Expressions of interest for Defra’s new £25million ring fenced natural flood management fund open today (22 September 2023) and will close on 10 November 2023. Funding is available for projects that can be delivered during 2024-27 and the programme will be managed by the Environment Agency. For those interested, details of the programme can be viewed here and the full prospectus can be read here.
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Graphene from slurry
For those with an interest in these things there was a story on the Farming Programme this morning about a “world first”