Get Grants Online Bid-Writing Course will give you practical support to improve your grant fundraising success and inspire you to become a more confident grant fundraiser. In attending our course, you will access expert insights, crucial information, and friendly advice that will help you increase your organisation’s income through grant funding.

Who our bid-writing courses are for

Whether you are new to grant fundraising, looking to build on your fundraising experience, or you are supporting others to make grant funding applications, Get Grants Bid-Writing Course will help you to grow as an organisation, launch an important project, or bring your dream to life.

Previous attendees include fundraisers from a variety of backgrounds, for example charities, community groups, sports clubs, and schools – all with differing levels of experience. Whether you are looking to hone your existing grant fundraising skills, or you want to write your very first application – this course will be relevant for you.

What to expect

The Get Grants Bid-Writing Course clarifies the grant funding process, so that you leave the course with a more assured approach to the task of grant fundraising. We use our training course to share our insights and experience from inside the world of grant fundraising and grant giving, setting you on the right path and arming you with the information you need to make the best use of your time and energy spent fundraising.

What topics we cover

On our Bid-Writing Course, you will cover a range of topics to equip you with a solid foundation of grant fundraising best practice. You will:

• Discover how to find funding opportunities and how to decide which funds are right for you.
• Learn different tactics you can use to argue Need.
• Explore Impact and Outcomes.
• Look at what makes a good budget.
• Investigate common errors, reasons applications are rejected, and top tips for increasing your success rates.
• Consider different types of applications, including how to create proposals to Trusts and Foundations.
• Understand how applications are assessed and start to look at your applications from the perspective of the funder.

Our Bid-Writing Course sessions are open and conversational, with a mix of group work and individual tasks, offering a friendly and relaxed environment with plenty of opportunities to ask questions throughout the day.

Course Delivery

Currently our Bid-Writing Course is delivered via Zoom, across two lots of 2-hour sessions, leaving some time in between to read further course material and reflect on the information given.

Upcoming Dates

May

• Wednesday 19th & Wednesday 26th May,9:30am – 11:30am
• Cost: £95

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June

• Wednesday 23rd & Wednesday 30th June, 9:30am – 11:30am
• Cost: £95
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July

• Monday 19th & Monday 26th July, 9:30am – 11:30am
• Cost: £95
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About the Trainer

John Ellery is the Managing Director of Get Grants Ltd, a Birmingham based Grant Fundraising and Grant Giving consultancy that works with not-for-profit organisations and grant making charities from across the UK. Since establishing Get Grants in 2012, the consultancy has worked with over 200 different organisations and trained over 1,500 course attendees to become more successful fundraisers.

Prior to establishing Get Grants, 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, most recently spending a three-year period working for a national grant making charity and on a personal level establishing a small grant making Trust.

John can be regularly found, alongside the rest of the Get Grants team, working from the Moseley Exchange in Birmingham talking about homebrew, his three young children and the woes of supporting Crystal Palace.

Have any questions about our courses? Get in touch, we’d love to hear from you!