roads and footpaths as well as trees in hedgerows and field boundaries (not hedgerows themselves).

The MOREhedges initiative is intended to create new ecological links with woodland in the surrounding landscape.

The fund is designed to create new habitat for wildlife across the UK.