As part of Anglian Water’s commitment to protecting raw water quality and promoting sustainable agriculture, we offer a suite of targeted grant schemes designed to support farmers and land managers across priority catchments.

 

Whether you're looking to trial innovative practices, attend training, or host events, our funding programmes are designed to help you take meaningful actions that benefits both your business and the region’s water environment.

Farm Innovation Grant 2025

The fifth round of the grant opened at the end of May 2025. It's specifically aimed at supporting new and innovative on-farm projects helping find local solutions to local raw water quality challenges (herbicides, nitrates, phosphates and soil loss) in priority catchments. Over the last four rounds it's supported 178 applicants with projects worth over £3.4 million, all of which benefit the regions raw water protection.

If you're considering changes which will reduce risks to raw water quality within a priority Anglian Water Catchment please visit for more details.

Farmer Training Grant 2025

Do you manage land within our region?  Are you considering attending a course, event or workshop where there's a link to raw water protection and/or soil health?

If you are, then our Farmer Training Grant may be able to support with 50% funding towards the cost, up to a maximum of £600.  Find more information, complete our simple form or talk to your local Catchment Advisor.

Event Grant

Are you planning an event related to land management or soil health which links to raw water quality protection?  Our Events grant could support you with up to £1000 towards delivery - please visit this link for more details or talk to your local catchment advisor.

Wider Support

 

Through our Catchment Management commitments we partner with a range of external organisations to help us reduce risks to raw water quality and improve our regions rivers through sustainable land management. Our partnerships include: 

 

  • Changes in farm practices intended to benefit soil health, biodiversity and carbon will all have an impact on raw water quality entering surface and ground waters, so we're pleased to have Trinity AgTech and their Sandy platform as one of our New Deal partners.
  • Working with RHIZA and RMA on our Catchment Weather Stations and the free RHIZA connect app - bringing local data (soil and air temperatures, soil saturation, wind speed, evapotranspiration, spray windows, forecasts etc) to help inform land management decisions and raise awareness of land/water connectivity.  For access to the Weather App please get in touch with your local Catchment Advisor or email catchmentmanagement@anglianwater.co.uk.  Together we can all play a part in protecting raw water quality through greater catchment understanding.
  • Joining other landscape scale interested buyers to support farmers delivering Nature Based Solutions through Landscape Enterprise Networks (LEN's).