Planting

Various grants and funding measures are in place to stimulate the market for bioenergy. The main ones are listed below, with links to further information:

Energy Crops Scheme

 

The Energy Crops Scheme provides establishment grants for short rotation coppice and miscanthus, and also aids short rotation coppice growers to set up producer groups. Applicants need to demonstrate that they have ot will have an energy end-use for the crops.

www.naturalengland.org.uk/planning/grants-funding/energy-crops/default.htm

English Woodland Grant Scheme

 

The English Woodland Grant Scheme is the Forestry Comissions suite of grants designed to replace the Woodland Grant Scheme. Grants include:

·         Woodland Planning

·         Assessment

·         Regeneration

·         Management and Improvement

·         Woodland Creation Grant

www.forestry.gov.uk/forestry/INFD-6DCCEN

The Green Grants Machine

 

The Green Grants Machine website is a useful place to search for funding and grants available locally and nationally.

www.greengrantsmachine.co.uk

 

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