Demonstrating Farming in Protected Landscape Projects

Business name (name of lead applicant)

Town

FiPL grant awarded

Total Project Cost

Project start date

Project end date

Project description

Willoughby Farms Ltd

Alford

£6,834

£17,085

1st February 2022

31st March 2022

Further enhance the enjoyment of riders and carriage drivers using Well Vale Country Ride, and to increase the number of users and the frequency of use by providing additional parking, a new water crossing and alternative routes, along with enhanced signage including interpretive signs.

J Wharton (Agriculture) Ltd

Swaby

£9,916

£25,186

1st February 2022

30th April 2022

Purchase of Drone and associated hardware/software for variable rate nitrogen application

Ashfield Farmed Environment Services Ltd

Newark

£18,496

£23,120

1st June 2022

31st March 2024

Build on the successes of the Lincs Wolds Facilitation Fund Group by offering more targeted advice to farmer members and enable them to utilise the training received so far in improved agri-environment delivery and in meeting the objectives of the Lincolnshire Wolds AONB Priorities.

Wold Newton Farms

Wold Newton

£45,146

£45,146

1st August 2022

31st March 2024

Provide all-terrain vehicles to enable access to the Wold Newton Farm area for people with limited mobility, address barriers to public participation in the local landscape, promote the project to the local community and support them to welcome and nurture new visitor opportunities

J G Fisher Ltd

Hatcliffe

£4,466

£4,466

1st April 2022

31st March 2024

Successfully grow and harvest Companion Crops alongside Cash Crops to give diversity of arable cropping and promote soil health and regenerative agricultural practices.  The project will use “knife blockers” for the combine harvester which are unique specialist attachments allowing the harvesting of cash crops without damaging the companion crops grown alongside.

The Country Trust

Claxby

£9,645

£9,645

1st May 2022

30th November 2023

Educational farm visits for disadvantaged children with The Country Trust to provide inspiring, hands-on day visits to Claxby Grange Farm for children from disadvantaged communities from North East Lincolnshire.

Mrs J Wilson

Welton le Marsh

£17,556

£21,945

1st October 2022

1st December 2023

The project will tie the smallholding together, to allow a working smallholding of sheep, rare breed wool processing, tourist holiday accommodation, nature and wildlife enhancement and education in one project, on the smallholding.

Dyson Farming Ltd

Tathwell/Scamblesby

£37,150

£46,438

1st December 2022

1st March 2023

Linking corridors through the landscape over 3 separate holdings by management of existing features and establishing new features to link to habitat wider than the 3 holdings.

Langton (Spilsby) Farms

Langton near Spilsby

£2,565

£2,850

1st December 2022

31st January 2023

Commission a detailed design for Natural Flood Management features of a wider project.  Once a design has been confirmed, the second and final stage would be the main works which, in order to have optimal ground conditions would take place in summer 2023.

Mr John Casswell

Belchford

£33,900

£67,800

1st April 2023

31st October 2023

Provision of indoor housing for rare breed livestock, with restoration and customisation of an existing outbuilding to provide living space and pens at Flintwood Farm.

Alternative Direct Marketing Ltd

(Chalk Spring Farm)

Scamblesby

£4,410

£4,900

20th January 2023

1st March 2023

Design Work for Habitat Creation and Water Quality Improvement at Chalk Spring Farm

H R Hudson

Haugham

£46,050

£55,260

1st March 2023

31st December 2023

Habitat creation and pond maintenance at Haugham Pastures

Alternative Direct Marketing Ltd

(Chalk Spring Farm)

Scamblesby

£3,425 (total - £7,835)

£3,425 (total - £8,325

13th Feb 2023

30th August 2023

Variation of existing scheme to include exhumation of, and research on, archaeology discovered during work

Langton (Spilsby) Farms

Langton near Spilsby

£13,210

£14,678

15th May 2023

30th June 2023

The digging-out and header wall repair of the two ponds previously used to create a water supply and ram-pump head of water for the demolished Langton Hall, and the addition of leaky barriers to assist with natural flood management in the water catchment

John Oliver and Sons

Partney

£4304

£4304

1st July 2023

31st December 2023

Wildlife pond creation at Skendleby Holme Farm

G & B Dobson Ltd

South Elkington

£5,172

£23,249

1st April 2023

15th June 2023

Re-establishing a Village Shop in the heart of South Elkington village – External Works

G & B Dobson Ltd

South Elkington

£3,381

£23,249

1st April 2023

23rd June 2023

Re-establishing a Village Shop in the heart of South Elkington village – Internal Works

Mr John Casswell

Belchford

£33,247.50

£66,495

14th August 2023

14th November 2023

Creation of a large lake to provide habitat for wildlife including areas of wetland for wading birds and aquatic environment for rare species

DAD Home Farm

Langton near Spilsby

£5,842

£5,842

4th December 2023

31st March 2025

Creation of lowland woodland pasture in an existing grassland field in order to enhance the field’s climate resilience for grazing animals, the local ecology and the landscape

Binbrook Hill Farm

Binbrook

£1,860

£3,101

30th August 2023

30th August 2023

Removal of silt from conically-shaped pond to restore wetland habitat

Greater Lincolnshire Nature Partnership

Across the National Landscape and Coastal Marsh

£44,350

£58,060

1st November 2023

31st March 2025

Delivering habitat improvement and the conditions for water vole recovery by removing invasive American mink from the chalk streams arising in the Wolds AONB, and the associated watercourses in the adjacent coastal plain, and removing any that immigrate from the north or west

Dyson Farming Ltd

Tathwell/Scamblesby

£24,422

£30,422

2nd January 2024

1st March 2024

Creating habitat within the chalk stream and enhancing the surrounding flora increasing the species diversity of the immediate area; slowing the flow to improve water quality and provide water recharge to the groundwater

Langton (Spilsby) Farms

Langton near Spilsby

£15,058

£15,058

1st January 2024

31st March 2025

Creation of lowland woodland pasture in an existing grassland field in order to enhance the field’s climate resilience for grazing animals, the local ecology; and the landscape

Linkage Community Trust

Sixhills

£47,500

£50,076

8th January 2024

31st March 2024

A viability assessment of the proposed conversion of a derelict historic building into holiday accommodation for people with disabilities, including learning disabilities, autism or both

John Edwards, Beverley Edwards and Sophie Abel

Benniworth

£2,400

£3,000

2nd February 2024

31st March 2024

Design work for pond restoration at Glebe Farm, Benniworth

G & B Dobson ltd

South Elkington

£2,626

£6,467

2nd January 2024

31st March 2024

The Shop – creating an outside space for all that visit the shop to enjoy

The Country Trust

Claxby

£10,331

£10,331

2nd January 2024

31st March 2025

Educational farm visits for disadvantaged children with The Country Trust, working with a farmer in the AONB to provide 12 inspiring, hands-on day visits to for children (and, in some cases their families too) from disadvantaged communities in and around the AONB.