Charity monthly plan
£750 a month
Up to 2 applications
£375 each at full capacity.
Capacity depends on suitable opportunities and your evidence.
Discuss this planRetained bid support
Keep the applications moving.
Ongoing bid writing and review, month by month.
A rolling monthly plan for applications written from your evidence. Suitable opportunities are found, the agreed work gets written, and your open questions come back as a short list.
Discuss ongoing support
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Charity plans from £750 a month. Company plans from £1,500 a month. A month's notice ends it. You hear back within 24 hours.
Base fees. An applicable award payment is additional, including for reviews. See award amounts and terms.
An illustrative working month
A month.
A clear focus.
A clear focus.
- Check the fit
A promising opportunity is checked against what you can deliver.
Decision: pursue or leave - Bring the evidence together
Ask for the missing facts before they become a weak answer.
Decision: what still needs confirming - Write, review, agree
The application takes shape around the funder's or buyer's requirements.
Decision: your sign-off
Published monthly plans
Choose the capacity your team needs
For charities
Charity monthly plan
£1,450 a month
Up to 4 applications
£363 each at full capacity.
Capacity depends on suitable opportunities and your evidence.
Discuss this planCharity monthly plan
£2,400 a month
Up to 6 applications
£400 each at full capacity.
Capacity depends on suitable opportunities and your evidence.
Discuss this planThe top band costs more for each one because six applications is the whole month.
For companies
Company monthly plan
£1,500 a month
Up to 1 full tender, or 2 shorter responses
Capacity depends on suitable opportunities and your evidence.
Discuss this planCompany monthly plan
£2,950 a month
Up to 2 full tenders
Capacity depends on suitable opportunities and your evidence.
Discuss this planBudget for the award payment too. A grant or tender carries an additional payment if awarded, agreed before work starts. See amounts, due dates and full payment terms.
A retained month is paid in advance, and the first payment starts the work. A month's notice ends it either way, and everything produced is yours on the way out.
The number in a band is the most a month can include, never a target to hit, and an application that fits is one to a fund whose criteria match what you already do. If two months running come up short of funds worth going for, the band moves down and so does the fee.
Inside the work / Illustrative example
Give the right opportunity room to become a bid.
An illustrative mentoring organisation. See the evidence shape the shortlist, the draft and what waits.
Read the complete example below.
Organisation record / Local mentoring
- Work
- Local mentoring sessions
- Evidence held
- Delivery notes and participant feedback
- Reach
- Local provision
Selection basis: Match opportunities to this record, not to a larger service imagined for the application.
- Organisation
- Local mentoring sessions
- Evidence held
- Delivery notes + participant feedback
Know the work before choosing the fund.
Start with the organisation’s actual delivery and reach, so the shortlist reflects what it can support.
Opportunity shortlist / Fit before effort
- Proceed
Local mentoring opportunity
Use the delivery notes to explain how support is provided.
- Set aside
Regional delivery opportunity
The required coverage is outside this example’s reach.
- Proceed
- Local opportunity fits the delivery record
- Set aside
- Regional coverage is outside its reach
Take the relevant opportunity forward.
A local opportunity fits the delivery record. A regional requirement does not become a fit through better wording.
Writing queue / Evidence still matters
- Draft
Delivery approach
Mentoring sessions and participant feedback support this part.
- Hold
Longer-term change
Ask for follow-up evidence before making the claim.
- Draft
- The evidenced delivery approach
- Hold
- Longer-term claims need follow-up evidence
Let the draft expose the evidence gap.
The local application can describe delivery, but longer-term change needs a follow-up record.
Client view / What moves next
- Your review
The supported application
Approve the draft and confirm your commitments before submission.
- Still open
The follow-up question
Supply the evidence or narrow the outcome claim.
- Your review
- Approve the supported application
- Still open
- Supply evidence or narrow the outcome claim
Return the draft and the decision list.
Work moves when its evidence is ready. The quarterly pack records submissions, open work and responses.
Compare the founding offer with the regular plan
Charity / Entry plan
A continuing monthly plan
- Regular plan
- £750 a month for up to 2 applications.
- On a founding place
- The same published entry plan. Any introductory extras are set out in your written quote.
- After the introduction
- Your agreed monthly plan continues. The entry plan remains £750 a month for up to two applications a month. Any introductory extras are set out in your written quote. They do not replace the ongoing plan.
Company / Introductory capacity
More capacity for the first 3 months
- Regular entry plan
- £1,500 a month for up to 1 full tender, or 2 shorter responses.
- First 3 months on a founding place
- £1,500 a month for up to 2 full tenders, the higher band's capacity.
- From month 4
- Choose your band: £1,500 a month for up to 1 full tender, or 2 shorter responses, or £2,950 a month for up to 2 full tenders.
The founding price is open to three clients at a time and to six founding places in all, and it closes on 31 December 2026.
Confirm availability and the applicable founding period in your written quote before work starts. Filling the founding places closes the offer to new clients. It does not shorten your agreed introductory period.
Budget for the award payment too. A grant or tender carries an additional payment if awarded, agreed before work starts. See amounts, due dates and full payment terms.
What sits outside a monthly plan
- A standard trust or foundation application up to 3,000 words or twelve questions is one of the applications in your band. A major fund, a council or a commissioned funding application, or one materially longer, counts as two of them or gets quoted on its own.
- A full tender counts as two of the applications in your band, or gets quoted on its own.
- Reporting beyond the quarterly pack is quoted too, and so is anything you need inside five working days.
- Answering the buyer's or the funder's clarification questions after a submission we wrote is quoted before it starts.
- An application you do not use rolls into the next month and no further.
A month's notice ends it either way, and everything produced is yours on the way out.
There is no VAT to add to the published fees. Any applicable award payment is additional to the base fee.
Is there a place open?
This is a small service, it takes a small number of clients, and the places fill up.
Above the top band, a month is priced individually.
Need one document instead? See a draft review or one application written.
The questions that matter month to month
Does the retainer include reviewing bids we write ourselves?
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Yes. Where we check a draft your own team has written instead of writing one, it counts as one of the applications in your band and comes back marked up the same way.
How many bids are you working on at once?
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We keep the number of live bids small so every client can see their own work moving. If a month is full when you enquire you are told in the same reply, with the date one opens.
What happens to the work if we stop?
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Everything produced during your plan is yours to keep, including any answer library, shortlists and drafts. You receive the files.
Tell us what you want to apply for
No live opportunity is needed. Send your contact and organisation details, what you do, and who writes your bids now. The reply sets out the plan that fits and whether there is a place open.
Ask about a month of applications
You hear back within 24 hours.