Rural Payments (Scottish Rural Development Programme)
Crofting Agricultural Grant Scheme
Grants for crofters to improve their crofts through capital projects such as agricultural buildings, and to establish Common Grazings Committees. Suits crofters and crofting groups in Scotland.
What it pays for
Conditions to know about
Open to croft tenants, owner-occupier crofters, sub-tenants, groups of these, and properly constituted Common Grazings Committees. Limits: up to £25,000 per individual crofter and up to £125,000 per group in any two-year period. Grant rates vary by area and by young or other farmer status. Competitive scoring; about £2 million available each year until 2020.
How to apply
Applications go through the funder. Read their page for the full rules and the form.
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Source: Scottish Government Rural Payments: all schemes. Last checked 11 Nov 2026. Read from the funder’s page by AI, with each key fact checked against the page text.
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Listed under Premises, Farming and land, Scotland
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