Mr. Paul Beattie:

On the small grants front, we did a bit of engagement work, probably about a year and a half or two years ago. It was piecemeal, scratch-the-surface stuff. The groups that we engaged to do the work had contacts in the wider community and it was about identifying some of the barriers to them coming forward to previous European funds.

Sometimes it is administrative, community background or they just do not want to know. The 500 quid from the local council is much easier to get. We have earmarked the sort of groups we want come to forward under this programme. We have engaged much more with councils on both sides of the Border to say the small grants are coming. You cannot do small grants under current local authority programmes but we expect a co-design process to be in place to attract a lot of smaller groups which have not been involved before. The proof of the pudding will be in the eating. In the first year a lot of already-knowns will come forward, but the osmosis of those grants trickling out over the next couple of years should attract more groups. We are going to engage what I call a boots-on-the-ground organisation which has to go to open tender. We know the sort of applicants that might come forward so I will not say much more. They are organisations with close-to-the-ground community linkages. We will never capture everybody but I think on this occasion we will capture as many as we can.