Farm Woodlands

A couple of important deadlines coming off.

EECS is not far away, the deadline there.

29th of June is a cut-off point for most applications.

So those are for most applications, but it's a 31st of July deadline if it's just a standalone organic deadline.

If you're wanting to apply for organics as well as another option, then that's back to the 29th of June.

So it's only for organic only option for the 31st of July.

And of course, FFIS, which I think we mention in every episode, FFIS deadline for uploading evidence.

That'll be nine months after you got your contract offer.

So in most cases, that's going to be wearing towards the end of July.

I would definitely rather remind people too many times than not enough times because we don't want people having to pay back the grant money.

No, it's important if you haven't done so already, check out that contract, make sure you order or you have got delivered what you're supposed to be getting funding for, make sure you've paid it, make sure you've got your ducks in a row in terms of invoices, payment evidence, and remember you need to get those geotagged photographs as well.

I think it's also worth noting that don't just leave it till the very last minute.

The application for submitting all your evidence, it does take a little bit longer than your initial application, which you put in.

You need to go and add in a few bits of text to say how it's benefited you and your farm as well.

So don't leave it to the last minute.

If you've got the item already, just get it done and then it's out the way and you don't need to worry about it again.

That's right, Tiffany.

It's not just as simple as uploading the bank statements or whatever.

It does take a minute to write in your little spiel about how it's benefiting your business and then also what it's going to do for some of the categories, some of the key categories that they were looking for in the application.