Richard Wordsworth
Senior Adviser (Support Schemes)Richard has been with the organisation for more than 23 years. During that time Richard has been involved mainly with farm support schemes in England, such as the Single Payment Scheme and Basic Payment scheme and the now many aspects of the Government’s support scheme landscape.
Richard’s work falls into four key themes: 1) development of support scheme policy; 2) implementation of scheme policy; 3) assisting NFU members with scheme issues and; 4) educating and raising awareness of scheme issues with members.
Richard’s work includes a range of schemes including the Sustainable Farming Incentive, Countryside Stewardship and various grants and competitions within the Farming Investment Fund including the Slurry Infrastructure Grant, Farming Equipment and Technology Fund and Improving Farm Productivity grants.
We also work on a number of wider issues including Delinked Payments, Hedgerow Regulations, advice and represent members across a wide number of stakeholder forums.
