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27 Mar 2015

The CaBA News – Catchment Sensitive Farming (CSF) Water Grant is open for application

CaBA News: ‘A one off Catchment Sensitive Farming (CSF) Water Grant is open for application, deadline April 30th 2015. If you are in a CSF catchment and have the opportunity to promote these grants to farmers please get them in-touch with your local CSF officer. For further information go to: Water Capital Grants https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/guide-to-countryside-stewardship-water-capital-grants-2015 The […]

16 Mar 2015

Channel management handbook for flood risk management – Defra & Environment Agency Report

News

Given the huge debate a year ago around channel management, this report is highly timely guidance from Government. It will be interesting to see how the recommendations in this guidance play out over time with the NFU in particular pressing for more ad hoc action (‘less red tape’) by farmers. Environment Agency / Defra ‘A […]

01 Mar 2015

Water Capital Grants scheme – £14 million now available to farmers for water and woodlands

News

The first grants have opened up under the new Rural Development Programme for England. The Water and Woodland Capital Grants make up the first phase of the Countryside Stewardship Scheme. Set to be rolled out in full later in the summer, Countryside Stewardship will commit around £900m to benefitting the environment over the next six […]

17 Feb 2015

£4.7 million – Catchment Partnership Action Fund CPAF3 Application Guidance – Feb 2015 Act Now

News

Environment Agency A new approach is being taken to support catchment partnerships and distribute funds in the 2015/16 period. Every catchment partnership will be given the opportunity to submit an application to deliver projects in line with the Catchment Partnership Action Fund (CPAF) guidelines . £4.775 million has been awarded which would equate to £46K […]

28 Oct 2014

Stakeholder lead spatial visualization of ecosystem provision across a catchment landscape – The West Country Rivers Trust

News

The West Country Rivers Trust, in collaboration with DEFRA and the Rivers Trust, has developed a method for undertaking stakeholder-led spatial visualisation of ecosystem services provisioning areas across a catchment landscape. During this participatory process, primary, secondary and tertiary stakeholders and technical specialists work with a broker/facilitator to collate and scrutinise all of the data […]

02 Jun 2014

Catchment Based Approach Newsletter

News Uncategorized

This is our second newsletter giving you an update on the latest developments in the Catchment Based Approach (CaBA), what is happening nationally and what we in Defra have been working on: · 2014/15 CaBA funding · Ministerial catchment visit · Ministerial support for catchment working at CIWEM conference · Other CaBA news · ConnectRight […]