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Increased demand for funding has left grantmakers inundated with applications and competition is fierce. Understanding how to put together a great application will increase your chances of gaining the funding you need.

How do you make a personal connection with the funder in your application? After all, they’re people too.

Telling a story is vital and being able to demonstrate how your work will make people’s lives better is an important element to a successful bid.

This Royal Literary Fund training (delivered in 2 linked sessions) will give you the confidence to craft that winning application and boost your professional writing skills.

Writing Funding Applications will support you to:

• Understand the key principles of writing applications for funding
• Develop a structured approach to project planning using a Theory of Change (ToC) model
• Practice the ‘writing cycle’ – Think: Plan: Write: Edit.

Session 1 (28 September, 10am – 12pm)

Through practical writing exercises and discussion based on real funders and application processes, you will:

• explore how to interpret funding criteria;
• clarify your aims, objectives and outcomes;
• develop a structured Theory of Change (ToC) approach to project planning.

Because we believe that doing is better than simply theorising, you’ll be asked to develop a draft application between Session 1 and Session 2. This will be reviewed by the trainer, giving you hands-on practical advice specific to you and your skills.

Session 2 (5 October, 10am – 12pm)

This session will draw together learning from the draft applications developed by participants who came along to Session 1, and help you to:

• Consolidate the ‘writing cycle’ – Think: Plan: Write: Edit
• Practice skills in organising information, formulating ideas and expressing yourself clearly, coherently and concisely
• Explore how applications might be different for different funders
• Reflect on key elements of content, structure and style
• Consider the practicalities and ‘nuts and bolts’ of writing funding applications.

*That’s a total of four hours of FREE expert tuition on how to write a successful funding application!*

Please note: by booking your place here, you will automatically be booked on to both sessions.