FiPL transparency of funding – 2021 to 2026
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Funding transparency record for the Farming in Protected Landscapes programme in the New Forest National Park. It lists individual grants awarded from late 2021 to March 2026, showing recipient business name and location, grant value, total project cost, start and end dates, and a short project description. Supported projects focus on practical farm and land management improvements, including hedgerow planting and restoration, fencing and livestock handling equipment, soil and nutrient management, water storage and rainwater harvesting, habitat creation and monitoring (including drones and wildlife surveys), and education and community projects. Awards range from small equipment purchases to large multi-part landscape and wildlife initiatives across multiple sites, aiming to improve biodiversity, water and soil quality, animal welfare, and sustainable farming in the protected landscape.
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Farming in Protected Landscapes
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| Business name | Town | FiPL grant awarded | Total Project Cost | Project start date | Project end date | Project description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| T Gould | Bransgore | £1,532 | £4,795 | 25/03/2026 | 25/03/2026 | LU11000 Professional Game Fridge |
| D Hickman | Copythorne | £2,266 | £5,580 | 25/03/2026 | 25/03/2026 | Frontoni MRD disc hedge cutter attachment |
| T Woodley | Frogham | £4,366 | £5,239 | 25/03/2026 | 25/03/2026 | 6-metre hydraulic folding grass harrow |
| Testwood | Totton | £7,850 | £9,420 | 19/03/2026 | 31/03/2026 | Power harrow HIWWT |
| Countryside Education Trust | Beaulieu | £28,680 | £33,183 | 12/03/2026 | 31/03/2026 | Educational enterprise to continue legacy of education and access to NF & farming |
| C Sampson | Fordingbridge | £2,619 | £5,406 | 10/03/2026 | 31/03/2026 | Cattle hurdles to facilitate the construction of a bull pen |
| NFLAS | Various sites | £22,326 | £29,188 | 10/03/2026 | 31/03/2026 | Water storage tanks with 2-way filters and associated stop taps for farmers, commoners, and growers in the New Forest |
| Tilefield | Brockenhurst | £9,999 | £17,919 | 20/01/2026 | 31/03/2026 | Re-establish a native hedgerow corridor |
| Powdermills | Fritham | £5,440 | £5,714 | 07/01/2026 | 31/03/2026 | Stock-proof fencing, gates, resurfacing, hedgerow |
| M Ferrett | Lockerley | £1,295 | £1,554 | 07/01/2026 | 31/03/2026 | Hurdles to move livestock safely |
| NFLAS | Various sites | £17,760 | £21,312 | 18/12/2025 | 31/03/2026 | Native hedgerow whips and protective guards for New Forest commoners |
| K Harrison | Bramshaw | £3,960 | £8,640 | 01/12/2025 | 31/03/2026 | Marshall MS60 s organic manure spreader |
| 3D Farming | Beaulieu | £26,000 | £78,000 | 01/12/2025 | 01/02/2026 | Strip till cultivator |
| Business name | Town | FiPL grant awarded | Total Project Cost | Project start date | Project end date | Project description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| J Totty | Hyde | £4,721 | £74,130 | 20/10/2025 | 31/03/2026 | Sustainable nutrients, Restoring hedgerows, Biodiversity and conservation grazing, Runoff reduction and water conservation |
| Sowley Estate | Sowley | £33,244 | £51,144 | 20/10/2025 | 31/03/2026 | Biostar rotary hoe and cover crop seeder |
| Shirley farm | Bransgore | £6,230 | £6,230 | 22/08/2025 | 01/09/2025 | Fencing |
| Beaulieu Estate | Beaulieu | £9,702 | £17,210 | 22/08/2025 | 22/10/2025 | Clearance of dead brush, trees and vegetation using mulching flail head and tree shear |
| A Parry Norton | Cadnam | £3,197 | £4,796 | 03/06/2025 | 03/07/2025 | Feed fence for cattle welfare and safety of handlers |
| Brockenhurst Park | Brockenhurst | £9,276 | £11,595 | 16/05/2025 | 31/03/2026 | Shredder to produce a composted mulch |
| Humphreys & Suter | Woodlands | £1,242 | £1,552 | 27/03/2025 | 31/03/2025 | Durable stable mats and grass mats |
| A Rolf | Beaulieu | £7,200 | £8,640 | 21/03/2025 | 31/03/2025 | Flail mower to improve management of SSSI |
| S Loades | Newbridge | £13,386 | £15,750 | 21/03/2025 | 31/03/2025 | No Fence Collars for native cattle to help manage SSSI nature reserve |
| O Cook | Brockenhurst | £25,515 | £42,515 | 05/03/2025 | 31/03/2025 | Stock netting and barbed wire |
