Business Name, Town | Total Project Value | Grant Awarded | Project Start Date | Project End Date | Project Description |
Mosedale End Farm, Mosedale, Cumbria. | £38,969.23 | £36,152.03 | 1/7/2022 | 28/2/2024 | Repair a traditional barn's wooden floor to that more hay can be made, improving hay meadows and biodiversity and reducing plastic wrapping needed for bales. Good for habitats and lowering carbon footprint. |
West Cumbria Rivers Trust, Keswick, Cumbria. | £8,948.87 | £8,411.32 | 27/7/2022 | 31/3/2024 | Bengarth sustainable water supply: To provide a piped water supply and water troughs within 12 fields. |
Ewelock Bank Farm, Greenholme, Cumbria. | £4,812.00 | £3,629.00 | 30/6/2022 | 31/3/2024 | Enhancement of work to improve habitats for bees, bats and owls by providing boxes and hives for them to live, breed and overwinter in. |
Federation of Cumbria Commoners, Ashbank Farm, Gamblesby, Cumbria. | £86,510.00 | £67,600.00 | 16/8/2022 | 31/3/2023 | The Lakelands Shepherds' Guide has, for the last century been updated every 20 years, the last update being in 2005. The objective is to update the Lakeland Shepherds' Guide and produce it in traditional book form, and also a digitized version, that can be made more broadly available on a new website giving general information on hill farming, commoning, sheep breeds and their contribution to the Lake District WHS. The updated version of the Shepherds' Guide will also provide an analysis of the changes in hill farming over the last 20 years. |
Food, Farming and Countryside Commission, Cumbria | £8,000.00 | £2,000.00 | 3/3/2022 | 8/4/2022 | FFCC: Development of a Farming Smarter Toolkit which aims to support upland livestock farm businesses. |
Gill Brow Farm, Keswick, Cumbria. | £6,976.00 | £6,976.00 | 12/3/2022 | 28/2/2023 | Feasibility study into the restoration of a traditional barn. |
Messrs. Cockbain & Sons, Rakefoot Farm, Castlerigg, Cumbria. | £20,772.00 | £8,522.13 | 14/10/2022 | 31/1/2023 | Extending Hay Barn at Castle Lonning to give the option of making additional hay and store without wrap. |
Low Stanger Farm, Cockermouth, Cumbria. | £3,648.00 | £3,648.00 | 17/6/2022 | 28/2/2023 | Hedgerow Restoration: To restore approximately 540m of hedgerow on the farm. |
Low Skelgill Farm, Newlands, Cumbria. | £11,683.00 | £11,683.00 | 14/4/2022 | 30/9/2022 | Pond Creation and Bird Habitat Formation: To transform Low Skelgill Farm into a nature-friendly farm with a wide variety of habitats . Creation of a pond, approximately 0.4 ha through earthworks and restore a number of nest boxes. |
Wescoe Farm, Threlkeld, Cumbria. | £8,951.00 | £8,951.00 | 18/5/2022 | 18/11/2022 | Barn Restoration at Wescoe Farm: Feasibility study to repair the barn to former agricultural use. |
Low Bridge End Farm, Keswick, Cumbria. | £25,680.40 | £25,680.40 | 26/7/2022 | 31/10/2023 | To reinstate and repair the woodland trail at Low Bridge End Farm. |
Messrs. Robinson, Gateghyll, Keswick, Cumbria. | £15,878.20 | £15,870.20 | 22/6/2022 | 30/1/2023 | Restoring the historic environment at Gateghyll: Restoration of 208m of drystone walls, 560m of top wiring and undertaking a feasibility study for the restoration of a traditional stone and slate farm building. |
Seatoller Farm, Keswick, Cumbria. | £11,486.13 | £11,283.08 | 8/11/2022 | 28/2/2024 | Habitat and boundary improvements at Seatoller Farm: Improving riparian habitat by fencing off the larger area, doing some coppicing and planting additional trees. Restoring drystone walls. |
Low Swinkle Bank Cottage, Kendal, Cumbria. | £4,896.00 | £3,916.80 | 15/11/2022 | 28/2/2023 | Historic Clapper Bridge Restoration: To repair a historic clapper bridge for its heritage value, and it also provides essential access for the tenant farmer from his fields below to the fell above. |
