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Funding Opportunities
Below is a list of current opportunities for funding sources that
may be of interest to groups or individuals.
For more detailed information/ application forms visit
Also on the website are details of other
current programmes.
Agri-environment
schemes:
Environmentally
Sensitive Areas (ESA) Scheme
Who? People within ESAs {Antrim Coast, Glens &
Rathlin}
Aims- Same principles as CMS
How to Apply- Open for applications all year
Contact for Information:
Countryside Management Branch OR Kilpatrick House
Annexe D 38-54 High St.
Dept. of Agric. & Rural Devel. Ballymena
Dundonald House BT43 6DT
Upper Newtownards Rd
Belfast
BT4 3SB
Tel: 028 90 520922 Tel: 028 25662800
Fax: 028 90 520924 Fax: 028 25662838
Countryside
Management Scheme (CMS)
Who? People outside the ESAs
Aims- To positively manage habitats
To improve water quality
To enhance the landscape & protect heritage with financial return
How to apply- Application period in late winter
Vision Enhancement Plan. Capital Works
(Vision
E-Plan)
Who? Participants in either ESAs or CMS
Aims- To enhance land and associated farmyards
How? Up to £1500 per year for each farm business
(based on 60% of costs)
Contact for information:
Orchard House
Derry
Tel: 028 71319900
Fax: 028 71319800
The Forest Service
Woodland Grant Scheme
Who? Owners/ occupiers of more than 0.2 hectares
of eligible land
Aims- Assistance in establishing new woodland
Assistance for existing woodland
How? 70% of payment is made after planting and
the remainder 5 years later
Farm Woodland Premium Scheme
Who? Owners/ occupiers of minimum eligible area of 1.0 hectares
Aims- Provides annual payments for established
woodland for 10 or 15yrs
Contact for Information:
Customer Services Manager
Forest Service
Room 34
Dundonald House
Upper Newtownards Rd
Belfast
BT4 3SB
Tel: 028 90524480
Fax: 028 90524570
email: customer.forestservice@dardni.gov.uk
or
David McMullan
Room 22
Dundonald House
Upper Newtownards Rd
Belfast
BT4 3SB
Tel: 028 90525498
Fax: 028 90524380
email: grants.forestservice@dardni.gov.uk
Forest Service also now has its own website at www.forestserviceni.gov.uk
.
Farm
Nutrient Management Scheme (N.I.) 2005
One
of DARD's corporate aims is the minimisation of pollution from agricultural
sources. The Farm Nutrient Management Scheme is a key measure to
help improve water quality. Adequate storage facilities for organic
manure enable farmers to spread when climatic, soil conditions and
crop uptake of nutrients are optimum, thereby ensuring more efficient
use of available nutrients and reduced nutrient run-off to surface
water.
The Nitrates
Directive seeks to reduce or prevent water pollution caused by the
application and storage of organic manure and chemical fertiliser
on farmland.
The recent
'Total Territory' declaration under the Nitrates Directive, due
to eutrophic (nutrient enriched) surface waters, will be followed
by consultation on the Action Programme measures to be introduced
across Northern Ireland. Key measures will include a closed period
for spreading and a minimum livestock manure storage capacity requirement,
which will necessitate an increase in storage capacity on many farms.
The provision
of adequate, improved specification storage capacity will make a
significant contribution to reducing point source and diffuse pollution
from agriculture. It will therefore have a positive impact in securing
compliance with the Nitrates Directive and other EC water Directives,
including the Water Framework Directive which will be the key driver
for water pollution policy in the future.
For
more information or to apply go to;
www.dardni.gov.uk/core/dard0640.htm
Organic Farming Scheme
Who? Farmers wishing to convert to organic farming
Aims- To encourage & develop organic farming
Annual payments available towards the conversion and initial costs
of advice & training
Contact for information:
Charlotte Moore
Greenmount College
Tel: 028 94426666
Less Favoured Areas Compensatory
Allowances Scheme (LFACA)
Who? Farmers who keep breeding sheep and/or suckler
cows in LFAs
Aims- To support traditional agriculture in LFAs
Contact for information:
Pat McMenamin, LFACA Scheme Manager
DARD Grants & Subsidies Payments Division
Orchard House
40 Foyle St
Derry
BT48 6AT
Tel: 028 71299072 / 028 71299069 / 028 71319868
Email:
Community Supported Agriculture
(CSA)
Who? Farmers wishing to enter into organic conversion,
especially
low-income disadvantaged areas (F&M)
Aims- To give farmers/ growers the fairest return
and a guaranteed market
To provide advice and training
Contact for information:
Soil Association
Greg Pilley
Bristol House
40-56 Victoria Street
Bristol
BS1 6BY
Email:
Peace II Measures specific to
Farm Families
{EU Programme for Peace & Reconciliation in NI}
Leader
+ Programme
Who? Any rural dwellers whose business has 10 or
less employees
Aims- Diversification. Goods/ service elements
How? Grants from £2,000 - £15,000
Contact for information:
Andrew or Eamonn
Leader +
Old Schoolhouse
Mill Street
Cushendall
BT44 0RR
Tel: 028 21772138
Fax: 028 21772137
