MONEY and materials for farmers and landowners to carry out projects such as restoring hedges and field walls, enhancing rivers and eradicating Japanese knot weed are available in a new grants scheme operated by the Lake District National Park Authority.

The scheme, called CASH - standing for Countryside Advice, Supplies and Help - brings together the authority's Countryside Conservation Grant Scheme and the Work on the Ground Scheme.

So far, £13,000 has been allocated under the scheme.