Mosser Mains Farm, Cockermouth, Cumbria. | £1,700.00 | £1,071.60 | 3/3/2022 | 31/3/2023 | Mosser Mains Farm: Plant Nursery: to enhance and better a young, but established, plant nursery business, which has been running at Mosser Mains Farm, Mosser, since 2020. |
J Black & Son, Millriggs Farm, Kendal, Cumbria. | £4,685.50 | £4,634.50 | 31/10/2022 | 31/12/2023 | Stone wall restoration at Millriggs to reinstate lonning. To rebuild 137m of drystone wall along lonning to create a stock-proof boundary, to enable cattle and sheep to be moved along the lonning easily. |
New Buildings Farm, Millom, Cumbria. | £7,490.00 | £2,996.00 | 17/5/2022 | 31/3/2023 | New Buildings: Pressure washer for New Buildings dirty water and slurry/manure management. This will ultimately reduce costs and improve animal hygiene at the New Buildings mixed farming/poultry unit. |
Hazelrigg Farm, Newby Bridge, Ulverston, Cumbria. | £1,323.00 | £1,323.00 | 13/6/2022 | 30/9/2022 | Hazelrigg Farm: Feasibility & Design: Natural Flood Management and the creation of resilient freshwater habitats at Hazelrigg Farm. |
GL & ME Hutton & Sons, Wallthwaite, Penrith, Cumbria. | £16,858.00 | £16,858.00 | 27/9/2022 | 31/1/2023 | Building Feasibility Study at Wallthwaite: Undertaking initial scoping study to understand the extent of barn restoration works needed on the farmstead at Wallthwaite. This will help to prepare the buildings and enable them to remain in agricultural use. |
Heartwood Enterprises, Rosgill Hall Farm, Penrith, Cumbria. | £27,088.20 | £15,947.77 | 13/12/2022 | 17/3/2023 | Working Ponies and new riparian woodland and hedgerow at Rosgill Hall. |
Barton and Pooley Bridge Parish Council, Cumbria. | £17,811.22 | £17,811.22 | 12/10/2022 | 31/1/2023 | Eamont Way (Penrith to Pooley Bridge)permitted path installation. |
RJ & KR Wilkinson, | £4,961.73 | £4,961.73 | 15/2/2023 | 24/3/2023 | Planting hedgerows to create wildlife corridors and connect existing hedge boundaries. |
IR & OM Wilson, High Beckside, Penrith, Cumbria. | £5,464.40 | £5,464.40 | 27/7/2022 | 31/12/2022 | High Beckside: Traditional building restoration at High Beckside. Restoration of an old byre with a listed building as part of the steading. |
Abbot Park, Ulverston, Cumbria. | £16,683.02 | £16,683.02 | 21/11/2022 | 28/2/2023 | Public Awareness and Communication at Abbot Park: Creating an area for farm visitors to stop and learn about the farm/local area/ wildlife, with benches and interpretation board. Planting fruit trees and fencing off an orchard area adjacent. Hedge laying and gapping up dry stone walls to improve these landscape features, providing 3 land skills training days to undertake these capital works. |
D & NG Robinson, Greenbank Farm, Ambleside, Cumbria. | £28,971.00 | £26,454.41 | 4/8/2022 | 28/2/2023 | Brunt How Stables: Brunt How wildlife corridors and Greenbank Barn restoration. To create more woodland habitats and link them via new hedgerows on the lines of existing field boundaries and tree planting. |
Rawfoot Farm, Penrith, Cumbria. | £7,739.97 | £5,875.99 | 13/10/2022 | 28/2/2023 | Rawfoot: Low carbon farming and food at Rawfoot. |
Town Foot Farm, Penrith, Cumbria. | £17,095.77 | £16,715.77 | 4/4/2022 | 31/3/2023 | Fell Pony Heritage Trust: The establishment of a Fell Pony Heritage Centre - a unique and informative visitor experience putting people in touch with the cultural heritage, landscape and wildlife associated with the Fell Pony in its native surroundings |
