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Business Name, Town Total Project Value Grant Awarded Project Start Date Project End Date Project Description
Business Name, Town

Gowbarrow Hall, Watermillock

Total Project Value

£7,880.50

Grant Awarded

£3,152.20

Project Start Date

01/10/21

Project End Date

31/03/22

Project Description

Feasibility study for barn restoration and part development for educational facility

Business Name, Town

Uni. of Cumbria, Ambleside

Total Project Value

£25,363.44

Grant Awarded

£17,113.44

Project Start Date

01/10/21

Project End Date

31/03/22

Project Description

Valuing our Cultural Landscape – creating resources informing and promoting the contribution Lake District farming cultural heritage can make to nature and climate action

Business Name, Town

West Lakes Farmer Led Nature Recovery Community Interest Company, Seascale

Total Project Value

£49,500.00

Grant Awarded

£47,500.00

Project Start Date

01/10/21

Project End Date

Ongoing

Project Description

CIC development, farmer engagement, and public goods data collation

Business Name, Town

Nibthwaite Grange Farm, Ulverston

Total Project Value

£93,936.00

Grant Awarded

£60,629.00

Project Start Date

15/10/21

Project End Date

31/03/22

Project Description

Regenerative farming diversification, Lake District valley tweed production, and people engagement

Business Name, Town

Racy Ghyll Farm, Penrith

Total Project Value

£41,237.00

Grant Awarded

£40,337.00

Project Start Date

01/12/21

Project End Date

31/03/22

Project Description

Hedge and wildlife corridor creation to facilitate regenerative farming, and educational visits provision

Business Name, Town

Hall Farm, Ulverston

Total Project Value

£50,654.44

Grant Awarded

£50,131.52

Project Start Date

01/11/21

Project End Date

31/03/22

Project Description

Regenerative farming transition, fencing, hedging, tree planting

Business Name, Town

Gatesgarth Farm, Cockermouth

Total Project Value

£2,368.80

Grant Awarded

£2,368.80

Project Start Date

01/10/21

Project End Date

31/03/22

Project Description

Drystone wall restoration

Business Name, Town

Witherslack Estate, Witherslack

Total Project Value

£9,250.00

Grant Awarded

£8,880.00

Project Start Date

01/11/21

Project End Date

31/03/22

Project Description

Small scale haymaking equipment for orchard management and local use in other small sites

Business Name, Town

West Cumbria Rivers Trust Ltd, Keswick

Total Project Value

£27,247.00

Grant Awarded

£20,827.00

Project Start Date

01/11/21

Project End Date

31/03/22

Project Description

Developing a pipeline of conservation works with farmers to deliver benefits for nature recovery, water quality, flood/drought resilience and carbon storage

Business Name, Town

Low Sizergh Farm, Kendal

Total Project Value

£2,660.00

Grant Awarded

£2,660.00

Project Start Date

01/11/21

Project End Date

31/03/22

Project Description

Farm Trail enhancements for public users

Business Name, Town

Ullswater Catchment CIC

Total Project Value

£32,912.40

Grant Awarded

£26,947.36

Project Start Date

01/11/21

Project End Date

Ongoing

Project Description

Creation of wildlife corridors, involving volunteer tree planting, plus rush management equipment for shared use across multiple farms

Business Name, Town

Lowe Farm, Ambleside

Total Project Value

£4,560.00

Grant Awarded

£3,760.00

Project Start Date

01/10/21

Project End Date

31/03/22

Project Description

Traditional hedge laying

Business Name, Town

Fell Pony Heritage Trust, Penrith

Total Project Value

£4,476.00

Grant Awarded

£4,476.00

Project Start Date

01/10/21

Project End Date

31/03/22

Project Description

Development of public engagement through website, social media, and newsletter development

Business Name, Town

Ernest Cook Trust, Low Beckside, Martindale

Total Project Value

£104,719.48

Grant Awarded

£63,619.48

Project Start Date

01/10/21

Project End Date

Ongoing

Project Description

Support for development of land-based learning at Low Beckside Farm including building repair feasibility study, environmental works, and land-based skills training

