The Farm for the Future programme is now closed.
It was designed to provide information, support and guidance for farmers to navigate their way through the Agricultural Transition; due to changing policy, reduction and ultimate loss of the Basic Payment Scheme (BPS) and the emergence of new Environmental Land Management (ELM) schemes.
The programme was funded by Defra’s Future Farming Resilience Fund, and made available to any tenant or owner-occupied farm currently in receipt of BPS in England - running between 2021 until March 2025. The Hill Farm Project (HFP) worked with the Royal Countryside Fund as one of 19 regional delivery partners across the country to build on their existing relationships within the farming communities, delivering tailored activity for local needs.
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HFP delivered 24 events through this programme, with free local events which addressed some of the main concerns brought about by the policy changes, eg. impacts on the resilience of the Farm Business and assessing the opportunity from new Environmental schemes, plus a selection of topic events.
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Having worked with over 150 Dartmoor farms during the programme, we hope that this has provided useful advice in challenging times and the feedback from our group has been positive. It has further supported our wider delivery at HFP, designed to complement our wider events offer.​ We hope that it will have introduced ideas, provided support and led to opportunities for continued collaboration locally.
Many of the key web links or documents issued by Defra are listed on our Resources page for easy access.
