Henry Leveson-Gower

Henry is Head of the New Entrant Support Scheme. He works closely with the organisations who are leading the pilot projects.

New Entrant Support Scheme pilots: our initial findings

Henry Leveson-Gower, 9 October 2023 - Payments for entering farming

Earlier this year, I shared an update on the New Entrant Support scheme pilots. In the post, I included portraits of our participants. Since the pilots finished in May, we have been busy evaluating them using participant surveys, interviews and reports from the pilot leaders. With close to 200 pilot participants, there was a lot of valuable feedback to analyse, and we continue to learn from it. In this post, I’d like to share our initial findings so far.

New Entrant Support Scheme: an update on our pilots

Henry Leveson-Gower, 29 March 2023 - Payments for entering farming, Things we're doing

Through 5 pilots, we’re exploring different ways to support new entrants to develop successful land-based businesses in England. We’re now over halfway through. In this post, I’ll share a brief overview of our participants, what we’ve learned and our next steps.

New Entrant Support Scheme: apply for the pilot

Henry Leveson-Gower, 24 November 2022 - Payments for entering farming

We want to better support those who want to enter farming and develop land-based businesses. One idea that we said we were keen to test through a pilot was incubation: providing tactical support to young businesses through the early stages of development. We put out a call for proposals from organisations to lead these projects through the new entrant support pilot. The bids we received over the summer were impressive. Now that we have pilot leads, you can apply to take part in the pilot.

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