Grant fundraising has become increasingly competitive in recent years, so our consultants have shared some of their top bid writing tips that will help your bids stick out from the crowd.
Finding trusts, foundations and other grant funding opportunities for your charity can be tricky. In this guide we walk you through approaches that can fire up your fundraising through better grant funding prospect research.
How do fundraising consultants charge?
This is one of the first questions that many charities ask us. So, in this article we will briefly set out how fundraising consultants fees normally work.
If you aren’t targeting the right funding avenues with your current fundraising strategy then you’re wasting your resources. If you don’t have targets, you can’t measure your progress. If your team doesn’t have direction they won’t achieve their potential, or worse, they’ll leave. So, having a great fundraising strategy is crucial but how do you go about developing a strategy that will work and that you can implement?
There are many different ways to develop a fundraising strategy. It needs to be appropriate to the nature of your charity and proportionate to its size. It also needs to meet the objective –achieving existing funding needs, organisational growth to increase impact, or maybe a specific major project goal.
When we are developing a strategy for a client we take all this into account in planning our methodology. However, we wanted to make the following guide useful for as many charities as possible, so we are going to set out a general practical approach which should be appropriate for most established charities with a track record of fundraising who are seeking organisational growth.
Follow these steps and you’ll be on the right path to developing the strategy that your organisation needs and deserves!
Coastal Communities Fund – Round 5 is now open for applications in England.
The aim of the fund from the Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government is to support the economic development of coastal communities, through regeneration and economic growth whilst directly or indirectly safeguarding and creating sustainable jobs.
We are delighted to report that our funding successes have been coming thick and fast over recent months. Another £4 Million has been achieved by our consultants over the last 18 months, pushing our new all-time total over £33 Million.
