Thomas Proudfoot

Tom leads the development of new slurry infrastructure grants within the Tackling Pollution from Slurry project. The team are using different interventions to help farmers make better use of organic nutrients and reduce harm to the environment.

Slurry Infrastructure grant: last chance to apply

Thomas Proudfoot, 12 January 2024 - Payments for equipment, technology and infrastructure

Round 2 of the Slurry Infrastructure grant will close for applications on Wednesday 17 January. We’re supporting many more projects than we did last year, so if you need slurry storage, now is the time to apply for a grant. In this post, I’ll give you a recap of the grant and the information you need to get started.

Apply now for a Slurry Infrastructure grant

Thomas Proudfoot, 21 November 2023 - Payments for equipment, technology and infrastructure

I’m pleased to say you can now apply for a Slurry Infrastructure grant. In this round, Round 2, £74 million of grant funding is available. This is more than double the funding available in Round 1. With more funding available, we’d strongly encourage everyone who wants to improve their slurry storage to apply for a grant.

Slurry Infrastructure grant: join our webinar and read guidance for round 2

Thomas Proudfoot, 12 October 2023 - Payments for equipment, technology and infrastructure, Webinars

In April, I blogged about the outcome of the first round of Slurry Infrastructure grants. In that post, I said we were planning to launch two further, larger rounds in Autumn 2023 and 2024. In this post, I'll share details of the grant and a link to a webinar we held on the grant to learn more.

Slurry Infrastructure grants: first round summary and our next steps

Thomas Proudfoot, 4 April 2023 - Payments for equipment, technology and infrastructure, Things we're doing

Offered alongside better advice and fairer, more effective regulation, the Slurry Infrastructure grant is designed to help livestock farmers make better use of their slurries to meet crop need and cut pollution. In December, we opened the first round of the Slurry Infrastructure grant for applications. In this post, I’ll explain how we prioritised projects and what will happen next. I’ll also describe some changes we are making to the payment process in light of the high demand for the scheme.

Slurry Infrastructure grant: time to apply

Thomas Proudfoot, 23 January 2023 - Payments for equipment, technology and infrastructure

At the end of this month, the first round of the Slurry Infrastructure grant will close for applications. So, if you haven’t yet applied, now is the time to. In this post, I’ll give you a recap of the grant and the process to apply before the 31 January.

Apply for a Slurry Infrastructure grant

Thomas Proudfoot, 6 December 2022 - Payments for equipment, technology and infrastructure

A fortnight ago, we made full guidance for the new Slurry Infrastructure grant available on GOV.UK. I said I’d blog again when it was time to apply. I’m pleased to say that the first round is now open for applications and it will stay open until 31 January 2023.

Slurry Infrastructure grant: guidance now available

Thomas Proudfoot, 23 November 2022 - Payments for equipment, technology and infrastructure

Applications for the new slurry infrastructure grant will open on 6 December 2022. To help you prepare, we've made the full grant guidance available on GOV.UK.

Farming Investment Fund – new slurry infrastructure grants coming in autumn 2022

Thomas Proudfoot, 9 June 2022 - Payments for equipment, technology and infrastructure

Today we’re announcing more details about the new slurry storage grants that we will be launching later this year, as part of the Farming Investment Fund. This post gives extra context to the information published today on GOV.UK. We explain what the new grant offers, how to apply and what to look out for over the coming months.

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