Catchment Sensitive Farming: advice to help farmers and land managers reduce pollution
Get help to reduce water and air pollution, from your land. Find out if you’re in a priority area and how you can contact your local adviser.
Applies to England
You can get help and training to reduce water and air pollution from agriculture. Use your Catchment Sensitive Farming (CSF) local advisers for:
- one-to-one advice
- group training and on-farm events
- help to get funding
- visits from agricultural specialists
CSF is only available in Countryside Stewardship high priority areas.
Find out if your land’s in a high priority area
To see if land is in a high priority area:
- Go to MAGIC.
- In Table of Contents, select ‘Countryside Stewardship Targeting & Scoring Layers’, then ‘Water’, then ‘Countryside Stewardship Water Quality Priority Areas (England)’.
- In search box, enter place or postcode and hit return.
- The map shows high priority (red) and medium priority (yellow) areas.
- Click the ‘Identify’ icon on the toolbar (the ‘i’ in a white circle).
- Move the crosshairs over your land and left-click the mouse.
- The pop-up window shows location details and if the land’s in a high priority area.
Contact your local adviser
Look for your county in the list and use the email address given.
In your email, include your:
- name, phone number and email address
- farm address
- farm Standard Business Identifier (SBI) number
Your local adviser will get in touch with you.
East Midlands
csf.eastmidlands@naturalengland.org.uk
- Derbyshire
- Leicestershire
- Lincolnshire
- Nottinghamshire
Humber
csf.humber@naturalengland.org.uk
- Humberside
- North Yorkshire
- South Yorkshire
- West Yorkshire
North Anglia
csf.northanglia@naturalengland.org.uk
- Norfolk
- Suffolk
North East
csf.northeast@naturalengland.org.uk
- Cleveland
- Durham
- Northumberland
- Tyne and Wear
North west
csf.northwest@naturalengland.org.uk
- Cheshire
- Cumbria
- Greater Manchester
- Lancashire
- Merseyside
Severn
csf.severn@naturalengland.org.uk
- Gloucestershire
- Herefordshire
- Shropshire
- Staffordshire
- Warwickshire
- West Midlands
- Worcestershire
South Anglia
csf.southanglia@naturalengland.org.uk
- Bedfordshire
- Cambridgeshire
- Essex
- Hertfordshire
- Leicestershire
- Lincolnshire
- Northamptonshire
South East and Thames
csf.southeastthames@naturalengland.org.uk
- Berkshire
- Buckinghamshire
- Hampshire
- Kent
- Oxfordshire
- Surrey
- Sussex
South West
csf.southwest@naturalengland.org.uk
- Cornwall
- Devon
- Dorset
- Isle of Wight
- Somerset
- Wiltshire
Working in partnership with CSF
CSF also works with a range of partners including:
- water companies
- local authorities
- trade bodies
- environmental organisations
- river trusts
This work includes:
- Flood and Coastal Resilience Innovation programme with local authorities and the Environment Agency
- part-funding farm advisers in partnership with rivers trusts and National Parks authorities
- producing videos, tools and factsheets with Voluntary Initiative and Innovation for Agriculture
If your organisation is interested in working with CSF, email csf.partnerships@naturalengland.org.uk.
How CSF uses your data
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Last updated 13 December 2021 + show all updates
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Changed the content to provide an overview of catchment sensitive farming and made it easier to contact your local adviser.
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Added local adviser contact details.
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Catchment sensitive farming officer support and approval request form added for Countryside Stewardship grants.
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Added 'flood and coastal management' to the list of topics covered by CSF.
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Updated the long-term catchment partnerships table.
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Added Hertfordshire to the long-term catchment partnerships table.
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Added section on how to check if land's in a high priority area.
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CSF is also working to improve air quality.
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Replaced catchment partnerships attachment with updated version.
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Details of new Countryside Stewardship water grant scheme added.
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reminder that final Capital Grant Scheme claims need to be submitted by 31 January 2015.
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added details of new Countryside Stewardship scheme
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Updated Catchment Sensitive Farming officer contact list
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First published.