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Guest Post: 3 Steps to Showing Value for Money in Your Advocacy Tender

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Who is the star of your value for money advocacy tender show?

Advocacy contracts are becoming tighter and increasingly price driven. Whether you agree with price driven commissioning or not you’ve got to show Commissioners how you offer value for money.

You have to convince them that they are getting a good deal from you; in terms of both quality and cost.

You can do this more easily by understanding their definition of value and then showing that your outcomes offer this value.

Here’s how. [Read more…] about Guest Post: 3 Steps to Showing Value for Money in Your Advocacy Tender

What Saville Row Tailors Can Teach Us About Bid Writing

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Advocacy tailoring
Tailor your bid like the pros by outlining first

Bid writing can be a laborious process. Even for experienced professionals sustaining the energy and focus needed to churn out quality responses to 10 or 20 questions at a time is a challenge.

How can you speed it up? How can you make it easier?

There’s one traditional tailors trick that can make a critical difference. Without it you’re wasting your time. [Read more…] about What Saville Row Tailors Can Teach Us About Bid Writing

The Only Way You Should Ever Begin Your Advocacy Funding Bid

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Open your bid with an explosion
Boom! You’ve got to start your bid with a bang.

What’s the most important part of your advocacy funding bid? What’s the one thing that will shape how your bid’s assessor rates the rest of it?

It’s how you begin it.

Because even in the world of bid writing first impressions matter most. A brilliant first impression casts the rest of your bid in a brilliant light. Whereas a dull opening condemns your reader to a duller experience, no matter how much your bid shines later on.

This massively affects your bid’s chances of being successful. [Read more…] about The Only Way You Should Ever Begin Your Advocacy Funding Bid

Twelve tried and tested ways to improve your advocacy organisation’s funding prospects (via eight Advocacy Leaders)

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Improve your funding prospects without having to go panning down the creek.

Maintaining your advocacy service and growing its funding is hard work.

Tenders are tougher than ever. Grant programmes become more competitive every month. To be successful there’s a lot of things to get right, and a lot of things you can get wrong.

But within the advocacy community there’s a lot of experience and good advice available on how to improve your funding prospects and make sure your hard work yields results. We’ve gathered some of the best of it here in the first of our ‘Ask the Community’ articles. We asked eight independent advocacy leaders:

“What’s your best advice for other advocacy organisations wanting to maintain and grow their funding?”

Here’s what they said… [Read more…] about Twelve tried and tested ways to improve your advocacy organisation’s funding prospects (via eight Advocacy Leaders)

6 Hot Tips to Ease the Pain of Bid Writing

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The pain of advocacy bid writing
Does bid writing make you feel like this?

You’ve got a fundraising strategy.

You’ve got good evidence that your project is needed and a list of funders to apply to.

You’ve checked their guidelines and you know that you fit them. You know your project and your approach. You know what questions you’ll need to answer.

You’re ready to go. All that stands between you and a world-beating bid is a blank page.

This is the hard part, where the pain starts.

But it doesn’t have to be so hard. And it can be less painful. There’s a pretty simple process you can go through that makes bid writing easier, helps you feel like you know what you’re doing, and saves you time. Here’s how. [Read more…] about 6 Hot Tips to Ease the Pain of Bid Writing