Win More Grants and Funding Applications – How to Prepare and Manage a Grant Application
Overview
This Win More Grants and Funding Applications training will give you practical support that will help you to improve your success rate when writing grant and funding applications. It will give you the knowledge you need to write grant applications and proposals with more confidence.
Whether you are a seasoned grant application writer or are new to the process, we can show you how to streamline this extremely challenging and time-consuming activity. You will gain a good understanding of the overall process, how grants and funding applications are scored, and how to manage and write your content well, to get maximum scores. The overall aim is to win grants and funding applications, bringing new funding into your organisation in an efficient and effective way.
This course will walk you through all the stages of the grant and/or funding application writing process so that you understand how to write good grant and funding applications, how to get the best scores and best practice in the industry. Grant and funding applications are usually subject to time, budget, and quality constraints, and you will learn what these are and how to work around them.
This training is interactive and uses case studies, discussions, exercises and break out rooms to help you practice new skills and polish existing ones. Your trainer will also have time to answer your specific questions.
Learning Outcomes:
- Find suitable grant and funding opportunities for their organisation.
- Assess funding opportunities and make informed bid/no bid decisions.
- Understand how funders evaluate applications and maximise scoring opportunities.
- Prepare their organisation with the information and evidence needed before writing begins.
- Plan and structure persuasive funding applications that clearly demonstrate need and impact.
- Write clear, compelling and evidence-based responses that improve the likelihood of success.
- Apply practical project management techniques to manage grant applications efficiently from start to finish.
- Work effectively with colleagues and subject matter experts to gather accurate and relevant information.
- Develop a longer-term approach to securing funding through capture planning and continuous improvement.
Agenda
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Registration
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Welcome and Overview
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Part 1. Finding the Right Funding Opportunities
- Understanding how grant funding works
- The grant application journey from start to finish
- Where to find grants and funding opportunities
- Deciding which opportunities are worth pursuing
- Understanding funders’ priorities and assessment criteria
- Exercise – Writing an effective introduction
- Developing and maintaining a bid library
- Exercise – Increasing your chances of success
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Break
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Part 2.
Writing persuasive Grant Applications
- Common reasons applications fail
- Planning strong, persuasive responses
- Identifying and articulating outcomes and outputs
- Exercise – Identifying different outcomes for your organisation
- Identifying the need for your project.
- Structuring answers for clarity and maximum impact
- Writing techniques that increase your chances of success
- Incorporating benefits statements
- Building a realistic and credible project budget
- Exercise – Think Like a Funder
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Lunch
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Part 3. Bid application management planning
- Best practice and project management tools for funding applications.
- How to manage tasks against time and budget restraints.
- Getting your subject matter experts onboard and productive.
- Managing clarifications and reducing submission risks.
- Understand the importance of a review process
- Exercise – Sharing bid management best practice.
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Break
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Part 4. Making it work for you and your organisation
- Building a long-term approach to bidding.
- Using feedback to drive continual improvement.
- A format for case studies – the ultimate evidence.
- What is capture planning and using it to prepare for upcoming opportunities.
- Creating a culture of continuous improvement.
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Trainers Summary and Close
- Summary – ten tips for writing
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Questions and Answers
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- Public Sector £550 + VAT
- Private Sector £620 + VAT
- Voluntary Sector £480 + VAT
Trainer
Alison Reeves
Alison has been writing bids for over 25 years and has a background in training, technical writing, marketing and copywriting. Her clients span several business sectors including IT, Commercial Cleaning, Security, Manufacturing, NHS and Social Care and are made up of a variety of clients including large multi-nationals, SMEs, family businesses and Charities. She also helps clients win funding and grant applications.
Alison has long been passionate about supporting organisations to write their own bids and has run 100s of training courses over the last 15 years. She also helps her clients to build effective bid libraries and content.
