In the first of a series of blogs from the Rural Payments Agency’s Customer Directorate, we feature video interviews with some of the key people whose roles are focussed on delivering and improving the services provided to customers. In the …
RPA’s Grants Service team have been attending numerous shows across the country this year, with more to come. They are encouraging farmers and businesses to meet them at the RPA stand to get advice on the grants available. In this …
RPA has now published its Annual Report and Accounts for 2023-24 which tells our story, outlines the objectives we've achieved and the challenges we've faced. It can be accessed here Rural Payments Agency Annual Report and Accounts 2023-24 The report …
RPA offers a range of grants and rural payments to farmers and businesses. In this blog, Steve France from the Grants Service team writes about his work attending shows as an RPA Ambassador. The Ambassadors represent RPA by engaging with …
RPA offers a wide range of grants and rural payments to farmers and businesses. In this blog, Georgina Ling from the Grants Service team writes about her visit to Cowsden Bank Farm in Worcestershire, to understand their experience of applying …
RPA is supporting Farm Safety Week run by the Farm Safety Foundation – or Yellow Wellies as they’re known. Farm Safety Week, starting on 22 July, is the ten-year anniversary of the campaign, which brings together more than 400 partners …
RPA offers a wide range of grants and rural payments to farmers and businesses. In this blog, Robert from the Grants Service team writes about RPA’s Agency Management Board visit to Bearwardcote Farm in Derbyshire talking to the farmers about …
Applications are now being taken for a new grant for hen housing, which is available to laying hen and pullet farmers in England with flocks of 1,000 birds or more. This grant can be used to part fund two different …
New support to tackle endemic diseases for keepers of beef cattle, pigs and sheep is now available as part of the Animal Health and Welfare Pathway. This support is not yet available to keepers of dairy cattle. The availability will …
George from RPA’s Grants Service team talks about the two-day training course he attended at the Allerton Project in Leicestershire. The Allerton Project is a 320 hectare demonstration farm which researches the effects of different farming methods on wildlife and the …