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<blockquote data-quote="Brisel" data-source="post: 7377382" data-attributes="member: 166"><p>Not at the moment, but my previous job was managing a farm in the Martin Down super cluster <a href="https://www.farmerclusters.com/case-studies/martin-down-supercluster/" target="_blank">https://www.farmerclusters.com/case-studies/martin-down-supercluster/</a> </p><p></p><p>We didn't take the option of Natural England's Facillitation Fund. It seemed very bureaucratic and most of the money was spent filling their forms in. We opted to put £1/ha/year each and tapped some private charitable funding too. The idea was that this was bottom up farmer led, not reaching out for every grant available though many of us did manage to get help in finding grants for pond digging etc through the people & advisors attracted to these big projects. </p><p></p><p>Without a good chairperson, you will struggle. We had a very good one that everyone respected. Go and meet the chairs and facilitators for other local groups to find out what traps to avoid and what worked for them. </p><p></p><p>Groom the local contacts for FWAG, GWCT, Natural England, especially Catchment Sensitive Farming officers who will give some of their time for free. What started as a loose group of farmers who were used to being suspicious of one another became a good meeting for banter & some competitiveness for how many of X or Y species they had. We took it in turns to host farm walks. It didn't matter that one was more interested in butterflies than the neighbour who was more interested in grey partridge, we had a common purpose.</p><p></p><p>PM me if you want more detail.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Brisel, post: 7377382, member: 166"] Not at the moment, but my previous job was managing a farm in the Martin Down super cluster [URL]https://www.farmerclusters.com/case-studies/martin-down-supercluster/[/URL] We didn't take the option of Natural England's Facillitation Fund. It seemed very bureaucratic and most of the money was spent filling their forms in. We opted to put £1/ha/year each and tapped some private charitable funding too. The idea was that this was bottom up farmer led, not reaching out for every grant available though many of us did manage to get help in finding grants for pond digging etc through the people & advisors attracted to these big projects. Without a good chairperson, you will struggle. We had a very good one that everyone respected. Go and meet the chairs and facilitators for other local groups to find out what traps to avoid and what worked for them. Groom the local contacts for FWAG, GWCT, Natural England, especially Catchment Sensitive Farming officers who will give some of their time for free. What started as a loose group of farmers who were used to being suspicious of one another became a good meeting for banter & some competitiveness for how many of X or Y species they had. We took it in turns to host farm walks. It didn't matter that one was more interested in butterflies than the neighbour who was more interested in grey partridge, we had a common purpose. PM me if you want more detail. [/QUOTE]
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