Farmer Collaboration Fund
Funding for England-based organisations running farming collaboration groups.
The Farmer Collaboration Fund is for delivery partners that run collaboration groups for farmers, land managers and growers. It funds the costs of running those groups and access to expert advice where needed.
Delivery partners use existing strategies and plans to identify priority outcomes, then show how the groups they support will deliver them. They must support at least 5 farming collaboratio…
The fund supports collaboration groups in ways that are important for their area and help achieve Defra’s objectives. Priorities are expected to be wide-ranging and locally relevant. Delivery partners should use existing strategies and plans to identify priority outcomes and demonstrate actions that groups will take to achieve them.
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