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Do's and Don'ts For Successful Funding Applications
DO ...
- Confine your application to the information required
- Show evidence of need for the project
- Describe the project in a way that meets the funder's priorities
- Make sure your objectives are clear and measurable
- Describe how the project will be managed and monitored
- Make a request for a specific sum of money
- Ensure the figures in the budget add up!!
- Make sure the budget is realistic
- Make it clear where any other money is coming from and if you have received any
- Describe your "exit strategy" (how you intend to carry on after the grant)
- Write clearly and in black ink or type
- Use application form if available
- Use online application form/electronic form if available
- Observe dates and deadlines of the funder
- Try to personalise every application
- For most applications the organisation will need:
- Bank account with at least two signatures
- End of year accounts or projected budget for the year if new organisation
- Constitution
- A minimum of 3 on the management committee
- Make sure you address it to the right person
- Make sure you get a colleague to proof read it before you send it of
DON'T ...
- Rush to get an application in for an unrealistic deadline
- Make spelling mistakes or use abbreviations and jargon
- Make vague statements about what you want to do
- Present a huge list of things you want to do
- Forget to include all expenditure items and overheads in the costs
- Forget about inflation and VAT where applicable
- Rely on one person to put in the application
- Send in lots of other information unless it is requested by the funder
- Forget to send in anything else the funder has asked for
- Forget to compare supporting information and the application