Hi, I’m Stuart and I’m a Team Leader within the Countryside Stewardship scheme based at Carlisle. I’ve been with RPA for 27 years. I manage the team that makes payments to customers under the Countryside Stewardship Revenue Scheme. My team …
RPA is proudly supporting the Farm24 campaign. Through our interactions with our customers, stakeholders and rural communities, we’ve seen first hand how hard farmers in England work and the value they add to our lives. Farm24 shows the public …
Welcome to the third episode of The RPA Podcast. In our latest episode, Daneka Rodgers, Senior Business Analyst at the RPA, explains why it’s crucial to keep your personal information up to date in the Rural Payments Service and offers …
Executive Summary Updating your personal and business details, and setting permissions in the Rural Payments Service It’s vital RPA hold the correct personal and business information for farmers and land managers all year round - taking a few minutes …
Hi, I’m Simon and I’m an Operational Mapping Query Team Leader with RPA based at the Reading Office. I joined RPA 15 years ago straight from studying Geography at university and I’ve worked in mapping ever since. If a customer …
Recognising the cashflow challenges faced by many farmers as a result of worldwide cost pressures and market instability, the Secretary of State announced on 6 May that BPS payments would be brought forward RPA were asked to make this change …
RPA is supporting Farm Safety Week run by the Farm Safety Foundation – or Yellow Wellies as they’re known. Farm Safety Week, starting on 18 July, is the ten-year anniversary of the campaign, which brings together five countries over five …
Hi, I’m Andrew. I’m part of the Countryside Stewardship (CS) Applications Higher Tier team and I’m based in Nottingham. I’ve been with RPA just over a year now and have worked on Higher Tier since last September. Primarily I work …
Hi, my name is Rachel and I’ve worked for the Rural Payments Agency (RPA), previously Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (MAFF) since June 1998. I’m based at the Exeter office. I currently work within the Basic Payments Scheme …
In the second episode of The RPA Podcast Rozanne Kidd, RPA Director, talked about the Countryside Stewardship Mid Tier scheme. In this blog, we respond to the most frequently asked questions we get about Countryside Stewardship Mid Tier and Higher …