Capability · Grants & Bursaries

Grants & Bursaries

Grants & Bursaries needs accountable ownership, connected evidence and explicit approvals rather than disconnected spreadsheets.

Audience

Grants officersfunderscommitteesfinance

Workflow

  1. 01Mandatory/discretionary funding windows
  2. 02Eligibility, due diligence and WSP/ATR records
  3. 03Scoring, conflicts, adjudication and appeals
  4. 04Awards, conditions, contracts and entitlements
  5. 05Claims, amendments, clawbacks and impact closeout
Core features

What it covers

Records and tasks

  • Mandatory/discretionary funding windows
  • Eligibility, due diligence and WSP/ATR records

Control and approvals

  • Scoring, conflicts, adjudication and appeals
  • Awards, conditions, contracts and entitlements

Oversight

  • Claims, amendments, clawbacks and impact closeout
  • Owner, due date, version history and exception reasons

Intelligence

Rules validate policy and required evidence; analytics flags exceptions; AI drafts evidence-grounded summaries for human review.

Integrations

Design scope only: governed exchange with authorised external systems; no live connector verified.

Workflow example

Illustrative Data

Illustrative: an assigned grants officers reviews missing evidence, records a reason and routes the case to an independent approver before closure.

Outcomes

  • Evidence completeness
  • Approval turnaround
  • Outstanding exceptions
Control model

Records become accountable work

Design intentions, not independently verified operational controls.

Ownership & permissions
Assigned Grants officers, funders, committees, finance work only within authorised tenant, programme and record scopes.
Rules & approvals
Required evidence, policy versions, delegated authority and independent review gate consequential changes. Missing evidence returns to the owner.
Audit & reporting
Record who changed what, when and why. Measure evidence completeness, queue age, approval turnaround and unresolved exceptions rather than invent performance results.
The golden thread

From allocation to a verified outcome

Illustrative Data

01 / 8 · National 3,000-learner programme

Funder

Accountable owner
Funder
Evidence & records
Illustrative target: 3,000 learners, budget and outcomes
Rule & approval gate
Funding conditions and targets approved
Reporting KPI
Enrolment against 3,000 target; verified completion
Next action
Implementer
Permission boundary
Assigned programme and records only; cross-party sharing requires explicit authorisation.

Review exceptions before progressing

Website demonstration of intended workflows. No real records, approvals, credentials or payments are processed.

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