Funding Service: Defining data standards for grant teams
Read about the work of MHCLG’s Funding Service to simplify the funding landscape by defining data standards for grant teams.
Funding Service
Funding Service: why combining self-service with a human touch works best 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.
Adaptive funding: 8 ways to make funding effective in solving complex problems
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Reuben Kenton-Harris, Policy Design Lead, Posted on:
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Funding Service, Policy design
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.
Applying user ecosystem thinking in the Funding Service
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Ben Sprung, Policy Lead and Nicole Aleong, Senior User Researcher, Posted on:
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Design, Funding Service
In this post, a policy lead and a user researcher discuss the concept of user ecosystem thinking and how it can be applied by designers in their day-to-day work. This concept and the practical activities we discuss in this post are derived from the book ‘Rethinking Users: A Design Guide to User Ecosystem Thinking’.
Join the Funding Service team
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Ruth Keeling, Service Owner, Funding Service, Posted on:
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Careers, Funding Service
The Funding Service team is hiring! Do you work in engineering, user research or interaction design, and are looking for a fulfilling and impactful career opportunity? Join us online, meet our teams and potentially get hired.
Funding Service: Using content design to reduce the burden on applicants
Read about how content design was used in the Funding Service team to create question protocols, a more efficient way to get content signed off, and to reduce the burden on fund teams and applicants.
Local authorities: join our research panel and improve our funding service
The Funding Service team is a multi-disciplinary group working hard to transform the delivery of funding to local authorities, charities, community groups, and others across the UK. As part of our work, we’re inviting local authorities to join our funding service research panel.
My experience as a Software Developer
Hi, I’m Gideon, I work as a Lead Developer. Our digital teams are growing, and we have great job opportunities nationwide for a range of roles.
Building a reusable service for government funds
DLUHC’s Funding Service team are celebrating this month after our new Access funding tool launched the latest round of the Community Ownership Fund and, just a week later, a new round of the Night Shelter Transformation Fund.
How we put our users at the heart of our vision
At the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC) one of our core roles is to award funding to organisations who do the detailed delivery work to achieve policy objectives. For example, the Towns fund delivers £3.6 billion to …
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