These include some of the best radio systems on the market from market leading brands such as Icom and Motorola. We offer vehicle tracking solutions, vehicle cameras (internal and external) and personal safety solutions for things like lone workers as well as Alarm systems for home and business premises.
The new Farming investment fund provides grants towards the cost of equipment and technology to improve the productivity of farms in a sustainable way. It has two options; the Farming Equipment and Technology Fund (FETF) which is for smaller grants and the Farming Transformation Fund (FTF) for larger investments. For the FETF the minimum grant value is £2000 and the maximum is £25,000. The total funding pot available is £27m so whilst this headline figure sounds a lot, in reality this does not give a huge proportion of farmers a chance of success with their grant applications.
Farmers can apply for up to £50,000 over the lifetime of the scheme (£25k on each round if they are successful across 2 funding rounds) The deadline for applying to the Farming Equipment and Technology Fund is 7 January 2022.
The Farming Transformation fund opens up a much bigger potential pot of money. For each project, the minimum grant available is £35,000 and the maximum grant is £500,000. Grants cover up to 40% of the eligible costs of a project. For the Farming Transformation Fund there will be an online eligibility checker, with projects that score highly enough against the scheme’s objectives invited to make a full application. The initial deadline for this is 12 January 2022 and the deadline to complete applications is 30 June 2022.
If you need help scoping a technical solution or would like a general chat about what some of our other customers have done or are currently in the process of doing then please give us a call on 01582 383 280 or email Info@Countrifi.co.uk
For funding related enquires please contact the Rural Payments Agency:
Email FETFEnquiries@rpa.gov.uk or call the RPA helpline on 0300 020 0301 and select the option for the Farming Equipment and Technology Fund.
