Last year, it received an initial 50,000 project grant from the heritage lottery fund and was encouraged to apply for a further 1.5m.

The schools which the winners attend also receives a project grant to spend on facilities such as computer equipment.

In order to receive a project grant, the grant must meet certain standards and qualifications and the recipient must be eligible for the grant.

Those plans have been put on hold due to the project grant monies being re-directed.

Using highly unusual language, the reviewers called the proposal a paradigm of what a program project grant should be.