Gloucestershire

State of Nature

The Farming and Wildlife Advisory Group South West, the Countryside and Community Research Institute and Natural England expression of interest in running a Farmer Led new Environmental Land Management Scheme (ELMS) trial in Gloucestershire is based on the learning from the projects and pilots, all of which use the integrated local delivery framework.Read more

ILD – Integrated Local Delivery

Inspiring and enabling local communities: An Integrated Delivery Model for Localism and the Environment. Click here to read more about the ILD and to download the supporting documents.Read more

Severn Vale Guardians

Gloucestershire FWAG are delighted to announce that we have been awarded funding from Natural England to support our new farmer group, the ‘Severn Vale Guardians’. Working with key partners the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust (WWT), the aim of the Severn Vale Guardians is to form a collaborative group of farmers and land managers to achieve landscape scale improvements in the local natural environment.Read more

Carrant Catchment Restoration Project

The Carrant Catchment Restoration Project has received support from the latest round of Facilitation Funding, therefore we will be working with local farmers, advisers and the Kemerton Conservation Trust in order to carry out plans developed in the initial stage of the project.Read more

Upper Thames Catchment Partnership

Water management is changing, with management techniques taking into consideration the whole of river catchments. This new approach has recently been adopted by the Government and FWAG SW has played a leading role in the development of the Catchment Based Approach (CaBA) through the pilot phase of the Upper Thames Catchment project based in the Cotswolds.Read more

WILD Project

The Cotswold Water Park WILD Project (Water with Integrated Local Delivery) is a three year project set within the Cotswold Water Park, it aims to improve water quality and biodiversity in order to meet the demands of EU legislation.Read more

Farmer Guardians of the Upper Thames

The farmer lead collaborations of the Guardians of the Upper Thames, chaired by local farmer Richard Rumming, focus on the communities at risk of flooding by covering 16,000 hectares from the river’s source at Kemble to areas such as Cricklade in Wiltshire, aiming for methods of long term environmental improvements. Many positive outcomes have emerged from this particular initiative in the Cotswolds. Click here to find out more.Read more

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Strategic Farm Event: Improving grassland management – Cirencester

Beef & Lamb Strategic Farms, part of AHDB’s wider inspiring farm excellence network, aim to demonstrate clear advances in on-farm productivity by monitoring performance and implementing best practice.

Soils Conference

Join us at the Royal Bath & West of England Society’s summer Soils Conference in partnership with FWAG, through the Hills to Levels project and Innovation for Agriculture.

[18.05.2018] Dennings Down Farm Presented the Devon Bronze Otter Award for Conservation for 2017

A Farm Walk took place at Dennings Down Farm, Axminster, on the afternoon of Wednesday 16th May 2018 to present Hamish Bengough with the Devon Bronze Otter Award for the remarkable and innovative conservation work he is undertaking on his farm.

Dusk Bird Song Walk

Join FWAG SouthWest for a Quantock Hills Facilitation Fund event. Thomas Mansfield will lead a walk through the woods to identify various birds through sightings and their song.

Become a member

JOIN US! Become a friend or a member and you'll be helping to create a better farmed environment for everyone across the South West.

Farm Plastics Recycling Scheme

The first FWAG Farm Plastics Recycling Scheme began in 2004 and has taken place annually ever since. The aim of the scheme is to provide farmers with a responsible, environmentally sound way to recycle plastic, preventing it from going to landfill. The scheme is simple and straight forward, with no membership fees so the farmers only pay for the plastic they bring.

Kingfisher Project

The Kingfisher Award Scheme (KAS) provides children with the opportunity to go onto farms to explore the natural world.

Countryside Stewardship

FWAG SW has a wealth of experience about the range of grants on offer and their suitability for your farm business. We can prepare and submit an application on your behalf and we can help you with your evidence and record keeping requirements.

Mission and vision

FWAG SouthWest seeks to support, enthuse and inspire fellow farmers to value the environmental assets on their land and use them to secure sustainable and profitable businesses for the future.

Hills to levels

Hills to Levels is a holistic catchment management approach across catchments in Somerset, aiming to ‘slow the flow’ to reduce flood risk, reduce erosion, improve water quality, deliver wider environmental benefits and increase resilience on the floodplain. The idea is that a lot of small-scale interventions will have an effect at the large catchment scale with the motto that ‘every field, every farm, every stream has its part to play in flooding and water quality’.