Funding Searches

Everybody knows that gaining new funding is difficult.

Regardless, fund identification and application should be high on the priorities of any project plan, with the needs known well in advance of any true project development. By identifying the key Outputs and success measurements of a project, early identification of potential funders can be made and early applications developed.

The identification, investigation and updating of current status of suitable types of funds for a project or initiative is vital. However, this is a detail-based, time consuming task, where funds can and often do sound positive, but on closer inspection of the guide lines, your funding needs do not match the specific criteria required.

Funders receive hundreds of applications for each and every fund, sifting through these is demanding enough, but is compounded by applications from organisations and individuals that have simply not read the brief and qualifying criteria in the detail required.

The biggest single reason for unsuccesful funding bids often is a failure to fully understand the specific criteria before submitting an application,  something that funders are continually advising on.

In acknowledging that fund applications is time consuming, success is never guaranteed, regardless of how well the application is developed. It is for this reason that as many funds as possible are identified that will support a project, in principle. This will minimise the importance of a single funding application to a project and maximise your knowledge of funders for the future.

RML can work with any organisation to search, investigate, identify and select individual or multiple funds, as part of your funding needs.

Call us today to find out how we can help.