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Successfully Writing Applications, Grants and Proposals

Effectively Apply and Receive Funding

Chaired by
Sue Calthorpe

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Overview

Organisations need future investment to continue operating and delivering vital services. To gain these investments, organisations need to know how to apply for funding through bids, applications or proposals.

As the March budget and end of the financial year draw near, our Successfully Writing Applications, Grants and Proposals training course is perfectly timed to meet your needs.

This course will help improve your competitive edge and receive that much needed support to scope what kind of funding is available and ensure you answer application requirements effectively.

Through interactive exercises and guidance from our bid writing expert, Sue Calthorpe, hone your writing skills to improve your applications’ success rate.

Leave the day with greater confidence in your ability to ascertain and acquire the relevant funding for your organisation.

Media & Communications Specialist

Susan works with organisations and individuals to improve their written communications skills.

She worked as a regional and national newspaper journalist before setting up a full-service communications company, now established for 30 years.

She works with public and private sector organisations to help with:

  • Effective emails

  • Report writing

  • Briefings and submissions

  • Persuasive and influential writing techniques

  • Promotional writing

  • Effective complaint handling

  • Communicating complex information for non-technical readers.

Her recent clients include Legal & General, HSBC, BRIT, the Law ...


Sue Calthorpe

Learning Outcomes

  • Identify funding that aligns with your organisation’s needs

  • Prepare and plan your proposal to make sure it meets the funder’s necessary requirements

  • Gain effective writing techniques to apply for funding

  • Develop techniques to evaluate and monitor your application


All the Understanding ModernGov courses are Continuing Professional Development (CPD) certified, with signed certificates available upon request for event.

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Agenda

09:00 – 09:30 Registration

09:30 – 10:00 Trainer’s Welcome and Clarification of Learning Outcomes

10:00 – 10:45 Researching and Scoping the Bid, Application and Proposal Market

·       Ask the right questions to define the right opportunities

·       Align your funding requests with your goals

·       Receive tips on better understanding the organisation you’ll be writing for

·       Identify who to partner with to enhance your application’s success rate

10:45 – 11:00 Break

11:00 – 12:00 Planning Your Response

·       What to do before, during and after the application process: a planning grid

·       Tell your story – what will you need in your toolbox to bring your application to life?

·       Turn passion into prose: creating a team-led document

 12:00 – 13:00 Answering the Requirement

  • What’s the ‘must’, ‘should’ and ‘could’ know content for your particular reader

  • Conveying complex and technical information for lay readers

  • Decide on format, style and tone

13:00 – 14:00 Lunch

14:00 – 14:45 Writing an Application, Proposal or Grant

  • Learn how to make every word count

  • Review real-life funding applications

  • Practical steps to better documents

  • Meet word count without losing valuable content

 14:45 – 15:00 Break

15:00 – 16:00 Funding: Monitoring and Reporting

  • What’s working well and what needs to change

  • Aspects of good governance: how will you show your work is compliant?

16:00 – 16:15 Feedback, Evaluation and Close

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