Other Funds for Cumbria

Other Funds

INTRODUCTION

How may we help?

See Government Office for the North West booklet:
http://www.go-nw.gov.uk/nwraf/documents/fundsrce2.pdf

1. Countryside Agency: http://www.countryside.gov.uk/

- Vital Villages
- Market and Coastal Towns Initiative
- Local Heritage Initiative
- Doorstep Greens
- Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund

2. Defra: http://www.defra.gov.uk/

- Rural Enterprise Scheme
- Planning Consultancy Advice for Farm Diversification
- Vocational Training Scheme
- Processing and Marketing Grant
- Energy Crops Scheme
- Environmentally Sensitive Areas
- Countryside Stewardship Scheme
- Organic Farming Scheme
- Hill Farm Allowance Scheme
- The Producer Organisation (Fresh Fruit & Veg) Aid Scheme
- Farm Waste Grant Scheme
- Associated Schemes – Bioenergy
- Associated Schemes – Community & Household

3. English Heritage: http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/default.asp

- Historic Buildings and Monuments, Parks and Gardens Grants
- Heritage Economic Regeneration Scheme
- Section 17 Management Agreements

4. English Nature: http://www.english-nature.org.uk/

- Management Agreements
- Biodiversity Grant Scheme
- Wildlife Enhancement Scheme
- Local Nature Reserves Grant Scheme
- Reserves Enhancement Scheme
- Section 35 National Nature Reserves Capital Grant Scheme
- Land Purchase Grants
- Local Biodiversity Grants
- College-English Nature Links (CEL) Grants Scheme
- Volunteer Action Grants Scheme

5. Forestry Commission: http://www.forestry.gov.uk/

- Woodland Grant Scheme
- Farm Woodland Premium Scheme
- North West England Conservancy

6. Government Office: http://www.go-nw.gov.uk/

- Objective 2
- Objective 3

7. Regional Development Agency

- Rural renaissance
- Rural workspace funding/Rural Small Buildings Scheme
- The Rural Planning Facilitation Service

8. Small Business Service: http://www.sbs.gov.uk/

- Farm Business Advice Service (FBAS): http://www.sbs.gov.uk/farming/default.php
- Enhanced Farm business Advice Service (Enhanced FBAS)

9. Others

- Cumbria Rural Enterprise Agency: http://www.crea.co.uk/

- Distinctly Cumbrian (Pauline Herbert - 01768 891 555): http://www.crea.co.uk/distinctlycumbrian.htm

- Made In Cumbria: http://www.madeincumbria.co.uk/

- Farm Care Cooperative (William Houstoun - 01768 840 562)

- Cumbria Woodlands - Neville Elstone - 01539 822140: http://www.cumbriawoodlands.co.uk/

- Rural Regeneration Cumbria - Kate Willard or Richard Pealing 01931 711130: http://www.ruralcumbria.co.uk/

- North West Development Agency: http://www.nwda.co.uk/

- Veronica Waller - tel 01768 869 533

- Rural Women’s Network - tel: 01768 210 997: http://www.ruralwomen.org.uk/

- Enterprising Communities - tel: 01768 210 044: http://www.enterprisingcommunities.org.uk

- Voluntary Action Cumbria - tel: 01768 242 130: http://www.ruralcumbria.org.uk/

- Friends of the Lake District: http://www.fld.org.uk/

- NFU Countryside Online: http://www.countrysideonline.co.uk/
Resource for rural issues, rural news, countryside events, attractions and related matters.