A grant-in-aid is money coming from central government for a specific project. This kind of funding is usually used when the government and parliament have decided that the recipient should be publicly funded but operate with reasonable independence from the State. Most bodies in receipt of grants-in-aid are non-departmental public bodies. A grant-in-aid is the money allocated by one level of government to another level of government to be used for specific purposes. They usually have requiremen… (More on Grant-in-aid)