Advice & Grants
0300 323 0161
Monday - Friday
9am to 5pm
Advice line
For general enquiries or for more information about the service, phone the advice line on 0300 323 0161, email advice@fas.scot or explore this website in more detail.
The advice line operates between 9am and 5pm Monday to Friday, covering a wide variety of topics including cross compliance, water framework directive requirements, climate change and other technical issues.
Grants towards one-to-one advice
Regardless of farm size or business stage, FAS can help you to increase the profitability and sustainability of your farming business through Government funding for one-to-one advice, worth up to a total of £3,200.
Commission an adviser to undertake a confidential assessment of your business and help develop your plans for the future.
As part of an ILMP, receive funding for 2 further specialist advice plans to take a deeper look at topics of interest.
Identify where performance improvements and savings can be made.
Up to 4 days with a personal mentor
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Help to secure the future of your farm through Government-funded grant support and one-to-one advice.
One-to-one advice and grant support for new entrants to farming and crofting.
In April 2017, Iain Withers, a new entrant to farming, started his own business – Narrowboat Farm, a small-scale market garden in Linlithgow.
In 2015, Beauty Bhowmik and her husband Devproteek, decided to change careers and move their family from London to East Kilbride to start a farm business.
Bitney MacNab has ambitious plans to diversify from her bed and breakfast business, and establish a completely self-sufficient, sustainable, eco-friendly smallholding.
For many years, land owner, Fergus Laing has run a successful and diverse highland estate, incorporating a tenant farm, golfing, fishing and hunting.
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