Since its launch in 2015 the Countryside Stewardship Facilitation Fund has enabled ninety-eight groups of farmers and land managers to develop shared plans, coordinate action to improve land quality, and help restore wildlife and natural systems for all our benefit. At the heart of the initiative is the transformational approach based on cooperation across holdings, addressing evidence-based environmental priorities, helping overcome isolation, depression, fragmentation and upskilling farmers and land managers. Additional groups starting in January 2020 will mean over 140 groups with up to 4,000 farmers and land managers are engaged in this dynamic new approach to up-skilling and driving positive action for the challenges ahead.

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