Write to Win: Your Guide to a Successful Grant Application

Securing funding for the projects that matter to you is more challenging now than ever.

This workshop will help you to navigate the terminology in the world of grant proposals and write clearly with impact.

The session will take you through a step-by-step guide to making successful grant applications.

This workshop is designed to enable the applicant to have the very best chance of success to secure funds to grow their business, and is aimed primarily at the Dudley Council SME Grants and uses their application process as the blueprint for the course.

Full of hints and tips with lots of opportunities for your questions, The workshop will include:

• Aim of the SME Productivity/DNZ Grants
• BGWMiD Business Support
• Eligibility - Who can apply
• Subsidy Control Declaration
• Capital Expenditure - Eligible and ineligible costs, Match funding, loans and lease
• Positioning your project
• Online Application Process
• Financial Assessment & Supporting Information
• Introduction to the Investment Readiness Programme
• Business Plan & Financial Projections
• Raising Match Funding
• Grants not for you? - Alternative Forms of Finance
• Next Stage funding

The workshop will be facilitated by Donna Watkins, Business Growth Adviser from BGWM In Dudley, together with Sharan Anmol, Economic Growth Officer at Dudley Council and Sharn Haywood-Higgs, Finance Specialist from the Investment Readiness Programme.