Business Name, Town

Monk Foss Farm, Millom

Total Project Value

£62,950.00

Grant Awarded

£25,180.00

Project Start Date

01/12/21

Project End Date

31/03/22

Project Description

carbon and emission reductions through enhanced slurry management

Business Name, Town

Harry Place Farm, Ambleside

Total Project Value

£77,916.86

Grant Awarded

£31,166.74

Project Start Date

01/09/21

Project End Date

31/03/22

Project Description

Enhancement of farm visitor stays and engagement with farming and nature

Business Name, Town

Church Stile Farm, Nether Wasdale

Total Project Value

£33,336.96

Grant Awarded

£19,080.96

Project Start Date

01/11/21

Project End Date

31/03/22

Project Description

Creation and production of local food label to champion local products, plus packing and storage. Hedgerow restoration

Business Name, Town

Robinson Place Farm, Ambleside

Total Project Value

£7,743.00

Grant Awarded

£7,743.00

Project Start Date

01/11/21

Project End Date

31/03/22

Project Description

Establishment and delivery of a volunteering programme of farm, nature, and garden activities with focus on mental health and wellbeing benefits.

Business Name, Town

Cragg Farm, New Hutton

Total Project Value

£57,239.66

Grant Awarded

£45,791.73

Project Start Date

01/01/22

Project End Date

31/03/22

Project Description

Re-roofing and other repairs to historic traditional threshing barn to conserve it for continued agricultural use.

Business Name, Town

Crosbythwaite Farm, Broughton in Furness

Total Project Value

£18,098.15

Grant Awarded

£7,239.26

Project Start Date

01/12/21

Project End Date

31/03/22

Project Description

Expansion of farm-based traditional bakery and visitor engagement with farm and local landscape

Business Name, Town

Fairbank Farm, Kendal

Total Project Value

£2,500.00

Grant Awarded

£2,500.00

Project Start Date

27/01/22

Project End Date

31/03/22

Project Description

Completion of a farm carbon audit, report, and carbon management plan, plus advice

Business Name, Town

Friends of the Lake District – High Borrowdale

Total Project Value

£15,746.15

Grant Awarded

£11,928.15

Project Start Date

01/12/21

Project End Date

31/03/22

Project Description

Hedge planting, hay meadow species enhancement, and involving volunteers.

Business Name, Town

Esps Farm, Cockermouth

Total Project Value

£32,387.90

Grant Awarded

£18,334.53

Project Start Date

01/10/21

Project End Date

31/03/22

Project Description

Protecting traditional drystone walls, improving livestock water access and livestock exclusion from watercourses, hedgerow planting and protection, bird boxes, equipment to enable reducing farming carbon footprint.

Business Name, Town

High Chambers Tenement , Lyth Valley

Total Project Value

£4,495

Grant Awarded

£4,495

Project Start Date

21/03/22

Project End Date

Ongoing

Project Description

Lyth Valley Curlew Recovery Project – Breeding curlew monitoring and protection equipment and activity involving community volunteers and farmers

Business Name, Town

Herdwick Breeders Association

Total Project Value

£18,230.60

Grant Awarded

£18,230.60

Project Start Date

03/10/21

Project End Date

31/03/22

Project Description

Mobile Satellite Broadband System for use at local farming and rural community events, sustaining their cultural heritage.

Business Name, Town

Lowther, Penrith

Total Project Value

£4,000.00

Grant Awarded

£3,200.00

Project Start Date

04/02/22

Project End Date

31/03/22

Project Description

Feasibility Study into deer management and marketing issues and opportunities across the Lake District National Park.

Business Name, Town

LDNPA, Kendal

Total Project Value

£38,423.28

Grant Awarded

£33,425.88

Project Start Date

01/12/21

Project End Date

Ongoing

Project Description

Pilot study in two Lake District valleys of archaeological and built heritage features illustrating the continued tradition of hill farming including farmer engagement on potential future management and scheme opportunities of features

Business Name, Town

Home Farm, Muncaster

Total Project Value

£2,500.00

Grant Awarded

£2,500.00

Project Start Date

31/01/22

Project End Date

31/03/22

Project Description

Completion of a farm carbon audit, report, and carbon management plan, plus advice

Business Name, Town

Flodder Hall, Lyth Valley

Total Project Value

£2,500.00

Grant Awarded

£2,500.00

Project Start Date

01/02/22

Project End Date

31/03/22

Project Description

Completion of a farm carbon audit, report, and carbon management plan, plus advice