Insights
Practical, founder-led guidance to help your CIC, charity or social enterprise become more structured, more credible and genuinely fundable.
Funders are more oversubscribed than ever. The organisations winning grants in 2026 aren't the ones with the best ideas — they're the ones who understand the new rules. Here's the framework.
The best theories of change are the simplest. Here's what funders are really checking for, the mistakes that sink most attempts, and a five-sentence framework to build a clear one.
There are thousands of UK grant funders — the problem isn't finding money, it's finding the right money. Here's the full funding landscape, the search tools that work, and a four-step system for building a funder pipeline.
Contracts can turn unpredictable income into real stability — but they're won long before the tender appears. Here's how social enterprises become the commissioner's safe, obvious choice.
The difference between surviving and scaling is rarely talent. It's planning. Here's how to build a funding mix, manage a pipeline, and stop lurching from one grant to the next.
After enough time on funding panels, you stop seeing a hundred reasons for rejection and start seeing the same seven. Here they are — and how to fix each one before you apply.
Funding is the result. Fundability is the cause. Here are the five areas every funder assesses, why good projects fail the test, and how to close the gap and become repeat-fundable.
Most applications describe what an organisation does, not what changes because of it. Here's why funders buy outcomes, not activity — and how to measure your impact without a research team.
On grant assessment panels, the strongest projects were almost always the easiest to explain. Here's why clarity wins funding — and a simple framework to explain your project in one sentence, one paragraph and one page.
A great idea isn't enough. Funders don't reject your vision — they reject the risk attached to it. Here's how funders really assess risk, and how to close the gaps.
Most founders treat funding as a transaction. The ones who consistently win treat it as a relationship. Here's how to become known and trusted before you ever submit an application.