Deer & Dexter, | £12,287.23 | £4,914.90 | 20/2/2022 | 31/3/2023 | Old Stoddah Farm: Creation of a pod within the existing traditional barn to provide a hygienic space for the storage of dry goods and packaging. The new room includes facilities for staff and contract butchery customers, including space to pack and process orders. |
Millhouse Field, Wigton, Cumbria. | £36,094.54 | £36,094.54 | 14/12/2022 | 31/3/2023 | Millhouse Field: Claybottom Farm Intake- Habitat creation and connectivity at Millhouse Hay meadow. Planting 542m relic hedgerow boundaries with mixed hedgerow and trees and re-establishing the original kest and dyke system; restoring 152m historic hedgerow line across current field; 152m riparian fencing and wildlife pond. |
Yew Tree Farm, Keswick, Cumbria. | £19,090.56 | £19,027.49 | 16/11/2022 | 28/2/2023 | Edible Hedgerows, Drystone walling and Cattle handling facilities. |
Home Farm, Muncaster, Cumbria. | £5,800.00 | £2,320.00 | 8/6/2022 | 27/8/2022 | Event space diversification: to waterproof one of the farm buildings to better accommodate people when hosting events. |
Stepps Hall, Shap | £6,243.90 | £6,243.90 | 18/11/2022 | 28/2/2023 | Drystone wall boundary restoration, field gate and wildlife boxes. |
West Lakeland Farmer-Led Recovery CIC, Seascale, Cumbria. | £97,559.27 | £97,559.27 | 26/7/2022 | 31/3/2024 | To create a self-sustaining, farmer-led agricultural hub that supports local enterprise and rural businesses to future-proof farming in the uplands. |
Gowbarrow Hall Farm, Watermillock, Penrith, Cumbria. | £328,270.14 | £167,069.50 | 30/9/2022 | 31/3/2024 | Barn restoration and Part Development for Educational Facility. |
Hall Farm, Rusland, Ulverston, Cumbria. | £17,892.15 | £17,123.73 | 13/10/2022 | 20/2/2024 | Nature-friendly farming, Part 2: Veteran tree conservation - 218m hedgerow planting and restoration. SSSI and species-rich grassland management and completion of an orchard creation. |
Bennet Head Farm, Watermillock, Penrith, Cumbria. | £6,080.00 | £6,080.00 | 17/8/2022 | 28/2/2023 | Farming alongside nature creating habitats, restoring landscapes whilst aiding farm business sustainability against climate change. |
Herdwick Sheep Breeders Association, Cumbria | £4,886.60 | £4,886.48 | 25/8/2022 | 31/12/2022 | Agricultural Show Support: Provision of additional equipment for use at agricultural shows. |
Chambers Tenement Farm, Brigsteer, Cumbria. | £4,999.90 | £4,999.90 | 25/10/2022 | 21/2/2023 | South Lakes Curlew Headstarting Project |
West Cumbria Rivers Trust, Keswick. | £233,594.00 | £229,283.00 | 20/9/2022 | 31/3/2024 | WCRT:Thriving Cocker - Phase 2. For Nature and Communities |
Jackson Ground, Broughton-in-Furness, Cumbria | £46,230.00 | £36,672.00 | 23/9/2022 | 31/3/2024 | Restoration of traditional shard boundaries for stock and land management at Jackson Ground. |
Dodgson Wood, Nibthwaite Grange Farm, Ulverston, Cumbria. | £32,875.00 | £13,150.00 | 7/9/2022 | 30/3/2023 | Lake District Tweeds: Phase 2 - Production of 13 distinctive Lake District valley tweeds and throws. |
Burblethwaite Farm, Caldbeck, Cumbria. | £11,130.51 | £11,130.51 | 21/11/2022 | 28/2/2023 | Habitat creation and water quality improvement at Burblethwaite. |
LDNPA, Kendal | £176,000.00 | £176,000.00 | 23/9/2022 | 28/2/2023 | Historic Farm Buildings Reports |
AD & T Harrison, Brotherikeld Farm, Holmrook, Cumbria. | £4,288.00 | £3,430.40 | 6/10/2022 | 31/1/2023 | Traditional Barn Roof repair at Brotherikeld. |
Crosthwaite Oaks, Kendal. | £4,837.50 | £4,837.50 | 6/12/2022 | 31/3/2023 | Habitat creation, water quality improvement by providing support for natural oak regeneration. |
Askhill, Loweswater. Cumbria. | £4,477.54 | £4,477.54 | 15/2/2023 | 31/3/2023 | Fencing and Hedging watercourse. |
