The new facilitation fund will support coordinators to work with farms in the same geographical area.
The new Countryside Stewardship scheme will be targeted to make sure that agreements deliver specific local priorities, such as the creation of wildlife corridors, which can help improve the natural environment’s resilience. Working with farmers, foresters and land managers to work together, these facilitators will promote a landscape scale approach to addressing these local priorities.
Farming Minister George Eustice said: “If we are to maximise the impact of our new Countryside Stewardship scheme we must encourage the adoption of conservation measures across the wider countryside. This will support some of our fundamental aims such as reversing the decline in farmland birds and supporting wild pollinators.
This Facilitation Fund is the latest in a series of RDPE grants that have been rolled out over the last month.