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To support farmers through the agricultural transition, we’re offering free business advice to those who currently receive direct payments.
Through the Future Farming Resilience Fund, we’re paying independent advisers to explain how the changes happening to farming will affect farmers and help them to prepare.
In total, 19 providers across England are offering the advice.
As I mentioned in a previous post, the fund is structured in 3 phases. We are currently in the second phase. It was due to end in March 2022, but we’re extending this phase until September 2022.
We appreciate that 2021’s late harvest made it difficult for farmers to apply in time and take up was slower than expected.
So, we’ve offered all our providers an extension of up to 6 months, which is when the next phase of support is expected to begin.
This will give providers more time to deliver the support. The new end dates for each of the projects are set out in the table below.
We hope this extension will encourage more people to get in touch with an adviser and work out the best plan for their farms. The final phase of support will operate over a longer timescale; launching later in 2022 and running until March 2025.
Get free adviceIf you’d like to access free business advice, all you need to do is take a look at the list of advisers below and contact them directly.
The advisers are offering support in different ways: it could be delivered in the form of workshops supported by experts or through one-to-one conversations.
Organisation Contact Phone Coverage Sector End date ADAS resilience@adas.co.uk 03301 755839 England Any sector 31 May 2022 AHDB FarmBusinessReview@ahdb.org.uk 0247 5189300 England Grazing livestock & Cereals 31 August 2022 Berrys will.davies@berrys.uk.com 07469858749 Shropshire, Staffordshire, Cheshire, Worcestershire, Herefordshire, Gloucestershire, Wiltshire, Oxfordshire, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Warwickshire, Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Northamptonshire, Rutland, Leicestershire, Derbyshire. No particular sector 31 May 2022 Brown & Co defraffr@brown-co.com 01480 598875 Hertfordshire, Northumberland, Durham, Yorkshire, Humber, Lincolnshire, Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Warwickshire, Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire, Herefordshire, Shropshire, Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire, Bucks, Bedfordshire, Northamptonshire, Essex, Kent, Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Somerset. Targeting all farmers and farm types including arable, livestock, mixed and roots. 30 June 2022 Bury Beet Group jamiegwatkin@btinernet.com 01284386111 Suffolk and Norfolk Arable and sugar beet 31 March 2022 Ceres Rural sebastian.murray@ceresrural.co.uk george.badger@ceresrural.co.uk 01865790790 Cambridgeshire, Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire, Oxfordshire, Warwickshire, Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire, Essex, Suffolk, Kent, Sussex, Berkshire, Gloucestershire, Wiltshire, Hampshire, Surrey and Norfolk. Arable 30 April 2022 Devon County Council linda.wilson@devon.gov.uk charlotte.molyneux@devon.gov.uk 01392383000 Devon and Somerset No particular sector 31 May 2022 DJM Consulting helen@theruralbusiness.co.uk 01746714089 Shropshire, West Midlands, South Staffordshire, Warwickshire, Worcestershire, Herefordshire, Gloucestershire, Derbyshire, Northamptonshire, Cambridgeshire, Oxfordshire, Leicestershire, Rutland, Nottinghamshire, Lincolnshire No particular sector 31 August 2022 JH Agri Consultancy jhadwin@jhagriconsultancy.co.uk 07739176667 Cumbria, Yorkshire, Lancashire, Cheshire, Northumberland Livestock 31 August 2022 Kite Consulting jennie.moore@kiteconsulting.com 01902854797 England Dairy 31 August 2022 Landworkers Alliance jyoti.fernandes@landworkersalliance.org.uk 07875849754 England Horticulture, dairy, SME meat, mixed farming 31 March 2022 Laurence Gould Partnership keith@laurencegould.com 07968412052 Kent, East Sussex, West Sussex, Surry, Hampshire, Isle of Wight, Dorset, Wiltshire, Devon, Cornwall, Somerset, Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire, Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Rutland, Worcestershire, Warwickshire, Oxfordshire, Northamptonshire, Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire, Berkshire, Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk, Cambridgeshire, Northumberland, Cumbria, Durham No particular sector 31 August 2022 M B Hodgson & Son Limited kathryn@nwauctions.co.uk 01539566222 Cumbria, North Lancashire, North Yorkshire Livestock 31 August 2022 Natural Enterprise graham.biss@naturalenterprise.co.uk 01983296244 Isle of Wight No particular sector 30 April 2022 NIAB elizabeth.stockdale@niab.com 07957966802 Wessex and Cotswolds Arable 1 March 2022 Promar International sandra.callwood@genusplc.com 07971 118688 England Dairy, Beef and Sheep 31 May 2022 Ricardo-AEA Ltd ffrf@ricardo.com 01235 753530 England No particular sector 30 June 2022 SRUC neil.carter@sac.co.uk 07825 781347 England Any sector 31 August 2022 The Prince's Countryside Fund project@countrysidefund.org.uk 07551848892 Cumbria, Yorkshire, Lancashire, Northumberland, Durham Dales, Peak District, Dartmoor, Exmoor, Lincolnshire, Herefordshire, Cornwall. There will also be a virtual group. Dairy, Beef and Sheep 30 April 2022 Video: Farmers share their experiencehttps://defrafarming.blog.gov.uk/2022/01/14/more-time-for-farmers-to-apply-for-free-business-advice/
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