Guidance

How to make a capital or revenue claim for Countryside Stewardship

Read the guidance to help you make your claim for payment using the Rural Payments service or a claim form.

From:
Rural Payments Agency, Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, Forestry Commission, and Natural England
Published
18 March 2021
Last updated
514 JanuaryMarch 2023 — See all updates

Applies to England

Make a revenue claim

RPA must receive your claim, and any supporting documents and evidence that need to be submitted with your claim, by 11:59pm on 15 May 2023. RPA will apply late reductions to claims received after this deadline depending on when we receive the claim.

If this is the first year of your agreement, you must submit a revenue claim in 2023.

Make a claim online

You can claim online using the Rural Payments service. Once you’ve signed in, select ‘View business’ then scroll down the business overview to ‘Countryside Stewardship claims’.

On the Countryside Stewardship claims screen, click the button ‘Annual Declaration’ to make your annual revenue claimsclaim.

You arecan currentlythen closed.use the on-screen ‘Help’ link to take you through each process step-by-step.

Read more about how to create an annual declaration online.

Make a claim by email or post

If you’re unable to claim online, you’ll need to contact RPA by phone or email to request a revenue claim form.

Follow the guidance on how to complete your CS revenue claim form by email or post.

Send your completed form, supporting documents and evidence (where relevant) to us by post or email using our contact details.

There is guidance to help you when emailing documents to the Rural Payments Agency.

Make a capital claim

You can submit a capital claim at any time of year. However, this must be:

  • within 3 months of the end of your agreement - a late claim reduction will apply if the claim is received between 3 and 6 months
  • after the capital work is finished
  • after you have been charged or invoiced

All the information you need to know about Countryside Stewardship capital claims is in the relevant scheme manual.

Make a claim online

You can claim online using the Rural Payments service. Once you’ve signed in, select ‘View business’ then scroll down the business overview to ‘Countryside Stewardship claims’.

On the Countryside Stewardship claims screen, select the relevant green button:

  • Create a new Countryside Stewardship Capital Claim 2023
  • Create a new Countryside Stewardship Capital Claim 2022

You can then use the on-screen ‘Help’ link to take you through each process step-by-step.

Make a claim by email or post

If you’re unable to claim online, you’ll need to contact RPA by phone or email to request a capital claim form.

Follow the attached guidance on how to complete your CS capital claim form by email or post.

Send your completed form, supporting documents and evidence (where relevant) to us by post or email using our contact details.

There is guidance to help you when emailing documents to the Rural Payments Agency.

Contact us

Rural Payments Agency
(Countryside Stewardship)
PO Box 324
Worksop
S95 1DF

Email: ruralpayments@defra.gov.uk

Telephone: 03000 200 301
Monday to Friday, 8am to 5pm (excluding public holidays)
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Published 18 March 2021
Last updated 514 JanuaryMarch 2023 + show all updates

  1. Addition of information about submitting a CS revenue claim for 2023.

  2. Page now explains how you can make an online claim using on-screen help and links to guidance for making a claim by email or post.

  3. Closure of Countryside Stewardship annual revenue claims for 2022.

  4. Updated for CS revenue claims opening on 15 March 2022.

  5. Added link to Countryside Stewardship revenue payment rates from 1 January 2022. Removed information about rotational options.

  6. The revenue claim summary has been updated to show land parcel reference numbers in the rotational options section (Section3).

  7. Edited news to confirm CS revenue claims have closed for 2021. Removed out of date updates.

  8. Edited the information about the deadline for receiving claims as the 17 May deadline has now passed. Removed outdated information about additional helpline dates.

  9. Update call out box to include message about additional helpline opening hours.

  10. Detail added to explain that currently the rotational option section (secton 3) in the revenue claim summary does not contain any land parcel reference numbers. To also explain what to do until 20 July when this will be updated.

  11. RPA opening hours between Thursday 1 April and Tuesday 6 April.

  12. First published.

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