Grant & Scheme Engine
Scheme Engine: Case Studies
Worked examples showing how the module is used in practice.
The examples below are illustrative worked cases built from the module design. Named customer references are published only with written consent.
Worked example
How a business like yours would use Scheme Engine
The problem: Wants the highest-value compliant combination, calculated not guessed.
What they do
- Establish the business and holding identity
- Import land, cropping and livestock records
- Run eligibility across all four nations
- Model income under competing options
What changes
- Value of scheme income secured per business
- Applications submitted before window close
- Deadline miss rate
This is an illustrative worked example built from the module design, not a customer reference. Named case studies are published only with the business's written consent.
In the field
Scheme engine, as it actually looks
Photography from working UK holdings alongside the interface that records it. Every frame below is a commissioned slot: the brief is stated until the photograph is taken.
Scheme Engine — a walkthrough
A working pass through scheme engine: entering the record once, and watching it appear in the evidence pack, the calendar and the scheme application without being typed again.
- 0:00 What the module is for
- 0:48 Entering the record
- 2:05 Where it appears next
- 3:20 The evidence pack
Photography slots state their own brief until the shot is commissioned, so the layout never shifts when real images arrive.
What we are hearing
The problems people describe to us
These are composite statements drawn from user research conversations, not attributed customer quotes. We publish named references only with written consent.
I am not short of software. I am short of one place where the same field means the same thing in all of it.
The scheme closed on a Tuesday evening. I had the application half built. Nobody told me the budget was nearly gone.
We farm on both sides of the border. Everything takes twice as long and I still cannot see the whole position on one screen.
Audit week costs me three days. Every single record they ask for is already written down somewhere on this farm.
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- Capabilities in this module
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- Interactive tools
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- Linked support schemes
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- Data integrations
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- Measures reported
Measurement
How you will know it is working
The module reports against these measures from the day it is switched on, so the value is demonstrable rather than assumed.
- 01Value of scheme income secured per business
- 02Applications submitted before window close
- 03Deadline miss rate
- 04Optimiser uplift against self-selected actions
- 05Evidence requirements met without manual assembly
- 06Payment reconciliation variance
Obligation calendar
What scheme engine asks of you, and when
Windows, deadlines and recurring obligations for England. Set a different nation and the calendar reconfigures; farm across a border and it shows both, reconciled.
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January 1 entry
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11 January: Scottish Base and Enhanced Level Direct Payments
Annual application, single application form.
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March 3 entries
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3 March: Run eligibility across all four nations
A recurring step in scheme engine.
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15 March: Import land, cropping and livestock records
A recurring step in scheme engine.
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16 March: Farm Sustainability Payment
Application from early March with a deadline in mid-May.
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May 1 entry
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26 May: Sustainable Farming Scheme
Scheme year runs to 31 December, with the single application form deadline in mid-May.
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June 3 entries
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5 June: Farming Transformation Fund
Round-based by theme.
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6 June: Model income under competing options
A recurring step in scheme engine.
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15 June: Sustainable Farming Incentive 2026
Two windows in 2026: window one from 30 June, window two from September.
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July 1 entry
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14 July: Slurry Infrastructure Grant
Round-based.
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August 1 entry
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2 August: Establish the business and holding identity
A recurring step in scheme engine.
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October 1 entry
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5 October: Farming Equipment and Technology Fund
Round-based, usually open for a defined application period.
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November 2 entries
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12 November: Improving Farm Productivity Grant
Round-based.
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27 November: Environmental Land Management Capital Grants
Round-based, with rapid allocation once open.
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December 1 entry
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26 December: Countryside Stewardship
Rolling and round-based depending on the tier and option group.
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Government cannot currently see, in real time, where its own farming budget is going. A scheme was closed overnight because the cap had been reached, and hundreds of millions of pounds went unspent over three years because replacement schemes were not ready. The evidence for change is government's own.
See Scheme Engine running on your own holding
Thirty minutes, using your parcels, your schemes and your enterprises rather than a sample farm. No obligation and no sales script — if it does not fit your business we will say so.
- Free tier available
- No card required
- Your data stays yours