Grant Funding: Solutions & Investments

Grants, Environmental Land Management and Stewardship Schemes

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Funding Opportunities for Your Business

Grant funding can make a significant contribution to businesses looking for solutions to help them achieve their aspirations around People, Planet and Profit.

Knight Frank has considerable experience in delivering public and private sector grant funding to a wide range of clients.

We can access private capital and help businesses source and unlock access to public funding grants, many of which are often poorly publicised and under subscribed.

Who can apply for publicly funded grants?

Grants are available to a wide range of sectors including:

  • Rural businesses and estates
  • Charities and educational organisations
  • Leisure and sporting organisations
  • Public sector bodies

Explore current Grand Funding opportunities for your business.

What do the available grants cover?

Grants cover a wide range of activities from decarbonising supply chains to capital expenditure on plant, machinery and buildings. They can be broadly divided into the following categories:

  • The environment and climate change mitigation
  • Business efficiencies, resilience and development
  • Technology and research
  • Arts, culture, heritage and community
Private funding solutions

Knight Frank provides property advice to some of the world’s largest organisations and companies in the UK and across the world. Through our network we have access to commercial businesses with a strong ESG ethos that are actively looking to invest in a variety of projects across the UK covering a broad range of interests including:

  • Nature-based projects and solutions
  • Climate change mitigation and net-zero aspirations
  • Health and wellbeing
  • Flood mitigation
  • Biodiversity enhancement
  • Afforestation
  • Sustainable food production
  • Food supply systems and chains
  • Heritage, architectural and cultural preservation
  • Community projects and levelling up
  • Health and wellbeing
  • Food supply systems and chains

Environmental Land Management and Stewardship Schemes


Are you looking to manage your land and rural business in an environmentally sustainable way? Defra's Environmental Land Management Schemes (ELMs) - such as Sustainable Farming Incentive and Countryside Stewardship - can help achieve this goal by encouraging English landowners and farmers to take measures that benefit the environment. By participating in one or more of these, you can receive annual revenue and capital support for activities such as maintaining hedgerows and trees, managing water courses and creating habitats for wildlife.

At Knight Frank, we can help guide you through the application process and recommend measures most suitable for your land. We also offer ongoing management services to ensure that you meet the scheme's requirements and manage your land in an environmentally sustainable manner. Additionally, we can help you maximize the financial benefits of participating in ELMs by providing advice on rental agreements and lease negotiations. Partner with us to ensure that your land is both environmentally responsible and financially sustainable.

Knight Frank’s team of specialist rural consultants can help you choose which schemes are most relevant for your business and guide you through the application process.