Funding Readiness Self Assessment
40 checks across governance, money, evidence and delivery. Find your priority gaps before a funder does.
Get ready
Check you are ready before you spend time on a bid.
Financial Resilience Self Assessment
15 questions across 5 areas, including income spread, strategy and your board. Get a resilience report with next steps.
The Income Spread Checker
See how much you rely on any one funder, how much of your income is unrestricted, and what would happen if your biggest source of money stopped.
Governance Ready
The 37 checks a funder typically makes before releasing money, filtered by your legal form and nation. See the 10 that can stop an application outright.
Choose the right funder
Spend your time on bids you can win.
Should We Apply
Test your fit against a funder through 4 gates and 6 fit questions. If you do not pass, it names the gate and suggests other routes.
The Funding Finder
A free weekly email with UK grants that are open now, checked against each funder's own website, every Wednesday afternoon.
Write and cost your bid
Make your application stronger and your budget fair.
The Assessor's Read
Paste in an answer from your application and see it marked up the way an assessor reads it, with filler and generic sentences picked out.
The Full Cost Builder
Work out a fair share of your core costs and overheads, check it against the funder's rules and get budget lines and wording to copy.
The Outcomes Planner
Turn what you do into the outcomes, measures and targets funders ask for, check each one reads as a change for people, and copy a ready table and draft answer.
Want a second pair of eyes?
If you would like to talk through where you are, I offer a free 30 minute intro call. Email me at sara@1234consultancy.com and put "Free 30 minute intro call" in the subject line.
Sara Downman-Pardoe, Creating Resilient Communities