Example Successful UK Charity Grant Funding Application Template

You can use this example template to write your case for support and use this to quickly and easily submit charity grant funding applications.  It'll not only enable you to write funding applications more quickly but also make your bids more successful too.

Charity Funding Application Case for Support - Benefits

Creating a charity case for support to use as a template for funding applications has a number of benefits.

• You can copy and paste, then amend much of your case for support for for each grant funding application, making writing funding proposals quicker.
• Your grant applications should be more successful because you present the best funding proposal each time - the information is clear and consistent.
• It can also be used as template for a briefing sheet that can be used by those meeting with grant makers and responding to questions, to ensure they are fully briefed.

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How To Write Your Charity Grant Funding Bid Proposal - Template

Quality always counts in writing fundraising grant proposals, so here's a template that will enable you to how to write a simple, compelling fundraising case for your charity.

Grant Funding Application - Funder Requirements

Each funder has different application requirements.  For example, they may restrict applications to particular types of organisations, or causes, income bands or locations.  Funders may also have priorities.  For example, certain groups of people, or those who are disadvantaged or discriminated against, or they may favour particular types of grant applications, such as projects that are innovative, or sustainable.  You must comply with the grant makers requirements and, if they have priorities that are relevant to your charity's funding application, reflect this in your funding application.   This will ensure your bid isn't rejected and will make it more likely to be successful.

Funding Application - Style

This is an entirely internal document and, as it covers all your activities, will be longer than most grant funding bids. Nonetheless, it is important that it is:

• Succinct.  That is, the application is briefly and clearly expressed, and will be understood by those reading it.  Grant makers receive lots of grant applications and are often volunteers. A long funding bid is less likely to be read as thoroughly and the key points more difficult to pick up.
• Compelling – include data and arguments that very clearly make the case.
• Urgent – there is huge need across the sector and a funding application for work that isn’t essential now may well not be considered a priority.
• Emotionally Engaging – people give because they want to help others, so don’t simply rely on facts and data.  Tell your fundraising story in a human way.
  • Keep it jargon free and any acronyms should either be in common use or have been explained.

Grant Funding Application - Content

Information to be included in your funding application:

• Background information on your charity and its activities.
• Explain what the need is and why addressing this is not only important, but also urgent.
• How you will meet the needs of your beneficiaries and the impact this will have on their lives.
• Evidence your work with examples of recent successes, to demonstrate:
  • Your ability to deliver,
  • The impact your charity is having and;
  • Why your charity is the best organisation to make this difference.
    • Outline what will happen (or not happen), if your work does not go ahead and the impact this will have.
    • Identify how much money you need to raise and over what timescale. It can be helpful to have a costed shopping basket of fundable items.

How to Write Charity Grant Funding Proposal - Good Practice

• Explaining the challenges and urgency helps to make the case for your funding application, but an unremittingly negative picture doesn't. Donors want to know that their funding will make a real difference, so paint a positive picture that makes clear what this will be.
• Avoid jargon and waffle by using clear and simple language. Ever heard anyone say they enjoyed reading business speak? Me neither.
• If you need to use acronyms that aren't commonly understood, explain them the first time you do. Do you know what BBSRC stands for? I didn't - see below, if you really want to know.
• Ensure your funding application facts and figures are accurate and include sources, so that you can respond to any queries on where these came from and demonstrate these are robust.
• You may wish to consider uploading your charity case for support into Drop Box or similar and giving access to those who might need it. You might also upload relevant reports, in case they may wish to access these.
• You might also use hyperlinks to these and relevant online documents, referred to in your core case, so people can very quickly and easily click through to more detailed information if they want to.
• Nominate an individual to take ownership of your charity case for support and ensure that it is kept up-to-date.
• Ensure that your funding applications portray your beneficiaries is the way in which they would wish to be.
• Be mindful of data protection by ensuring that you have informed consent to include any personal information on an individual in your application, if this is something you wish to do.
• No funding proposal is ever perfect and many organisations are facing real difficulties, so you may wish to think through in advance and provide properly considered responses to any potentially challenging questions you might subsequently be asked.
• Give the final draft application to someone and ask them to critique it, so you can be confident that you’ve captured all the key issues and there are no mistakes or blind spots in your thinking.

Using Your Funding Case For Support

Once your funding Case for Support has been written, use it as a basis for preparing fundraising materials, adapting it to suit the intended audience and the method that will be used to communicate with potential donors.

Ensure that those who will be meeting or communication with grant makers have access to this, so that they can respond quickly and effectively, and information is provided consistently to donors by everyone on the team.

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BBSRC

BBSRC – Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council.