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Tom Metcalf

How content design and teamwork contributed to Countryside Stewardship

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photo of fields and rolling hills

On World Environment Day we hear how colleagues from the Rural Payments Agency (RPA) worked with content designers from the Defra farming content team to improve the scheme guidance on GOV.UK, ahead of the launch of this year’s Countryside Stewardship (CS) schemes. 

Become a content designer in Defra’s future farming team

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Sue Agnew, Jenn Brookbanks and Tom Metcalf

Defra is recruiting content designers for its future farming programme. Sue Agnew, Jenn Brookbanks and Tom Metcalf recently joined the team. Read about their experience of the content design role and what they enjoy about it, to help you decide if this role is right for you. 

Volunteering: Part one - trees and canals

Bluetit sat on a person's hand

To mark international volunteering day, Defra’s user centred design (UCD) team talk about what inspired them to take part in volunteering days and how they went. This is our first instalment of a two-part blog on volunteering.