Presenting your budgets and financial information is a key element of any application’s success – incorrect and unclear budgets give funders easy reasons to reject your application!
Budgets are an area Fundraisers often don’t feel confident. But you don’t need to be an expert on finances to make sure you’re nailing your budgets!
In Budgets MASTERCLASS, Get Grants Director John Ellery will use his decades of experience writing and assessing funding applications to how you can design clear budgets that give your application the best chance of success.
This session will explore what a well-developed budget looks like in practice, how it can inform the rest of your application, and can improve the quality of your applications.
Who is it for?
Get Grants Budgets MASTERCLASS has a focus on bid writing and will benefit anyone who works in grant fundraising or with responsibilities for fundraising within their role. This session is appropriate for people of all levels of experience and organisations across the sector.
What to expect?
During the 1-hour session, this MASTERCLASS will look at:
- How important your budget is to your funding application.
- Working with colleagues to project budgets.
- Explore what a good Project budget looks like.
- Understand what is needed in a Core Cost budget.
- How funders assess and use budgets.
This 1-hour webinar-style session will be delivered online via Zoom.
All attendees of the live Masterclass will receive a copy of the session recording. We will also make the recording available to purchase on-demand via our website after the session.
Upcoming Dates
- When: Monday 11th August 2025, 11am – 12pm
- Cost: £12
- Book your place today through Eventbrite.
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Alternatively, contact us to request a booking form.
About the Trainer
John Ellery is Founder and Director of Get Grants.
He has a passion for supporting small grassroots community organisations and this is reflected in the range of support and resources we offer at Get Grants.
John is the creator of our most popular Training Course Bid Writing for Charities & Community Groups and delivered Masterclasses on Core Costs and Bid Writing Credibility.
For over a decade prior to establishing Get Grants in 2012, John worked for as a Community Worker, Fundraiser and Grants Maker. John worked for a range of local community organisations and national charities, in particular working in disadvantaged communities and with young people with disabilities.
He also has considerable experience in grant making, including working for a national grant-making charity and on a personal level establishing a small grant-making Trust.
When not fundraising or delivering our training and events, John fills his time with his three young children, making homebrew, and talking about the woes of supporting Crystal Palace.
