Grants Centre of Excellence

The Grants Centre of Excellence (CoE) website is a single point of access to policy, guidance, templates, latest news, and access to training to support civil servants and the wider public sector through the six step grants process.  All government grants practitioners can access the website and can join the Grants Community of Practice via the specific COP page.

Available to: Central Government, ALB’s and Local Authorities
Who to Contact: Would you like to know more? Please email: ggmfcapabilityteam@cabinetoffice.gov.uk

Grants Competency Framework Self Assessment Tool

This tool has been developed to support grant practitioners with their learning within grant management. The tool is aligned with the core competencies identified in the Grants Competency Framework and allows the practitioner to determine learning needs based on their strengths and areas of development.

Available to: Central Government and ALB’s
Who to Contact: Would you like to know more? Please email: ggmfcapabilityteam@cabinetoffice.gov.uk

Grants Licence to Practise

The Grants Licence to Practise is a comprehensive course. This five day residential programme is designed to equip a grants practitioner with the confidence and expertise to manage grant schemes across the grants lifecycle. It is suitable for new, inexperienced grant makers. Following successful completion of the course, the practitioner will take an assessment in order to become an accredited grants practitioner.  

Coming soon –  The GGMF will be offering a brand new online course, known as Licence to Practise Online Pathway (LtPOP).  This course will cover the same content and learning objectives as the residential course, but in a more self-directed and knowledge based format. It is specifically for those with existing expertise wanting to consolidate their knowledge.
For further details, please see the relevant Centre of Excellence page here.

Available to: Central Government and ALB’s
Who to Contact: Would you like to know more? Please email: ggmfcapabilityteam@cabinetoffice.gov.uk

Government Grants Management Function

The Government Grants Management Function (GGMF) works with stakeholders across the grants function to help ensure the effectiveness of grant funding and the efficiency of grant administration across government.

Available to: Central Government and ALB’s
Who to Contact: For support, please email grants-management-function@cabinetoffice.gov.uk

The Complex Grants Advice Panel (CGAP)

The Complex Grant Advice Panel (CGAP) provides expert advice and support to government departments and arm’s-length bodies (ALBs) involved in the development and administration of grant schemes. 
For more details, please see here.

Available to: Central Government and ALB’s
Who to Contact: For support, please email cgap@cabinetoffice.gov.uk

Spotlight

Spotlight automates grant and contract due diligence checks, enabling government funding to be distributed faster and more efficiently. In Spotlight you can run checks on any UK limited company, charity, sole trader or non-limited partnership as well as non-UK based organisations. 
By providing real time information from a range of government and commercial data sources, Spotlight allows you to easily risk assess a supplier or grant applicant including any linked directors, companies and beneficial owners.

Available to: All Government Organisations
Who to Contact: Please email spotlight@cabinetoffice.gov.uk for more information, arrange a demo or enquire about licences. 

Spotlight Confidential

Spotlight Confidential is a programme that aims to provide improved capability for HMG users that broadens existing due diligence checks carried out using Spotlight to broaden national security checks. The national security checks will inform users’ responses in relation to assessing risks posed by entities of interest, including preventing government funding being used by those who wish to do the UK and its interests harm

Available to: Central Government Security Community
Who to Contact: Business Relationship Manager barbara.bankole@cabinetoffice.gov.uk

Grants Continuous Improvement Assessment Framework (GCIAF)

The Grants Continuous Improvement Assessment Framework (GCIAF) has been developed to help drive continuous improvement in grant practices across the public sector.

Available to: Central Grant Makers
Who to Contact: If you’d like to know more, please email grants.ciaf@cabinetoffice.gov.uk.

Find a Grant/Apply for a Grant

For Government – a mandated, centralised and easy to use service that reduces cost and effort associated with grant advertising and application processes. Opens up competition and drives up quality of applications and data. Through API to Spotlight is a way to protect against fraud. Through open API is easy to integrate with all services.
For citizens – a centralised place to search and apply for all general (competed or criteria-based) Government grant funding.

Available to: UK government and Local Authorities as well as ALBs
Who to Contact: For support email FindAGrant@cabinetoffice.gov.uk

NSRU – National Security Risk Unit

The National Security Risk Unit provides advice, analysis and insight to safeguard and mitigate against threats and vulnerabilities against those who wish to do the UK and its interests harm.

Available to: All Government Organisations
Who to Contact: Would you like to know more? Please email the team at nsru.commissions@cabinetoffice.gov.uk

Government Grants Information System (GGIS)

A database used to store and publish annual grants spend as transparency statistics. Mandated across the central government, it is used as the definitive source  of grant awards.

Available to: Central Government Grant Makers
Who to Contact: Would you like to know more? Please email: grantshubsupport@cabinetoffice.gov.uk

CASIE

A data lake comprising numerous APIs from departmental finance systems. This pulls contracts and recipients into one place, highlighting both total contract amounts and total spend amounts.

Available to: Central Government Grant Makers
Who to Contact: Please email dsi@cabinetoffice.gov.uk

Government Grants Managed Services

A two-year programme to pilot a technology-enabled, end-to-end managed service for grants management. It delivers a Government Grants Managed Service that provides the set-up, management and delivery of grant awards and related processes (e.g. competitions) with no extra cost to participating departments/schemes during the pilot phase.

Available to: Central Government Grant Makers and ALBs
Who to Contact: Would you like to know more, please email govgrantsmanagedservice@cabinetoffice.gov.uk