Key Dates
Small Grants Efficiency
- Opens 3 March 2025
- Closes 11 April 2025
Single Application Form (SAF) 2025 available on RPW Online
- Opens 3 March 2025
- Closes 5 May 2025 or 9 June 2025 with late penalties
Small Grants - Woodland Creation
- Opens 3 March 2025
- Closes 11 April 2025
Single Application Form (SAF) 2025
Single Application Form (SAF) 2025 is available on your RPW Online account. The deadline for submitting your SAF is midnight 15 May 2025, or by 9 June 2025 with late penalties. A SAF cannot be submitted or accepted after 9 June 2025.
Please ensure that you read the 2025 Single Application Rules booklet and the How to Complete guide before completing your application and make sure that you are familiar with the changes and how they may apply to your BPS claim.
The SAF 2025 must be used to claim payment for:
- Basic Payment Scheme (BPS), including Young Farmer and
- to apply to the National Reserve for an allocation of entitlements if you so wish.
The following Rural Investment Schemes where you have a contract/or grant award letter must be claimed on the SAF 2025 Single Application Form (SAF) 2025.
- Habitat Wales scheme (HWS)
- Organic Conversion Scheme (OCS)
- Woodland Creation Premium (WCP)
- Woodland Creation Maintenance (WCM)
Completing SAF 2025
If you haven’t already completed your form you are advised to plan to complete your online SAF as soon as possible using the available guidance.
If you have completed your form/or when you do complete the form it is important that you check the copy of your application, the summary and any sketch maps that you have submitted on RPW online to ensure that you have claimed for all the schemes / land that you wish to claim for.
Organic Support Scheme 2025
Application for payment must be made through the SAF 2025 due for submission by the 15 May 2026
Rural Development Woodland Creation scheme payments must be claimed on the SAF 2025
- Glastir Woodland Creation Premium (GWCP)
- Glastir Woodland Maintenance (GCM)
- Glastir Woodland Creation Premium (GCP).
Transfer of BPS Entitlements 2025
The 2025 transfer window of BPS entitlements is open, with Transfer of Entitlements forms available on the RPW Online account.
Cross Compliance 2025
Cross Compliance Factsheets and Verifiable Standards have been updated for 2025 to reflect changes to the requirements from 1 January 2025, good practice and to clarify wording. The revised documents are available at: gov.wales/cross-compliance-2025
The vast majority of Cross Compliance rules continue to apply as in 2024; however, you should regularly check and review the Cross Compliance regulations to ensure you remain compliant.
SAF Digital Assistance
Our Regional Offices are open to the public strictly by appointment only. If you need additional support, particularly if you are completing the SAF for the first time the Customer Contact Centre can provide telephone support. The Customer Contact Centre can also make a ‘Digital Assistance’ appointment, if necessary, for you to attend a Regional Office where a member of staff can guide you through the process.
RPW Online - GOV.UK One Login
Rural Payments Wales (RPW) has developed a new system for customers to access RPW Online using GOV.UK One Login. As all individuals using RPW Online will need their own login information, please ensure in advance all individual details are up to date and correct on your RPW Online account Individual Details tab. RPW wrote to customers in February 2025 regarding the implementation of One Login.