INCOME AND FUNDING
Your charity makes a difference in the world and changes people’s lives.
Our goal is to help you increase income and impact, to make the biggest difference possible and to make the most effective use of your resources.
We have helped over 100 clients to make a difference to the people they support. We have provided practical support to increase income for charities and other social impact organisations; working across a range of causes and sectors, from health and social care to poverty, youth, domestic violence and more.
SERVICES TO INCREASE INCOME
Tenders / bids / applications
We provide bid writing support on major funding opportunities, such as statutory or Lottery grant programmes, tenders and large trust applications.
We can either lead on the bid development process, ensuring that all required information is gathered in a timely manner and producing the most compelling responses to funder questions; or we can act as a ‘critical friend’, reviewing draft content and providing advice during the bid development process.
Review of fundraising programme
If your charity has a well-established fundraising programme but you believe it is not reaching its potential, we undertake a review of your programme’s outputs and results.
Our 2020-21 research with 248 charities found that 94% of grant-seekers believe their charity is not maximising its grant funding potential.
Our work involves a documentation review, benchmarking and individual conversations with key staff. We provide a report with analysis, findings and recommendations on how to increase income.
Grants fundraising programme set up
If your charity is new to grants fundraising or is seeking to invest in this income stream for the first time, we set your programme up for success through delivering the following steps (typically over a period of around 6 months):
Undertake prospect research
Develop the case for support
Build the pipeline and forecasting tool
Prepare high priority applications
Handover to a member of staff or freelancer
Provide access to trust fundraising training
Continue to support as an advisor (optional).
Case for support
We work with you to articulate, with evidence and emotion, why funders should support your charity/project. This involves a review of existing content, plus a workshop and/or 1-2-1 discussions to gain an in depth understanding of your work so we can write the most compelling case for support. This can be an organisational case for support to secure unrestricted funding or can focus on a particular project or service.
Each case for support we develop provides the building blocks for subsequent funding applications and the content can also be used in other fundraising and marketing communications.
Additional benefits
As well as securing funding and receiving key outputs such as cases for support and prospect lists, our clients often describe intangible benefits resulting from our work.
For example, service and finance colleagues gain a better understanding of what funders are looking for and are better equipped to support future bids; and the process of developing a case for support often helps colleagues in ways that can lead to service improvements, through developing clearer plans, building in improved learning mechanisms or better demonstrating impact.
TRAINING
If you are looking for trust fundraising training, we offer three low-cost, high-value modules that cover the key elements of grantseeking. These courses include video training content in bite size chunks, with activities, resources and templates, currently at just £35.99 per course.
If your charity’s income is less than £100,000, please e-mail hello@kedaconsulting.co.uk
with your registered charity number to receive codes providing free access to these courses.
PROSPECT RESEARCH
This course takes you through each step to identifying and prioritising
the funders that are most likely to support your charity with the size of grant funding you need. You will receive all of the templates and resources you need to begin to find funders for your charity to grow your grants income.
BUILDING YOUR CASE FOR SUPPORT
This course will take you, step-by-step, through the process of building a case for support for your most pressing funding priority. Together, we will make sure you have the information and narrative you need to submit thorough, compelling applications and increase your grant income. You will learn how to articulate with evidence and emotion, why funders should support your charity/project. By the end of the course, you will have an outline draft of a case for support for your charity. You will also identify gaps in information and areas you can improve in order to increase your trust fundraising success rate.
BUILDING YOUR CASE FOR SUPPORT
This course will take you, step-by-step, through the process of building a case for support for your most pressing funding priority. Together, we will make sure you have the information and narrative you need to submit thorough, compelling applications and increase your grant income. You will learn how to articulate with evidence and emotion, why funders should support your charity/project. By the end of the course, you will have an outline draft of a case for support for your charity. You will also identify gaps in information and areas you can improve in order to increase your trust fundraising success rate.
MANAGING YOUR TRUST FUNDRAISING PROGRAMME
This course covers application writing, relationship building and programme management. You will develop an understanding of how to prepare compelling responses to the questions funders ask you. We will also troubleshoot how to respond to those tight word counts. Next, we will look at how you can build long term relationships with funders to grow your grant income. Finally, we will look at the internal management of your trust fundraising programme.
SUCCESS STORIES
I was very impressed by the amount that had been achieved and the quality of the work. Not only had KEDA been focused on delivering income, they had made significant progress in developing much needed systems and processes. In my many years as a Fundraising Director I have rarely seen such positive impact from external fundraising support.
We hadn’t done any proactive trusts and foundation fundraising before … they have supported us to secure over £400,000. They really understand, working sensitively, taking the time to listen to our needs and deliver quality work. KEDA have become part of our team and supported us to make significant progress to improving lives and outcomes for those affected by primary bone cancer.”
Alex helped us to, not only develop our cases for support, but to look at funders differently and be more clear on what we should focus on. Alex asks the right questions and has worked very well with our project managers to get the required information within tight deadlines.
YOUR NEXT STEPS
Would you benefit from one of the above services to increase income?
E-mail hello@kedaconsulting.co.uk with your enquiry and we will get back to you promptly.