New RDPE Funding Available

New funding is available under the Rural Development Programme for England scheme. The funding will cover a range of items under the headings of Increasing Farm Productivity to Providing Rural Services.

New funding is available under the Rural Development Programme for England scheme. The funding will cover a range of items under the headings of Increasing Farm Productivity to Providing Rural Services. There are no specific guidelines that cover everybody, so if you have any projects in mind at all, let us know what you are considering and we will see if we can find a way of making it fit to the specific scheme for your area.

Grants of between £10,000 and £100,000 are available and will fund up to 40% of eligible projects. As the minimum grant is £10,000, this does mean that only projects with a total value of £25,000 and above will be eligible.

The grant is much more flexible than it was previously and is certainly worth looking at if you are considering a project at any point in the next 3 – 4 years.