Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI)
The Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) is a grant for farmers and land managers in England to manage their land in a more environmentally sustainable way. This scheme has closed.
Run by Rural Payments Agency · funded by Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra)
Checked against the official page (gov.uk) on 13 Oct 2026.
This scheme has closed
It closed on 28 August 2026. It stays here in case it reopens; check with the organisation for future rounds. We do not know where it was open, so these are for the whole North.
The Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) aims to help farmers manage land in a way that improves food production and is more environmentally sustainable.
Status and deadline
Status
Confirmed on the official page
Deadline
As stated: Window 1 closed for applications at 11:59pm on 28 August 2026.
Confirmed on the official page
How much
We could not find how much it offers
Who can apply
Confirmed on the official page
Business size
Not confirmed on the official page
Sectors
How to apply
Not confirmed on the official page
Where it is open: England-wide
Confirmed on the official page
Open across England, so every council area in the North of England is shaded.
Drawn from the areas the funder names. If a scheme is only for part of a council area, check its own page. Boundaries from the Office for National Statistics.
- Confirmed on the official page
- Uncertain, or sources disagree
- Important, but we could not find it
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Source and last checked
Local Landscape gathers this information automatically from the pages below, then checks the key details against the official page. Checked against the official page (gov.uk) on 13 Oct 2026. Its details last changed on 18 Oct 2026. No person has checked it, so confirm the details with Rural Payments Agency before you apply.
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- gov.uk/business-finance-support/sustainable-farming-incentive-sfifrom GOV.UK business finance and support finder, read 18 Oct 2026
- gov.uk/government/publications/sustainable-farming-incentive-2026-the official page, checked automatically, read 13 Oct 2026
- gov.uk/government/collections/sustainable-farming-incentive-guidanvia GOV.UK business finance and support finder, read 13 Oct 2026