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Government Functional Standard GovS 015: Grants

The Grants Functional Standard promotes efficiency and effectiveness in grant making across all government departments and arm鈥檚 length bodies.

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The purpose of this government functional standard is to set expectations for the management of grants, and to promote efficient and effective grant making to ensure funding is used as intended and provides value for money through high quality delivery.

For further information and support, please contact the Government Grants Management Function (GGMF) at: [email protected]

Updates to this page

Published 2 December 2016
Last updated 1 May 2025 show all updates
  1. Updated some HTML files for latest best practices

  2. Updated some documents for current best practices

  3. Updated some HTML versions for most current best practice

  4. Updated PDF's for best practice

  5. Updated the following document '3: Complex Grants Advice Panel (CGAP)' to reflect the change in the mandatory referral for manifesto schemes.

  6. Updated the document: 7: Risk, Controls and Assurance

  7. Replaced the following file with the latest version: 7: Risk, Controls and Assurance

  8. Added PDF versions of the guidance documents.

  9. Added the document:m Grants Continuous Improvement Assessment Framework V1.1

  10. Replaced all documents with the latest versions. Added HTML versions of all documents

  11. Updated document 7: Risk, Controls and Assurance - added paragraph 23 to provide further information on security risks. Language around Fraud Risk Assessments has been strengthened to reflect the Grants Functional Standard.

  12. Updated document '3: Complex Grants Advice Panel (CGAP)'. Grants which fall under Carbon Net Zero, Levelling Up, Strengthening the Union, Innovation, and Jobs and Skills must be referred to the Complex Grants Advice Panel.

  13. Updated guidance Functional Standards

  14. Updated HTML doc

  15. Updated all documents attached.

  16. First published.

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