Optimizing Bid Writing: Enhancing Quality and Success Rates
Learn strategies to improve the quality and success rate of bids in the "External Funding Team Bid Writing Workshop." Discover key elements such as project description, budgeting, and standing out in applications. Understand the significance of addressing needs, demonstrating demand, and aligning solutions. Enhance your skills in showcasing evidence, engaging communities, and detailing project specifics to increase your chances of securing funding.
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External Funding Team Bid Writing Workshop HOW TO IMPROVE THE QUALITY AND SUCCESS RATE OF BIDS HOW TO IMPROVE THE QUALITY AND SUCCESS RATE OF BIDS
Welcome & Introductions Need and Demand Describing Your Project Outputs and Outcomes Budgets and Financials Making Your Application Stand Out
Why your solution fits the need Evidenced Captures the imagination Engages with service users Meets the priorities of the funder Novel Stands out
Demonstrating Demand Engagement with your community Letters of support Track record Use your partners
What is your project? Failing to describe a project fully is one of the most common bidding mistakes. Assume the assessor knows nothing about your organisation, your part of the country, what you do
What? & Why?
What are you planning to do? Why? Show evidence How is it different from your day to day work? Is it a pilot, or does it result from a pilot? Show evidence How does it tie into an identified need or gap? How are the questions phrased? Do you need to tie in strategic fit, or the funders aims? How does it break down into strands of work? By audience? By timescale? By funder aim? Activity Type?
Who? Will Deliver The Work?
Lead Organisation Describe organisation Organisation track record Why is this organisation best placed to deliver this project? Are there delivery partners? How do they fit in? Contractors/ Procured Services. Strategic Partners Project oversight Org Chart Do you need a chart or diagram to show how the organisations link together? How does your audience/ client base/ beneficiaries fit into the picture? Who do they interact with?
Who? The Project Team?
Define your target group Needs to be definable and measurable Direct and indirect benefits Do all your audiences/client groups benefit from all aspects of the project or does this need breaking down? How will they know about the project/ access the service? Marketing and promotion . Tie strongly into project need.
How? Project Detail
How Does The Project Add Value?
Outputs Outcomes Healthy Eating Cookery Sessions Parents With Increased Cooking Skills Personal Debt Reduced Advice Sessions Results From Training Sessions Improved Training Courses
Collation of Data Training Records Events Schedules Diaries/Calendars Attendance/Engagement Production Figures Activity Levels Build in Time to Monitor Identify Best Source Consistency Appropriate Intervals
Sustainability and Exit Strategy
Sustainability Is the ability of a project s outcomes to be sustained when grant funding ends Explain how Examples of Sustainability Within a Project: Dissemination of results - Plan a strategy for this Transferability of results to others - Describe how Continuation of activities - Develop an outline for how this will happen Activity can be commercialised / rolled out / taken to market Activity becomes income generating / profit making / lead in to the financials
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