Get that funding – avoiding common grant application mistakes

Schools tend to have a mixed success rate when making applications to grant funds, with some receiving regularfunding via grants and others seemingly perennially unsuccessful. A great way to improve your school’s success rate is to learn from the mistakes of others. 

Funding organisations usually have limited staff resources as they prioritise funds towards their grant programmes rather than administrative costs. This means that they are keen to make decisions as simply and quickly as possible.

A traditional way of working within these constraints is to make simple rejections at an “initial-assessment” or “triage” phase, which means that relatively quickly a large number of applications are removed from the process and resources can then be better targeted on thoroughly assessing the good-quality applications at the next stage.