The phrase "a small scheme" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a minor plan or arrangement, often with a connotation of being simple or not extensive.
Example: "The team proposed a small scheme to improve office morale, which included weekly team lunches."
Alternatives: "a minor plan" or "a simple strategy".
It started out as a small scheme in Oxford, and has now spread across the country.
Up the coast in Blackpool, a small scheme was launched last year by a firm called Hourbike.
This is why I have decided that modesty must go out the window, and why I write to stand up for a small scheme with a big heart.
America already has a small scheme of this type for older workers in industries hit by foreign competition.Critics of wage subsidies usually cite two drawbacks: they distort incentives and they are expensive.
Sadly noting my students' current practice of selling their books back to the campus bookstore at the end of the term, I have devised a small scheme, a countermeasure: I buy very beautiful little bookplates, inscribe them individually with the student's name and then hand these out to everyone on the last day of class.
A small scheme using mine water to heat 17 houses in Shettleston has been running for more than 10 years.
Ironically, a smaller scheme could also have significant environmental impact, while being too small to help much in the energy mix and hived off entirely to the private sector to boot.
"Indeed, we suggest that it might be worth exploring a smaller scheme initially where the impact would be less dramatic".
The final option would see a smaller scheme run where the cameras currently are and use others across the city.
"In response," he said, "we have submitted plans for a smaller scheme with fewer wind turbines, with a capacity of 630MW.
A third option would see the cameras taken down and a smaller scheme implemented using 35 ANPR and 22 CCTV cameras.