| Beaulieu Estate | Beaulieu | £9,985 | £12,906 | 03/02/2025 | 31/03/2025 | Planting hedgerow, fencing and plant guards |
| Business name | Town | FiPL grant awarded | Total Project Cost | Project start date | Project end date | Project description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GWCT | Fordingbridge | £8,998 | £8,998 | 06/01/2025 | 31/03/2025 | Bespoke equipment to monitor and protect breeding wader nests in the Avon Valley and surrounding habitat |
| GWCT | Fordingbridge | £17,720 | £31,210 | 06/01/2025 | 31/03/2025 | Purchase of drone, software, training and data for survey work |
| T Gould | Bransgore | £7,996 | £9,995 | 04/01/2025 | 31/03/2025 | Harrows to rejuvenate existing leys, establish new leys and traditional cultivation |
| K & S Crouch | Ellingham | £3,024 | £3,780 | 10/11/2024 | 31/03/2025 | Hurdles to move livestock safely |
| Countryside Education Trust | Beaulieu | £46,907 | £61,274 | 20/10/2024 | 31/03/2025 | Make educational enterprise self-sufficient, deliver landscape enhancements for nature, demo nature & climate friendly farming to visitors, continue legacy of education and access to NF & farming |
| D Parsons | Various | £4,939 | £9,425 | 10/10/2024 | 31/03/2025 | Establish if supply chain for wild venison could be improved by becoming a broker |
| C Williamson | Boldre | £28,937 | £31,716 | 01/10/2024 | 31/03/2025 | Establish a wildlife rich habitat |
| I Manston | Blackfield | £9,365 | £9,365 | 01/09/2024 | 31/03/2025 | Hedging alongside native trees, improve grassland, fencing |
| C Sampson | Fordingbridge | £4,102 | £5,127 | 01/08/2024 | 31/12/2024 | Muck spreader to reduce artificial inputs |
| Ogdens Orchard Group | New Town | £1,939 | £1,939 | 16/07/2024 | 31/12/2024 | Apple mill and press |
| R Manley | Newbridge | £2,556 | £3,195 | 17/06/2024 | 31/07/2024 | Forks and hurdles |
| Business name | Town | FiPL grant awarded | Total Project Cost | Project start date | Project end date | Project description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| T & D Loades | Newbridge | £10,956 | £15,775 | 15/06/2024 | 31/10/2024 | Hedge, fence and gates |
| M Boxall / Southern Cluster Group | Various sites | £9,526 | £9,526 | 01/06/2024 | 31/03/2025 | Assessment of areas suitable for habitat creation using cameras |
| NFLAS | Various sites | £44,550 | £44,550 | 27/03/2024 | 31/03/2025 | Reducing demand on local water resources |
| S Loades | Bartley | £1,250 | £1,500 | 25/03/2024 | 31/03/2024 | Hurdles to move livestock safely |
| A Parry Norton | Cadnam | £1,250 | £1,500 | 25/03/2024 | 31/03/2024 | Hurdles to move livestock safely |
| E Hickman | Newbridge | £6,009 | £7,189 | 20/03/2024 | 31/03/2024 | Muck spreader to improve soil organic matter |
| D Loades | Bramshaw | £1,700 | £2,040 | 19/03/2024 | 31/03/2024 | Harrow to manage semi natural grasslands / hay meadow on back up grazing |
| GWCT | Fordingbridge | £6,770 | £8,059 | 15/03/2024 | 29/03/2024 | Bespoke equipment to monitor and remove American Mink |
| C Dieck | Nomansland | £19,793 | £48,790 | 23/02/2024 | 31/03/2025 | Radio tracking of Bechstein’s Bats, surveys and radio telemetry |
| N Stallard | Lower Burgate | £1,929 | £4,823 | 15/02/2024 | 31/03/2024 | Solar electric fencing for management of water meadows and cattle crush |
| R Manley | Newbridge | £4,320 | £5,400 | 15/02/2024 | 31/03/2024 | Portable cattle handling equipment |
| S Kempe | Boldre | £11,675 | £8,580 | 01/11/2023 | 20/01/2024 | Creation of a hard standing manure store |
| O Cook | Wilverley | £13,337 | £19,500 | 01/11/2023 | 30/11/2024 | Fence and pound |
| Business name | Town | FiPL grant awarded | Total Project Cost | Project start date | Project end date | Project description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| J Nordstrom & DMG | 46 landowners | £109,965 | £143,454 | 20/10/2023 | 31/03/2025 | Thermal drone census, training events and workshops, high seats, devise methodology and baseline DIA survey, DMG co-ordination |
| A Cadge | Bramshaw | £8,440 | £10,223 | 14/09/2023 | 01/11/2023 | Plant hedgerow and trees with fencing |
| D & R Hickman | Copythorne | £12,743 | £21,971 | 01/07/2023 | 18/02/2024 | Create wildlife corridors, new habitats, fencing, wider hedges and tree planting |
| Ringwood RACE | Ringwood | £11,441 | £24,070 | 01/04/2023 | 31/01/2024 | Community woodland and public open space |
