A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away a young project manager worked for a small-medium sized charity. She loved her job managing a small troup of humble support workers, farming away for the good … [Read more...]

Ever submitted an application that you thought was really good? One that met all the grant funder's criteria and, you believed, told a powerful, compelling story? One that was both the above, but … [Read more...]

Sometimes we believe only an expert can write a winning funding bid. I think that's baloney. I've seen novices write bids that got funded and supposedly nailed on bids from experts get rejected. … [Read more...]

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is best known as creator of the world’s first super-sleuth – Sherlock Holmes. But what’s less well known is he was also an incredibly versatile writer who could turn his hand to … [Read more...]

It’s easy to criticise health and social care services for how they involve users in their service improvement work. To criticise them for when their user participation is tokenistic, or when they … [Read more...]

What’s the most important part of your grant funding bid? What single thing will most affect how your bid assessor rates it? It’s how you begin it. Because even in the world of bid writing first … [Read more...]