Read on to find out more about the facilitation fund and how it can support landowners. Jack Woolfenden is the facilitator for this group; if you have further questions, please make contact.

email: Jack Woolfenden

call: ​01392 388073

​For the signed-up landholders, the facilitation funds can:​

• Give additional points for Countryside Stewardship applications, so that they are more likely to be successful
• Provide help and advice with Countryside Stewardship applications
• Organise free workshops and training in agriculture, forestry, grants etc, with the subject matter being identified by Facilitation Group members
• Give general advice, support and opportunities for joint working

The Taw Valley and Little Dart Landowners Group Facilitation Fund, co-facilitated with Devon Wildlife Trust, is running from the 1st June 2023 for three years until May 2026 and has over 60 signed up farming members. The area covered is over 37,000Ha of farmland between North Tawton and Bishops Tawton, including the Little Dart catchment. The area has water quality issues, particularly phosphate and nitrate levels. There are also problem levels of faecal indicator organisms in many of the streams and rivers.  There is also significant flood risk at North Tawton, Umberleigh and downstream towards Barnstaple.
​To find out more then please contact Jack Woolfenden..

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The Biosphere is the ideal place to host these funds due to our history of landscape scale nature conservation and well developed network of land owner support services. There are two other Facilitation Funds running within the North Devon Biosphere. The Hidden Heart of Devon (HHoD) and Torridge Valley Network (TVN). These two groups are being Facilitated by the Devon Wildlife Trust. For more details on these to group please follow the link to the Devon Wildlife Trust website www.devonwildlifetrust.org/northern-devon-natural-solutions-what-we-offer)

​The European Agricultural Fund for
Rural Development:
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