For very small charities applying for foundation & trust grants — without a grant writer
Most small-charity applications don't fail on the idea. They fail on the two sections reviewers scrutinise hardest — the budget justification and the outcomes/impact — and that's exactly where volunteers have no help. This Kit is a craft scaffold that fixes both, in your own words, before you hit submit.
30-day money-back guarantee · Instant download · Runs in your browser, nothing uploaded · No subscription
The problem, in your words
You run, or volunteer at, a charity under roughly £250k income. You apply to a handful of foundation and trust grants a year. You can't justify £300–£3,000 for a freelance writer per application, and a £200-a-month SaaS subscription is absurd for someone applying a few times a year. So you do it yourself — and you lose in the same predictable places every reviewer looks first:
None of these are about your idea. They're avoidable, self-inflicted mistakes — and they're exactly what a £300-an-hour grant writer quietly fixes for you. This Kit puts that craft in your hands for the price of a few coffees.
Why now
AI text generators have flooded funders with fluent-but-generic proposals. Program officers are openly flagging vague, templated submissions as a problem and rewarding specificity, budget–narrative alignment, and authentic, evidenced outcomes. Some funders have gone further and restricted applications substantially written by AI.
That's why this Kit is deliberately not a text generator. It's a scaffold that forces your application to be the specific, defensible one in the pile — the one a reviewer can check, believe, and fund. The flood of slop is the opportunity: craft wins.
The solution
Free templates are everywhere — and they're not why you lose. You lose on judgement: a budget that doesn't reconcile, outcomes that aren't really outcomes. So the Kit leads with two real, build-in-your-browser tools aimed straight at those failure points. Templates are table stakes; these are the difference.
The hero tool. Builds a funder-ready budget table and a matching line-by-line justification. It forces %FTE salaries, demands a quantity × unit and a one-line "why" for every cost, blocks catch-all "miscellaneous" lines, and makes the total reconcile — live.
Score your own draft the way a funder's reviewer will — weighted to the sections that actually get applications rejected (need, budget, outcomes, logic) — and get a prioritised "fix these before you submit" list.
Annotated proposal templates ("why this wins / what gets it rejected"), a logic-model builder, an outcomes & impact phrasing bank, and a funder-fit checklist — so the narrative around the budget is just as defensible.
What's inside
index.html in any modern browser — no install, no internet needed
after download, and your figures never leave your device. Templates are plain text to
paste into Word/Docs; spreadsheets are CSV. No locked PDFs, no software, no subscription.
The offer
Founding price (first 100 buyers)
£59 then £79
Get the Kit now →One-off payment · instant download · 30-day money-back guarantee · no subscription
Compare: a freelance grant writer charges £300–£3,000 per proposal; grant-writing SaaS runs £200+/month. This is yours once, for every application you ever write.
Not sure yet? Score your current draft free — it'll show you, in 4 minutes, which of the rejection-prone sections are putting your application at risk.
Use the full Kit for 30 days. If it doesn't help you write a noticeably stronger, more defensible application than you could alone, email us for a full, no-questions refund — and keep your free checker results either way.
What we will never do is promise you'll win funding. No tool honestly can — that depends on the funder's priorities, the other applicants, and factors nobody can see. What we can promise is that this Kit stops you losing on the avoidable mistakes. We only want to be paid if it genuinely helps.
This is a contractual promise on top of your statutory rights. At checkout you'll consent to instant access and acknowledge this waives the statutory 14-day cancellation right for digital downloads (UK Consumer Contracts Regulations 2013) — the 30-day guarantee above is more generous than that floor.
Questions
No — and anyone who promises that is misleading you. Funding depends on the funder's priorities, the pool of other applicants, and factors no tool can see. What this Kit does is stop you losing on the avoidable mistakes — the budget that doesn't add up, the "outcomes" that are really outputs, the logic a reviewer can't follow. We guarantee the product (30-day money-back), never the grant.
You can — and free templates aren't why you lose. You lose on judgement: a budget that doesn't reconcile, impact wording that doesn't convince. That's why the Kit leads with two real tools — the Budget Justification Builder and the Reviewer Self-Scoring Rubric — that work on the exact failure points free templates leave you to guess at. Templates are included, but they're table stakes, not the point.
No — deliberately. AI text generators have flooded funders with generic proposals, and program officers now penalise vague, templated submissions; some funders restrict applications substantially written by AI. This Kit is a scaffold for your own writing and figures that forces specificity and coherence — the opposite of a text spinner. Check each funder's rules on AI use and write in your own authentic voice.
Founders, volunteer coordinators and part-time fundraisers at very small charities, CICs and community groups (roughly under £250k income) who apply for a handful of foundation and trust grants a year, have no grant writer, and can't justify £300–£3,000 per proposal or a £200+/month subscription. If you're applying for large federal/government grants, you'll likely need specialist help beyond this.
The two tools open as a webpage (index.html) in any modern browser — no install,
no internet needed after download, and your figures never leave your device. The templates are
plain text you paste into Word or Google Docs; the worksheets are CSV for Excel / Numbers / Sheets. No
locked PDFs, no software, no account, no subscription.
No. It's an educational toolkit. Every figure and rate is an editable default (including the example overhead rate) to replace with your real numbers and your funder's actual published rules. For anything with legal, financial or tax consequences — restricted-fund accounting, employment costs, VAT — consult a qualified adviser.
Yes — it was produced with AI assistance and reviewed against published grant-writing and grant-review guidance, with sources cited in the Guide. We do not fabricate statistics, funders, testimonials or outcomes; worked examples (like the "After-School Reading Club") are clearly illustrative and fictional. We disclose this openly.
30-day no-questions money-back guarantee. If it doesn't help you write a stronger application, email us within 30 days for a full refund and keep your free checker results.