Animal Health and Welfare Grant

The first application window for animal health and welfare items closed at midday on 1st May 2024.

For more details about funding to improve animal health and welfare click here. To find out how to apply for funding click here.

Slurry Infrastructure grant - round 2

If you were invited to submit a full application for the Slurry Infrastructure grant in round 2, you must submit your forms and supporting evidence by 11:59pm on 27th June 2025. Read the guidance here.

Invest in equipment, technology and infrastructure to increase productivity

You can apply for grants through the Farming Investment Fund (FIF) to invest in new technology, equipment and infrastructure.

The Farming Equipment and Technology Fund (FETF) 2025 has 3 grants to help you buy items to:  

• Improve productivity
• Manage slurry
• Improve animal health and welfare

Open: 29 May 2025.

Grant value: between £1,000 and £25,000 for each grant theme.

Closing date: midday on 10 July 2025.

Improving Farm Productivity grant (round 2)

Grant value:

between £25,000 and £500,000 for robotic or automatic equipment.

between £15,000 and £100,000 for solar photovoltaic (PV) systems.

Closing date: invited applicants have until 11.59pm on 31 July 2025 to submit their full application.

Read the guidance for Improving Farm Productivity round 2 applicants.

Create or improve woodland and protect tree health

Creating woodland

The England Woodland Creation Grant (EWCO) provides funding to create new woodland on areas that are at least 1 hectare.

Open: all year round.

Grant value: up to £10,200 per hectare with an additional £12,700 per hectare if the woodland delivers wider benefits to society, nature recovery and the environment.

Read the Forestry Commission’s overview of grants available for woodland creation, maintenance, management and tree health.

Creating regional woodland

If your land is located within the catchment area of one of our local Woodland Creation Partners, you could apply for a regional woodland creation or tree planting grant that can be tailored to your circumstances.

Catchment areas are as follows:

• England’s Community Forests – 13 local Community Forests across the country
• The Northern Forest – in parts of Lancashire, Merseyside, Yorkshire, Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire
• The National Forest – right in the heart of the country, covering 200 square miles of the Midlands
• Forest for Cornwall – across Cornwall
• Great Northumberland Forest – across Northumberland

Our woodland creation campaign tells you more about these regional grants.

Planning woodland

The Woodland Tree Health (WTH) grant offers grants for 10-year woodland management planning.

Open: all year round.

Grant value: depends on the area of eligible woodland.

The Woodland Creation Planning Grant (WCPG) provides funding to prepare a Woodland Creation Design Plan that complies with the UK Forestry Standard.

Open: all year round.

Grant value: maximum £30,500 per project.

You can use this plan to support further woodland creation grant applications, such as EWCO.

Protecting tree health

You can apply to the tree health pilot scheme to test different ways of slowing the spread of pests and diseases affecting trees in England. Grants are available for:

• Ash with ash dieback
• Diseased larch, spruce and sweet chestnut
• Oak with oak processionary moth
• Restocking trees

Open: all year round.

Grant value:- up to 80% of felling costs per m3- up to 40% of infrastructure costs

The Woodland Tree Health (WTH) grant pays you to restock or improve woodland after tree health problems.

Open: all year round.

Grant value: varies depending on the capital items chosen as part of your CS grant agreement.

Read more about the Farming Investment Fund

The Farming Transformation Fund is part of the Farming Investment Fund. Find more information here about funding for farmers, foresters, growers and contractors to help them invest in new technology.