Funding

The total project expenditure will be approximately £16.4 million from 2008 to 2013.

Around £4.3m of this will come from the Rural Development Programme for England (RDPE) via the East of England Development Agency (EEDA). The Forestry Commission will provide a contribution of up to £25,000 per annum towards toward the project. 

Approximately £1.7m will be for woodland management from the Forestry Commission through the English Woodland Grant Scheme (EWGS)

The balance of funding will come from partners, both as cash or “in kind”, and from the matched funding contributions made by woodland owners and managers and micro enterprises in the woodfuel supply chain.