How to make a capital or revenue claim

Read the guidance to help you claim payment for Countryside Stewardship agreements that started before 2025, and for capital items.

For Countryside Stewardship Higher Tier agreements starting from 2025, you must submit an annual declaration. You do not need to submit an annual claim form. Read section 16.1 ‘Submit your annual declaration’ in the CSHT agreement holder’s guide.

The final deadline for submitting your revenue claim and any supporting evidence has now passed.

We will not pay claims that are submitted after 11.59pm on 1 September 2026, unless exceptional circumstances apply.

If this is the first year of your agreement, you must submit a revenue claim in 2026.

You can claim online using the Rural Payments service. Once you’ve signed in, select ‘View business’ then scroll down the business overview to ‘Countryside Stewardship claims’.

On the Countryside Stewardship claims screen, click the button ‘Annual Declaration’ to make your annual revenue claim.

You can then use the on-screen ‘Help’ link to take you through each process step-by-step.

If you’re unable to claim online, contact RPA by phone or email to request a revenue claim form.

Send your completed form, supporting documents and evidence (where relevant) to us by post or email using our contact details.

To claim for capital items in a Countryside Stewardship Higher Tier (CSHT) agreement that started from 2025, read section 16.2: ‘Claim for your capital items’ in the CSHT agreement holder’s guide.

For other capital items, you can submit your claim at any time of year. This must be:

before or within 3 months of the Claim by Date of the capital item, you can check this in your agreement document - a late claim reduction will apply if the claim is received after this date

We will apply late claim reductions as follows:

claim submitted up to 1 month after Claim by Date – 5% reduction

claim submitted 1 to 2 months after Claim by Date – 10% reduction

claim submitted 2 to 3 months after Claim by Date – 25% reduction