- Develop Fund purposes and/or priorities, if these are not already in place.
- Ring-fence a percentage of funds to projects that meet specific Fund purposes/priorities that have not been sufficiently well funded to date (and where there is a clearly further need) or state that only projects meeting those outcomes will be funded for a specified period or until further notice.
- Reduce the maximum grant size, encouraging applicants to reduce project costs by improving efficiency, seeking funds elsewhere, or reducing the scale of their projects.
- Close the Fund for a period, encouraging prospective applicants to seek funding elsewhere.
- Specify new or tighten existing horizontal criteria, for example stating that only proposals with a robust plan for sustainability beyond the grant period, or those that can evidence a stated minimum level of matched funding, will be considered.
- Close the Fund to certain types of project or applicant, for example where the impact from these is unproven or where a significant number have previously received funding.
Where any of the above changes are introduced, they must be adequately communicated to ensure the Fund continues to be operated in a fair and transparent way.
