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Labour councillor Rosy Moore, from Cambridge City Council, which is the lead authority, said: "We've been so successful that all of our [grant] money is booked to be spent, as it were, that's all in the pipeline.
"So we've actually written to the department and asked if they could extend it for us because our partnership is working so well."
Brain said he learned of the scheme through a representative at the door.
"We were very sceptical, but we went online and we checked them out, and then we checked whether it was a legitimate thing through the government website," he said.
"We registered, and then we got a call from a contractor that had been appointed, they came and did a survey, and we were still very, very sceptical, but we worked through the process.
"They answered the questions. There was no hard sell or a hard push, and because they'd satisfied my scepticism, we went ahead."
Asked if he thought it was too good to be true and a scam, Brain said: "All the way through, to be honest with you... it was only at the end, once the process had been done and they'd sent me the handover package, that I thought, 'Well, you know, it does seem too good to be true, but you know, we were a beneficiary from it, thankfully.'"
