AC3: Install and maintain signageÌý
Find out about eligibility and requirements for the install and maintain signage item.Ìý
This item is part of Capital Grants 2025. You must read theÌýCapital Grants 2025 guidanceÌýto understand the rules and how to apply.
If you’re applying for this item as part of a Countryside Stewardship Higher Tier (CSHT) application, you must read theÌýCSHTÌýapplicant’s guideÌýto understand the rules and how to apply.
How much you’ll be paid Ìý
£55.65 per signÌý
How this item benefits the environmentÌý
Encouraging positive visitor behaviour helps manage, protect and enhance environmental features.Ìý
Where you can use this item Ìý
You can use this item on sites with public access to:Ìý
- discourage damaging activityÌý
- encourage positive visitor behaviourÌý
- explain the environmental features of the site Ìý
You can also use it alongside:Ìý
- Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) action WBD1: Manage PondsÌý
- in a Countryside Stewardship Higher Tier application alongside management actions (with the agreement of your Natural England adviser)Ìý
You can also use it with these capital items:Ìý
You cannot use this item on any historic or archaeological features identified on your without written approval from Historic England on:ÌýÌý
- scheduled monumentsÌýÌý
- registered parks and gardensÌýÌý
- registered battlefields Ìý
You must not use this item on Selected Heritage Inventory for Natural England (SHINE) sites without written approval from your local authority historic environment adviser.Ìý
What you must do to use this itemÌý
Near ponds and lakes, you must put up signs which discourage people from feeding wildfowl and are appropriate for the site, for example in areas with high visitor footfall or public access. Ìý
In all areas, you must put up signs that encourage positive visitor behaviour such as:Ìý
- not feeding wildfowlÌý
- keeping to pathsÌý
- keeping dogs under controlÌý
You cannot use this item on land in a Sustainable Farming Incentive or Countryside Stewardship Higher Tier permissive access action.Ìý
Evidence you must keep Ìý
You must keep photographs of the completed works and provide them with your claim.Ìý
You must also keep and provide on request:Ìý
- receipted invoices or a bank statement where receipted invoices are not availableÌýÌý
- photographs of the completed works Ìý
- a map showing the proposed location of the signsÌý
Read the record keeping and site visit requirements in theÌýAgreement holder’s guide: Capital Grants, Higher Tier capital grants and Protection and Infrastructure grantsÌýfor more information.
If you’re applying for this item as part of a Countryside Stewardship Higher Tier (CSHT) application, read the record keeping and site visit requirements in the CSHT agreement holder’s guide.
Advice to help you use this itemÌý
The following advice may help you to use this item, but you do not have to follow it to get paid. It’s not part of this item’s requirements.   Ìý
You can use standard wording for the signage such as:Ìý
- ‘Please do not feed the ducks’Ìý
- ‘Please keep to the path (sensitive habitat)’Ìý
- ‘Please keep dogs under control (nesting birds)’