UK funding preparation guide
Farm capital grants and SFI: avoid overlapping funding assumptions
A farm business can have several funding agreements with different purposes. Capital equipment, infrastructure and land-management payments should be recorded separately so the same expenditure or action is not inadvertently counted twice.
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Make the first review more concrete
Map farm capital investments and land-management actions to current official schemes, costs and obligations before combining support.
Review workflow
What FundingLens helps you do
Keep source facts, caveats and next actions together so your team can decide what deserves attention before application work starts.
Make an agreement register showing the legal applicant, parcels or assets, funded actions, start and end dates and outstanding claim duties. Use the actual offer or agreement rather than an old press announcement as the evidence of what was approved.
Compare a proposed investment against existing commitments and the current scheme's compatibility guidance. Flag any shared costs or similar environmental outcomes for the paying body's confirmation instead of assuming all farming schemes can be stacked.
For slurry projects, distinguish small equipment from storage infrastructure, planning and environmental requirements. A slurry equipment item on a closed FETF list is not evidence that a separate infrastructure round is taking new applications.
Keep a staged project plan: feasibility and permissions, funding decision, procurement, installation and claim. Update the plan when official guidance changes and do not infer a future deadline from a previous round's calendar.
Readiness checks
- Existing agreements and assets mapped.
- New expenditure assigned to one funding route.
- Compatibility questions referred to the paying body.
- Infrastructure permissions reviewed.
- Current source status recorded.
Eligibility caveats
- Scheme compatibility is case-specific.
- This guide does not certify subsidy, environmental or legal compliance.
- Closed scheme pages may remain useful for claim guidance but are not new application windows.
Source references
Use individual scheme guidance to distinguish equipment, infrastructure and productivity support, including closed schemes.
Official sourceFind funding for land or farmsStart with the official current funding finder and read each scheme's application and agreement guidance.
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