Tree Health Pilot

Eligibility

• —General eligibility The THP scheme is open to people in certain regions of England who manage specific trees or woodlands infected by specific pests and diseases.To take part in the pilot scheme, the trees or woodlands you, or your group (if relevant), manage must have one or more of the following: larch trees with Phytophthora ramorum spruce with a statutory plant health notice (SPHN) for Ips typographus (eight-toothed spruce bark beetle) or that are growing in the proactive spruce removal area sweet chestnut trees with Phytophthora ramorum or sweet chestnut blight oak trees with oak processionary moth (OPM) in the established area ash trees with ash dieback The trees or woodlands must be in one of these regions of England (or include spruce with a SPHN for Ipstypographus): North West West Midlands South East London If you’re not sure which region your trees or woodlands are in, check the Area and Woodland Officer boundaries map or contact your area office .Each grant has specific eligibility requirements as outlined on GOV.UK here .
• —General grant requirements Your grant application must have a minimum funding value of £500.
• —Check your eligibility for each grant and the payment rates in the relevant guidance .Do not spend money on any pilot activities before you have signed a grant agreement.
• —If you do the work before the agreement is signed, you will lose the opportunity to get a grant.
• —If you already get other funding If you get funding from other agri-environment or woodl

About this grant

The Tree Health Pilot (THP) scheme is testing different ways of slowing the spread of pests and diseases affecting trees in England. It expands on support available through the Countryside Stewardship Woodland Tree Health grant. The THP supports owners and managers of trees in woodland or trees outside woodland to deal with tree health issues. Funding from the pilot can go towards a range of measures including: felling and treating diseased or infested trees and necessary infrastructure improvements; restocking with new trees and capital items to assist this; maintenance of newly planted trees biosecurity items. he Tree Health Pilot guidance on GOV.UK sets out the aims of the pilot in detail including eligibility and application details. If you’re applying for trees in a woodland, the group of trees you’re applying for must: Trees outside of woodlands are any trees or small woods which cover an area of less than 0.5 hectares. For example, trees in hedgerows, along a road or in parks. This grant supports a facilitator bringing together a group of people, to better understand the risks and hazards of oak processionary moth on their trees in the Established Area (see the map of the Established Area within London and the South East).