Farm Business Grant (FBG) – Yard Coverings
Wednesday, October 21st, 2020The FBG Yard Coverings Scheme is being offered to help pay for yard coverings and improved drainage systems for buildings. The first Expression of Interest (EOI) window is due to open on 9 November and will run for 6 weeks until 18 December 2020. A second application round is scheduled to open on 18 May 2021.
Welsh Government have now issue detailed guidance on the new Scheme- these can be accessed by following the links below:-
General Rules Booklet & List of Eligible items
How to use Rural Payments Wales (RPW) to apply
If you are interested in the Scheme or wish to clarify anything, please contact us here at CARA on 01570 471516 or email office@carawales.co.uk
- Same principles as old FBG. Standard cost for items. £3000 minimum grant (£7,500 spend) and £12,000 maximum grant (£30,000 spend) but starting from a clean slate now. As previously, producers must have a turnover of less than £1m.
- Standard cost of £90/m2 (£8.36/ft2) of roof covering @ 40% grant – so grant of £36/m2 (in theory min roofing area 83m2 and max roofing area 333m2)
- There will be 5 types of roof areas with different scores – covering livestock feeding areas, covering manure stores, covering silage stores, covering slurry stores and covering gathering areas.
- Scores for each item are then multiplied by the water quality and water quantity area you are in -as determined by Welsh Government.
- There are additional items available such as guttering & downpipes, sleeping policemen, slurry analysis kit, but these will not effect the score at all. They could however be used to get you to the minimum spend.
- You will need to submit geo-tagged BEFORE photos of the area to be roofed with the EOI – 3 photos if possible
- Farmers will have 12 months from date of issue of Contract to complete the works and submit a claim.
- It must be new roofing – not second hand. You can build it yourself, but if you do, an engineer’s certificate must be provided.
- At the Claim stage, you will be required to submit confirmation re. planning permission and SUDS (deals with surface water on developments over 100sqm), letter from Accountant re £1m turnover, invoices for shed / materials and geo-tagged AFTER photos
The AFTER geo-tagged photos will also need to show that the clean water from the new roof is diverted to a clean water drain, and that the slurry from the yard area is directed to the slurry pit.