Writing Funding Applications

Please note: These sessions will take place on Monday 15th September AND Monday 22nd September 2025 9.30am – 11.30am. NB Participants must attend both sessions. This is a 4 hour course that allows for thinking and reflection between the two sessions

Bedrock Basics Project & Get Grants Writing Funding Applications Workshop 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.

Whether you are new to grant fundraising, looking to build on your fundraising experience, or you are supporting others to make grant funding applications, this Writing Funding Applications Workshop will help your organisation to become more confident in the quality of funding applications that you prepare and submit.

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.

This Writing Funding Applications Workshop clarifies the grant funding process, so that you leave the course with a more assured approach to the task of grant fundraising.

By taking part in this training 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 evidence Need.

• Explore Impact and Outcomes.

• Investigate common errors, reasons applications are rejected, and top tips for increasing your success rates.

• Learn how to write funding applications that present your organisation as credible and trustworthy.

• Understand how applications are assessed and start to look at your applications from the perspective of the funder.

Our Workshop 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.

To book your place, please click here.