Preparing Successful Funding Applications
Publication date : 01/11/2009
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Written and supported by Action Planning as part of our
Essential Guides collection, this guide aims to help you
identify what should be included in your application and
what you can do to make your application more successful
The main sources of institutional funding for not-for-profit organisations in the UK are grant-making trusts, corporations, statutory and Lottery distributors. Applications to institutional funders can be very cost effective and, with the right approach, can gain significant amounts of funding. However, being truly successful with your approach is both “easy and difficult”.
These institutions are not simply open cash points ready to hand out money. You will be competing against lots of other well-written applications, and most funding bodies receive far more applications than they are able to fund. Therefore, it takes a certain amount of skill, time, judgement and a degree of luck to be successful.
The main difficulty with issuing guidelines about writing successful funding applications is that there are many different types of funding institutions, each with different sets of criteria for giving away funds. No book or set of guidelines can give a definitive guide to how to write the perfect application, but the advice below will give you some general pointers which should help the beginner.
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