Fell Pony Wildness and Conservation, Cumbria | £4,542.00 | £3,769.10 | 3/11/2022 | 31/1/2023 | Fell Pony Wildness and Conservation: Identifying wildness levels and potential strategies to help prevent future extinction tipping points of extensively grazing Fell Pony herds. |
Howside, Ennerdale, Cumbria. | £12,517.16 | £8,927.96 | 21/11/2022 | 28/2/2023 | No Fence collars to improve grazing management for habitats. Pilot scheme. |
Kirkbarrow Hall Ltd., Cumbria | £11,000.00 | £4,996.00 | 18/11/2022 | 28/2/2023 | Adding value to direct selling milk to enhance visitor experience at Kirkbarrow Hall: Landscaping, including planting hedgerow boundary, bench seats and information boards to advertise local grown produce. Plus a coffee vending machine selling home produced pasteurised milk. |
Glencoyne Farm, Glenridding, Cumbria. | £1,913.00 | £1,530.40 | 24/10/2022 | 28/2/2023 | No Fence Collars to improve grazing on Great Mell Fell. |
AP Metcalfe t/a Lakes Landscapes, Crook Hall, Kendal | £4,808.00 | £4,808.00 | 22/11/2022 | 28/2/2023 | Crook Hall Farm: Series of corridor hedges to improve habitat connectivity at Crook Hall Farm. |
Food, Farming and Countryside Commission, Cumbria | £73,767.00 | £58,700.00 | 18/11/2022 | 31/3/2023 | Upland Farmer Toolkit: Full website build, development and testing. |
Pasture for Life Association, CIC Kent. (North West Co-ordinator) | £50,647.30 | £50,647.30 | 5/12/2022 | 31/3/2024 | Pasture and Profit in Protected Landscapes (Lake District) A farmer-to-farmer knowledge exchange project, matching mentors with livestock farmers to encourage high nature-value farming methods, which build farm resilience. |
The Brantwood Trust, | £5,029.53 | £4,991.07 | 2/2/2023 | 24/3/2023 | Experimental crops and heritage crafts at Brantwood |
Norman Farm, Wigton, Cumbria. | £37,459.27 | £37,459.27 | 21/11/2022 | 28/02/2023 | Wildlife Corridors, riparian management and reinstating relic hedgerows at Norman Farm. |
Low Skelgill Farm, Newlands, Cumbria. | £26,154.32 | £26,154.32 | 1/12/2022 | 28/2/2023 | Low Skelgill Farm: Permissive path and riparian exclusion zone creation plus a footpath hedge boundary. |
High Drybarrows, Penrith, Cumbria. | £779.00 | £632.20 | 31/1/2023 | 24/3/2023 | Drone for helping gather common. |
LDNPA, Kendal | £4,999.00 | £4,905.00 | 25/1/2023 | 24/3/2023 | LDNPA: World Heritage brand farming marketing advisor. |
Whinpot Farm, Kendal, Cumbria. | £2,290.00 | £1,832.00 | 25/1/2023 | 24/3/2023 | Purchase of a low impact bale trailer for habitat restoration. |
FJ & M Mattinson & Sons, Rosewain Farm, Wigton, Cumbria. | £5,000.00 | £4,000.00 | 2/3/2023 | 24/3/2023 | Rosewain Farm: Improving carbon sequestration of land and reducing water run-off, of land near Isel. |
Nook Farm, Keswick, Cumbria. | £5,390.76 | £4,914.76 | 20/2/2023 | 24/3/2023 | Solar pump for water quality improvement of Stonethwaite Beck. |
Messrs. Hodgson, Rydal Farm, Ambleside, Cumbria. | £3,500.00 | £2,800.00 | 10/3/2023 | 31/3/2023 | Heritage project restoring ha-ha walls. |
Robinson Place, Great Langdale, Cumbria. | £1,350.00 | £1,350.00 | 21/3/2023 | 31/3/2023 | Traditional dry stonewalling course |
Claybottom Farm, Wigton, Cumbria. | £4,120.72 | £4,120.72 | 30/3/2023 | 31/3/2023 | Intake field division: Double sheep fencing to protect a recently restored kest and dyke system that will be planted as a hedgerow , complete with hedgerow trees later this year. This along with a short stretch of single fencing along an existing adjacent watercourse will act as a barrier to sub-divide the intake field and allow for rotational conservation grazing by Fell Ponies. |
Curlew Recovery South Lakes | £4899.95 | £4,899.95 | 31/03/2023 | 31/03/2023 | Telescope, tripod and thermal scope to aid curlew survey. |
