Here’s this months useful information, resources and funding.
New measures for supporting farmers
A major package of measures to support farmers and grow the UK’s farming and food sector has been announced by the Government. The package will support domestic food production, boost innovation in the sector and recruit the next generation of farming and food leaders.
Read more about the measures here
Support for farming families
Farm for the Future in England is heading into its final year, which is the last chance for family farms to receive FREE business and environmental support. Our locally delivered programme will take a whole farm and family approach to help farmers tackle challenges and grasp the opportunities on offer after the phasing out of BPS.
We deliver a flexible and engaging programme of workshops, online learning, signposting, 1:1 support, peer networking, and learning to groups of farms in 18 locations across England, as well as a virtual group in case we’re not in your area.
Click here to find out more
New look Events Listings
A new and improved What’s On page is now live on Visit Lake District. It allows users to filter events by date range, category, and location, and will now show all events in the system in one location. Cumbria Tourism members can submit an unlimited number of events for FREE (some T&Cs apply), but all submissions must include a photo. Cumbria Tourism also welcome non-members to add events to Visitlakedistrict.com but have to limit the number of events added by organisations not in Cumbria Tourism membership to a maximum of 6 events in any calendar year, with no more than 3 events listed concurrently Contact website@cumbriatourism.org with any questions.
Don’t miss out on £500 available to land based businesses
Land based businesses in the old Eden District Council and South Lakeland District Council areas can access up to £500 to help towards the cost of working with a consultant of their choice, thanks to funding through Westmorland & Furness Council’s UK Shared Prosperity Fund.
There are just 209 advice vouchers remaining available, to be spent by the end of December this year.
Advice vouchers can be used for a whole range of consultancy support, for example:
- Accountancy – operating more cost effectively and/or adapting to the changes in agricultural funding
- Legal – Farm & property sales & purchase, partnership matters & disputes, Landlord & tenant law, Basic Payment Scheme & other grant schemes, agricultural wills & succession planning
- Insurance – reviews, risk assessments, valuations
- Planning – planning advice, preparing planning applications and helping farming businesses use Agricultural Permitted Development Rights to support farm growth and diversification
- Architectural planning and design service
- Marketing – plans, campaigns, website development, PR
- Agricultural consultancy – specialised advice, support and guidance
No match funding is needed but businesses can choose to add more. We can however only fund work that has yet to start. It’s a really simple application process with only one quote needed (two if applying for over £2,000) and the voucher is paid directly to the business.
Anyone interested in applying should call 0844 2478450 or email info@cumbriagrowthhub.co.uk