Future Farming Resilience Fund (FFRF) Registration

Farming is changing. We can help with FREE one-to-one business and environmental advice for farmers.

Join Ricardo (providers of the Farming Advice Service) in their Defra funded FFRF programme to identify steps to get your farming business ready for the future. Take advantage of fully-funded business support provided in-person by Andersons (Farm Business Consultants) or explore Agri-environment scheme and SFI opportunities with an expert adviser.

Register below to receive one or more of the following forms of FREE support:

One to One Business Support - You will receive three days of free consultancy support, including a face-to-face meeting with a business consultant from Andersons, a detailed report and action plan, and follow-up support. The assistance is tailored to your needs, and typically might include:
- Providing expertise to review your business and help with future planning.
- Looking at joint ventures, diversification or the feasibility of options for the future.
- Business finance, debt re-structuring, analysis of capital investment and future funding, or forward budgeting and cashflow management.
One to One Environmental Sustainability Support - You will be offered one day of personal support from an agri-environment expert to look at environmental opportunities, including:
- Agri-environmental opportunities through government schemes.
- Improving soil health and resilience.
- Pollution prevention and risk minimisation.
- Enhancing biodiversity and conservation.
- Increasing carbon sequestration/reducing carbon losses on farm. You will receive a report to document opportunities identified, actions agreed and to provide links to information and guidance on taking next steps.
Follow up support.

Before you complete the application, please note that due to limited Defra funding, farm businesses may only participate in one project under the Future Farming Resilience Fund banner. This means that you can only apply for support from one provider only.

1. Please provide your Single Business Identifier (SBI) number *This question is required.

2. Please provide your full name *This question is required.

3. Business Name *This question is required.

4. Farm Name *This question is required.

5. First line of your address *This question is required.

6. Town *This question is required.

7. County *This question is required.

8. Postcode *This question is required.

9. Please enter your preferred email address *This question is required. This question requires a valid email address.

10. Please enter your preferred contact telephone number *This question is required.

11. Age: Please choose from one of the following options *This question is required.

12. Gender: Please choose from one of the following options *This question is required.

13. Farmer status: Please select from one of the following options *This question is required.

14. Main farm type: Please select from one of the following options *This question is required.

15. Farm Size (classified by full-time equivalent workers): Please select from one of the following options *This question is required.

16. Area of holding: Please select from one of the following options *This question is required.

17. Have you received support from Ricardo previously, either as part of the first pilot phase, the second interim phase or the current scale up phase running from October 2022?
*This question is required.

Have you previously received resilience support from any other provider since the FFRF scheme was introduced by Defra in early 2020, under the FFRF banner.
*This question is required.

If yes, please indicate which provider(s) you have used, using the list below. *This question is required.

Please indicate which support you would like to receive (select all that apply)
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One to one business resilience audit
One to one environmental sustainability audit

Please indicate which support you would like to receive (select all that apply) *This question is required.

One to one business resilience audit (if business has changed considerably since initial resilience audit support delivered)
One to one environmental sustainability audit
Resilience follow up support (only available if the business has already received the one to one business resilience support)
Environmental follow up support (only available if the business has already received the one to one environmental sustainability audit)

21. In what ways do you see this scheme helping you meet your challenges? Select all that apply
*This question is required.

Giving me access to professionals
Help with budgeting/financial planning
Improving my confidence
Succession and/or retirement planning
Improving communication e.g. with friends or family
Facing up to and addressing my challenges
Networking with other farm/land owners
Other (please specify) Please enter an 'other' value for this selection. * This question is required.

22. How did you hear about this service?
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Newspaper/magazine e.g., Farmers Weekly
Friends/family
Social media
Word of mouth
Online
Other (please specify) Please enter an 'other' value for this selection. * This question is required.

23. Programme Information and Agreement to Participate
Ricardo Future Farming Resilience Fund Project

The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) Future Farming Resilience Fund will provide support to farmers and land managers as they prepare for the agricultural transition. This project is available to farming businesses in England that are in receipt of the Basic Payment Scheme (BPS) payments.

The main aim of this programme is to help farmers and land managers in England become more resilient to the challenges caused by Coronavirus (COVID-19), extreme weather events and the forthcoming changes to agricultural support as a result of the UK leaving the EU may result in many farmers and land managers in England needing to adapt their business models and carefully consider options for the future. This project will provide information, tools, advice, and support for farming businesses throughout this period of change.

This project is part of the work Defra is doing with the farming industry to provide resilience support to farmers and land managers in England to help them prepare for, and adjust to, the Agricultural Transition period. This is a Defra-funded initiative and a free service to all those that participate.

About us: Ricardo has a long history of delivering advice to the agricultural sector on a regional and national scale, including the Farming Advice Service (FAS), Catchment Sensitive Farming (CSF) and the Future Farming Resilience Fund pilot project in 2020 and the interim Future Farming Resilience Fund project in 2022. We are proud to be partnering with experts from Andersons, Neil Wilson from SAB Advisory Ltd, the Farming Community Network (FCN), Sarah Starkey from Herefordshire Rural Hub, Andrew Wells from Arable Alliance Ltd, Mary Dimambro from Cambridge Eco Ltd, John Morgan from Creedy Associates Ltd, Elaine Jewkes from Soil Sense and Fraser Hugill from Eaton & Hugill.

What is required from you?

Participating in the project
The project will run from 3rd October 2022 to 2nd March 2025

As part of the project enrolment, we require you to complete some information about your business, this consent form signed and returned, feedback forms following each activity you participate in and a final survey towards the end of the programme in 2025.

Due to limited Defra funding, farm businesses may only participate in one project under the Future Farming Resilience Fund banner between October 2022 and March 2025.

Defra will be distributing entry and exit surveys to a sample of participants. The surveys will look to contribute to Defra’s understanding of the impact and value for money the FFRF has had. Defra will select a sample of participants to engage with at two main stages of the support, this will be at the beginning stage, the registration stage and the end stage of the one to one support.
*This question is required.

I confirm that I have read the information above, provided to me by Ricardo and have understood the purpose of the programme and agree by entering my full name below
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I agree to participate in the programme and understand that my participation is voluntary and that I am free to withdraw at any time without giving any reason and without my rights being affected and agree by entering my full name below
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I agree for Ricardo to keep my contact details on file until 30th June 2025 for the purposes of administering this programme and agree by entering my full name below. More details on the way this information will be treated can be found here https://ricardo.com/privacy-notice.
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I consent for my contact details and demographic information to be shared with Andersons and appropriate Environmental Sustainability advisors for the purposes of delivering one-to-one farm audits and agree by entering my full name below.
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I consent for my contact information to be shared with Defra/RPA and the external evaluator for the purpose of dual funding checks, to ensure advice has been provided as claimed by Ricardo and to independently evaluate the project and agree by entering my full name below.
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I consent for my contact details to be shared with Defra or third parties (working on behalf of Defra) for directly relevant research purposes only and agree by entering my full name below.
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24. I confirm that I will not receive any other one to one support by other providers under the Future Farming Resilience Fund banner since Defra introduced the scheme in early 2020 and agree by entering my full name below.
*This question is required.