Funding Service
MHCLG's Funding Service is transforming how grants are delivered, saving time and money for the department and the communities we serve. As 2025 draws to a close, learn about the team's progress and ambitious plans for the new year, including creating a more joined up and integrated service that solves a whole problem for users.
Find out how the Funding Service transformed a complex monitoring spreadsheet into a user-friendly digital form, helping to reduce admin burden for local authorities and improve data quality for policy colleagues.
From launching their second grant 2 years ago to 5 grants in a single week, the MHCLG Funding Service has come a long way. Hear from grant relationship manager Craig Bevington on how the team supports cost-effective, consistent and user-focused grant delivery.
Delta is the main platform MHCLG uses to collect data and make payments. It helps the department make policy decisions, release national statistics and process payments to local authorities. Read how the Funding Service transformed Delta based on user needs.
Read about the work content designers in the Funding Service are doing to improve their grants glossary in order to ensure consistency and meet diverse user needs. Find out more about how they’re adding and refining definitions, collaborating across teams, testing updates to improve user experience and how you can get involved.
Policy professionals can learn a lot from the world of digital. In this blog post, Reuben, Policy Design Lead in MHCLG’s Funding Service team, shares insights he’s gained on user-centred design, agile working and cross-team collaboration.
MHCLG's Funding Service is transforming how grants are delivered. Find out how we're saving time and money for the department and the communities we serve.
Read about the work of MHCLG’s Funding Service to simplify the funding landscape by defining data standards for grant teams.
In the world of designing and launching new funds, guided self-service will allow grant teams in MHCLG to pick up and re-use established patterns to support grant delivery with minimal input from the department’s Funding Service. Read about examples of guided self-service and the reasons why it’s needed.
As government programmes continue to tackle many complex challenges, there is an opportunity to evolve our delivery approaches to ensure they are optimally structured to deal with complexity. This post discusses the idea of ‘adaptive funding’, influenced by agile methodologies.
