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Find out when and how to apply for CSHT funding and how to manage your agreement.
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Find out how to create a woodland management plan for grant and felling licence applications. This will help you plan and develop a sustainable woodland.
Read the guidance to help you claim payment for Countryside Stewardship agreements that started before 2025, and for capital items.
Agreements for management grants and capital items to protect and enhance the natural environment.
Information for agreement holders about transferring all or part of a Countryside Stewardship agreement to another person.
What to do if a customer registered with the Rural Payments service dies.
Find out which SFI or CS Higher Tier management actions, or capital items are eligible to use on land that’s conditionally exempt from Inheritance Tax.
Check which trees are eligible under the Environmental Land Management (ELM) agroforestry action.
Cross compliance ended on 31 December 2023. If you are a farmer or land manager, find out what this means for you.
Find out about grants and other funding support for agroforestry on your farmland.
Higher Tier agreements for multi-year management options and one-off capital items to protect, restore or enhance the environment.
Countryside Stewardship agreement holders must follow these terms and conditions if they applied for an agreement after 5 January 2023.
How to complete a capital claim if you're a Countryside Stewardship (CS) agreement holder and unable to submit a claim online.
What individuals or organisations need to know when they become a facilitator, and how to manage the Grant Funding Agreement (GFA).
Changes to Countryside Stewardship capital payment rates from January 2023.
Read about the rules Countryside Stewardship (CS) agreement holders must continue to meet following the end of cross compliance.
Changes to Countryside Stewardship revenue payment rates from January 2024.
Scheme rules for holders of agreements that started on 1 January 2021
Find out about extensions for CS Mid Tier agreements due to end in December 2025.
Information for agreement holders about ending a Countryside Stewardship agreement.
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