Across Cheshire and Merseyside, the areas supported by Mersey Forest Team, there is growing interest from landowners in establishing new woodland on less productive areas of land. These new woodlands offer attractive benefits, lock up carbon, enhance wildlife and can be supported financially through our flexible grant programme.
This new platform enables simple access to funds, expertise and support to enable you to plan and establish new woods and hedgerows so that they fit within your evolving business plans. Government has confirmed that no land owner will be worse off if they move now to plant woodland, taking away the risk of higher grants and support in future causing you to delay action.
NatureBid is a simple online tool, on which you can bid for funding to deliver a selection of measures on your farm. It will allow you to select locations on your land in which you wish to implement these measures, and will allow you to bid an amount you could provide them for. The most competitive bids will receive funding from XXX.
You can bid for funding these measures:
