That the Cabinet Member:
a) notes the outputs of the review and agrees to amend the small grants criteria to include eligibility for mainstream technologies;
b) agrees to include the requirement to assess wider community benefits as part of the grant process, include monitoring of impacts; and
c) agrees to setting a nominal funding ceiling of £350,000 within the small grants strand of £500,000 for ‘mainstream technologies’ supported by regular monitoring information to the Programme Board to allow assessment of demand and impacts on the wider fund.