Our Services
We offer a range of services designed to help you maximise your fundraising potential for your organisation. If you would like to discuss how we can help you, please get in touch here.

Fundraising Strategy
A fundraising strategy is a tailored roadmap where we identify the top qualified grant prospects for you to pursue over a 12-18 month timeframe. In particular:
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Prospect Research: We identify a pipeline of up to 6 qualified grant prospects which are highly aligned with your organisation's mission.
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Calendar: This includes application deadlines, funding ranges available, and types of grants awarded.
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Strategy Development: Save valuable time and money by not applying to grants haphazardly. Having a detailed path with a longer-term view helps boost your organisation's sustainability, and frees up your time to focus on day-to-day operations.

Grant Readiness Assessment
A grant readiness assessment is an essential process to determine whether your organisation ticks all the boxes for applying for grants, and whether there is groundwork left to cover. This service includes:
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A goal-setting session to assess your project idea, map out your funding needs, and develop your proposition
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Review and assessment of your project’s funding potential
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Review of required documents and information before you can begin applying for grants
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Develop a pipeline of 10 qualified grant prospects (6 month timeframe)

Grant Prospect Research & Evaluation
Are you ready to start applying for grants, but aren’t sure which ones are appropriate? Prospect research can be a time-consuming and tricky process - let us do the legwork for you.
We can help you:
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Identify qualified prospects that are highly aligned with your organisation’s mission and needs
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Create a 12-month calendar of your top funding opportunities, including types of grants awarded, funding ranges, and application deadlines
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Evaluate potential prospects (both established and new)

Grant Writing / Revision / Review
We can prepare the grant application for you, freeing up your time and energy for running your organisation. We can write compelling applications to secure funding, including text that can be re-purposed for future grant applications.
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Coordinate all elements of the application process, including executive summary, organisational background, budget proposal
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Review & edit draft funding applications
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Upload the final proposal to the submission portal

Full service / end to end grant consulting
Running an organisation is busy enough, without throwing time-consuming grant funding applications into the mix! Let us free up your time with end-to-end support.
This service is provided on a rolling basis (6 month minimum commitment), giving you the reassurance of continued support and guidance in an increasingly competitive funding landscape.
Here’s how we can lighten the load for you:
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Regular check-in meetings to assess your evolving funding needs and strategy
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Continued research & prospecting of new funding opportunities
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Grant writing & proposal submission
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Continued management & reporting of grant application process
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Ongoing support throughout the grant acceptance and due diligence period

Ad hoc services
Need an extra pair of (writing) hands? Stretched for time and can't squeeze in yet another task?
Let us swoop handle any of the following for you by working with us on an ad hoc basis:
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Letters of Intent (LOI)
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Grant review & editing
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Ad-hoc hourly consulting
To see how we can help you meet your fundraising goals, please get in touch with here, or email hello@sophiecairns.com.