Grant Advice

[tommer9]

I have spoken to them in the past, but wasnt eligible at the time. Ill try them again, and Council etc.

[Ian Leach]

I'm part of a coppice network and they get funding for up to 75% of the equipment and you pay the other percentage. I think it's a hell of alot of paperwork tho, I will email my friend who has been in the network for longer than me and see what info i can get if you want, I should be seeing him in the next few days so i'll ask.

[tommer9]

Thanks Ian that would be great.

[Theocus]

I went to a show not so long ago and i saw business link were offering grants for sustainable woodland initiatives in certain areas. It could be worth contacting them and looking? Just a thought.

[combined tree services]

tyr the Silvanus Trust tommer , i tried but because im solely involved it tre surgery and not forestry of forrestry associated work such as milling etc i did not fit the criteria . further to that give south west busines enterprise trust a call . sorry i dont have any phone numbers mate , any way if you have any luck anywhere elts mate let me knowas im in a simmilar position that i need to get bigger machinery but banks dont wanna lend money and intrest rates on things such as the never never are far to high !!!

[TimberCutterDartmoor]

1) Business Link; altho grants in our neck of the woods are scarce apparently.

2) Winston Churchill Memorial Trust - just about anything.

3) Princes Trust - ???

4) Devon / Cornwall Rural Skills Trust.

5) As someone else said - SWRDA

6) Set yourself up as a charity !!!

 

Prob some more - will come back to you...

[Stephen Blair]

i think the grants are out there, its the ability to write a business plan and do the paperwork that will trip most of us up, i would try and find the correct person to do this for you. i have always just grafted and borrowed money, but as the years go on i would much rather spend a few days with a pen and get a big pile of money through the post.

[Ian Leach]

here's some that they use Natural England - Home Page

[Buzz]

Business Link is your best bet, it's a real ball aching process though !

[Quickthorn]

I've been looking for almost the same thing for small scale forwarding machinery. Here's another link

 

GrantNet

 

I got this via my local authority web page.

 

It really is pot luck with grants; personally, I seem to be surrounded by people who have benefited, but have never been in the right time at the right place. On this latest search, it pulled up 17 schemes, of which I was ineligible for 17. I even looked into a commercial loan with the government's loan guarantee scheme, but that specifically rules out anything to do with forestry. What may be good for you is anything to do with ERDP, funded by DEFRA. In my area, it gives 50% funding, but the schemes start at £24,000..no good for me, because I don't need that much.

 

One thing I do notice about this about this sort of funding: it often seems to end up in the pockets of those who don't really need it, and it also makes life hard for the people who never seem to qualify, because the people who do get the funding often run the kit at a lower rate than someone who'd funded it themselves would have to do.