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Jan 3, 2024 · Capital Grants are 3-year agreements offering capital items to achieve specific environmental benefits within 4 groups: boundaries, trees and orchards; improved water quality; improved air...
- Applicant’s guide: Capital Grants 2024 - GOV.UK
Capital Grants are 3-year agreements offering capital items...
- How to complete your online Capital Grants application - GOV.UK
This guidance explains how to complete your Capital Grants...
- Applicant’s guide: Capital Grants 2024 - GOV.UK
Jan 3, 2024 · Capital Grants are 3-year agreements offering capital items to achieve specific environmental benefits within 4 groups: boundaries, trees and orchards (including the former hedgerows and ...
- Getting started
- Create your Capital Grants application
- Edit your application
- View and print documents
- Confirm your information and submit your application
- After you’ve applied
- Supporting documents and evidence
- What happens next
Before you start your application, you must read the scheme guidance Capital Grants applicant’s guide.
After you’ve signed into the Rural Payments service, click ‘View business’. Scroll down the ‘Business overview’ screen and click ‘Countryside Stewardship applications’.
If you cannot see the ‘Countryside Stewardship applications’ link, you should check that you have the correct permission level to create an application. For more information read the ‘Check your permission levels’ section. If you still cannot see the link after your permission level has been updated in the Rural Payments service, you should ‘sign out’ then ‘sign in’ again, to refresh your account.
Use the Countryside Stewardship application screens to apply online for Capital Grants.
There’s a ‘Help’ link on the screens that will tell you step-by-step what to do on each screen. Click the Help link, then scroll down to the long list of blue links at the end of the Help window. Click the relevant Capital Grants link.
You must also create a map to support your application. Read Annex 1 - Supporting maps.
On the Countryside Stewardship applications screen, click the button to ‘Apply for CS Capital Grants’.
When your application is successfully created a ‘Successful’ message will appear.
After you’ve successfully added the land parcels to your application, ‘Open’ your application again on the Countryside Stewardship applications screen.
Using the list on your screen, you can add details to your online application using ‘Edit your application’ or use the other choices to create the land parcel warnings report again and application summary.
Click ‘Edit your Application’.
A list of everything you need to do in your application appears.
Application summary
This summary shows the information you have entered into your application. It’s important that you use it to check you’ve given the correct information, before you submit your application. Then if needed, you can go back into your application and change it. (You also get another opportunity to create an application summary after you’ve submitted your application to RPA to keep as a record of the application you’ve submitted.) Click ‘View and print your application summary’. Click ‘Generate’ to create the document. The first time you generate the document the ‘Download’ button will not be clearly visible. When the document is ready the ’Download’ button turns green, and the button will now always be visible. The date and time that appears next to the ‘Download’ button tells you when the document was last updated with the information in your application. After you’ve generated the document, click ‘Download’ to see the document. If you always click ‘Generate’ before you click ‘Download’, you’ll always see the most up to date information in your application. You can read the summary on screen by scrolling down the pages or you can print or save it for your records by using the buttons that appear when you place the cursor near the middle point at the bottom of the screen. Do not send it to us as a paper form – we cannot accept it. Remember to complete your supporting map(s) – read Annex 1.
Parcels under agreement warnings report
This warnings report lists any land parcels that need to be removed from your application. This is because they are already included in a live agreement or another application. The report also shows details of the agreement/application that the land parcels are currently included in, and the status of that agreement or application. For more information read ‘Check land parcel warnings’ in the ‘Complete’ section. If all of the land parcels in your application are available to use, the report will not contain any information. Click ‘View and print the Parcel under Agreement warnings report’. To create your report, follow the instructions in the Application summary section. You can read the report on screen by scrolling down the pages or you can print or save it for your records. Use the buttons that appear when you place the cursor near the middle point at the bottom of the screen. You must return to the land parcel screen to remove all the land parcels from your application that appear in the warnings report.
Application summary
When you’ve completed your application, you need to check that the information in it is correct. To do this, create or update your application summary by following the instructions in the ‘View and print documents’ section. Then if needed, you can go back into your application and change it.
Withdraw your application
If you decide you do not want to submit your application, click ‘Withdraw’. A message appears to check that you do want to withdraw the application. Click ‘No’ if you do not want to withdraw it. Click ‘Yes’ if you do want to withdraw it. You’ll see a screen message confirming that you’ve successfully withdrawn the application. This application will not be submitted to RPA, and you cannot open it again, but you can create a new application while the application buttons are available. Click ‘Back’ to return to the application screen (where you’ll see the application status is now ‘Withdrawn’ and the application is no longer ‘Active’).
Submit your application
If you have checked your application summary and the information in your application is correct, click ‘Submit’ to apply for Capital Grants. If your application meets all the requirements for the grant and you have completed the declaration, the screen will confirm that your application has ‘submitted successfully’ to RPA. Click ‘Print’ if you want to print and keep the confirmation for your records. Click ‘Back’ to return to the application screen (where you’ll see that the application status has changed to ‘Submitted’ and the application is still ‘Active’. It also shows the date and time your application was submitted. For information about submitting ‘Supporting documents and evidence’ read that section.
Application summary
You may have already created this at the ‘Edit your application’ screen while you were completing your application. You should ‘generate’ and ‘download’ it again after you complete your application to make sure it contains everything you’ve put into your application. As explained earlier in the ‘View and print documents’ section. You may want to print or save your application summary and keep for your records. Read the ‘Supporting documents and evidence’ section for details about how to send your supporting documents and any evidence that must be submitted to RPA.
After you’ve submitted your online application, RPA must receive your supporting documents and any evidence that needs to be submitted within 30 days of the ‘Submit Date’ in the initial Countryside Stewardship applications screen. If you cannot submit them to reach RPA within the 30 days, you must tell RPA within the 30 days why you cannot submit them. If we do not receive either, we’ll need to reject your application. You may need to keep some evidence until you’re asked for it. To check what evidence is needed read Grant finder.
You may also need to keep some evidence until you’re asked for it.
If your application meets the eligibility criteria, you will be offered an agreement.
You’ll receive confirmation regardless of whether your application has been successful. If it’s successful, you’ll receive an agreement offer letter. The Agreement Start Date will be set out in the agreement documents contained with the agreement offer letter.
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