The phrase "a direct grant" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to funding, financial assistance, or legal agreements where a grant is provided without conditions or intermediaries.
Example: "The organization received a direct grant from the government to support its community programs."
Alternatives: "an outright grant" or "a straightforward grant".
The other is a direct grant from the State Legislature for $50,000.
In each of these cases, the money was a direct grant – with no onus on the companies to repay the donations, regardless of how profitable the grants become.
But both boys were sent to board at King Alfred's, a direct grant school in Wantage where Ricks ended up as head boy.
Now, rather than get a direct grant from Edinburgh, the charity will be given up to £50,000 for the next three years from criminals' cash confiscated under proceeds of crime legislation.
He started, he points out, from a coal mining family, benefited from a direct grant school and left the University of Cambridge at a time when education fees were paid by the state.
"These huge agency bills, nurses going to food banks – this is not a great place to be," says Davies, who is Bolton-born and was educated at a direct grant school.
I went to a direct-grant school where you were made to feel special.
He was born in Brentford, Middlesex: like her, his parents were grocers and, like her, he owed his education to a grammar school – in his case, Latymer Upper school, west London, a direct-grant establishment.
In 1944, when Brazil was coming to the end of her life, the new Education Act furnished able girls from the middling middle classes with a free education at either a direct-grant or grammar school, leaving boarding public schools such as Benenden, the model for Malory Towers, to a financial and social elite.
The status was introduced by the Education Act 1944 as a modification of an existing direct grant scheme to privately endowed schools.
The World Service is to be funded directly from the BBC licence fee, along with BBC Monitoring, rather than a Foreign Office direct grant, from 1 April.