| A Parry Norton | Cadnam | £4,795 | £5,994 | 14/03/2023 | 31/03/2023 | Cattle handling equipment on nature reserve |
| 3D Farming | Beaulieu | £19,840 | £29,760 | 01/03/2023 | 31/03/2023 | Ziegler pick up |
| C Sampson | Fordingbridge | £3,440 | £5,189 | 20/02/2023 | 31/03/2023 | Bale sledge accumulator to support haymaking and reduce use of silage |
| W Maughan / NFNPA | Various sites | £7,199 | £7,199 | 04/01/2023 | 30/03/2023 | Hedging plants for small holders / commoners |
| A Rolf | Beaulieu | £11,832 | £14,790 | 01/01/2023 | 31/03/2023 | Top Cutter Solo with “twin” rotor |
| C Sampson | Fordingbridge | £5,531 | £5,531 | 01/01/2023 | 31/03/2023 | Increase habitat, improve availability of backup grazing, reduce likelihood of phosphates entering the watercourses |
| R Collenette | Lymington | £14,112 | £16,830 | 01/12/2022 | 31/03/2024 | Field restoration to allow livestock grazing at a low rate |
| Business name | Town | FiPL grant awarded | Total Project Cost | Project start date | Project end date | Project description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| C Weis | Godshill | £29,807 | £58,308 | 01/11/2022 | 31 April 2024 | Market gardening and community enterprise project |
| A Pollock | Boldre | £2,115 | £3,389 | 01/09/2022 | 31/03/2023 | Build 3 wildlife ponds |
| S Burden | Hyde | £58,619 | £73,755 | 14/07/2022 | 31/03/2024 | Harvest rainwater, solar panels, plant and gap up hedgerow, plant trees, pollen & nectar margins. |
| A Cook | Bramshaw | £17,312 | £22,281 | 11/07/2022 | 31/03/2024 | Fencing and ditch restoration |
| R Lancaster & M Shearing | Godshill | £1,069 | £16,466 | 04/07/2022 | 31/12/2022 | Restore wetland habitat and wood pasture, habitat management |
| M Turner | Burley | £8,042 | £11,000 | 01/07/2022 | 31/03/2024 | New hedges, ditch management, surveys, fencing |
| D Tippetts | Lyndhurst | £4,500 | £4,500 | 14/02/2022 | 31/03/2022 | Purchase charcoal kiln retort |
| CEM Powell | Boldre | £2,339 | £2,411 | 07/02/2022 | 31/03/2022 | Plant hedgerows and trees |
| D Bessant | Shedfield | £3,608 | £3,608 | 07/02/2022 | 31/03/2022 | Plant hedgerows and trees |
| New Forest Fruit Co | East Boldre | £3,713 | £6,183 | 31/01/2022 | 14/07/2022 | Lay and improve hedgerows |
| C Sampson | Fordingbridge | £2,580 | £2,580 | 20/01/2022 | 31/03/2022 | Improve water quality and create wildlife habitat |
| Culverley Farm | Beaulieu | £8,134 | £20,458 | 12/01/2022 | 31/03/2022 | Plant and restore native hedgerows |
| Meyrick Estate | Hinton | £22,482 | £27,751 | 12/01/2022 | 31/03/2022 | Restore Estate hedgerows |
| Simeon Morgan Farming | Keyhaven | £41,112 | £51,390 | 12/01/2022 | 31/03/2022 | Strip Till Maize Cultivator and fertiliser applicator |
| Business name | Town | FiPL grant awarded | Total Project Cost | Project start date | Project end date | Project description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brockenhurst Park Estate LLP | Brockenhurst | £14,213 | £25,314 | 01/01/2022 | 01/02/2024 | Replace Parkland trees and lime avenue |
| GWCT | Fordingbridge | £6,765 | £8,250 | 08/12/2021 | 31/03/2022 | Bring together Farmer Clusters in Avon Catchment, develop conservation plan |
| J Burrell | New Town | £23,437 | £37,697 | 01/12/2021 | 31/03/2023 | Soil management, create wildlife habitats, install rainwater harvesting system, reduce energy and water use |
| P Brannen | Hyde | £3,899 | £5,925 | 01/12/2021 | 31/03/2023 | Plant trees, hedges and wildflowers. |
| S Dovey | Boldre | £33,504 | £34,076 | 05/11/2021 | 31/03/2024 | Planting of hedges, trees, muck management and livestock handling |
| NFLAS | Godshill | £2,549 | £3,720 | 01/11/2021 | 31/03/2024 | Restore and manage meadow, restore hedgerow, use meadow as venue for nature and climate education |
| T Hockley | Lymington | £7,935 | £10,359 | 01/10/2021 | 01/04/2022 | Create network of hedgerows |
| New Forest Trust | Rockford | £4,638 | £5,291 | 01/10/2021 | 31/03/2024 | Improve footpath, ground recovery, pollard invading willows, gap-up and maintain hedge |
| R Lambert | Lyndhurst | £22,003 | £23,153 | 01/10/2021 | 31/03/2024 | Plant hedgerows and trees, reduce livery and restore grasslands, manage pond, enhance grasslands, create orchard |
| M Maes | Hale | £11,392 | £28,227 | 01/10/2021 | 31/03/2024 | Creating wildflower meadows |