Three top tips for meeting a funding deadline. It’s that time again when a funding deadline date is approaching fast and as I and the team I am working with […]

The Government is proposing changes to legislation that will affect the way the Landfill Communities Fund works. As The Wildlife Trusts explain here, what sounds like a good idea on […]

5yearsfreelance This year I am celebrating five years of working for myself. In that time I have supported fourteen charitable and community organisations to raise more than £3 million. Grants […]

I am always surprised by the New Year – time passes so quickly and it is hard to believe that one year has ended when it seems like only a […]

I am working on a couple of big partnership projects at the moment, both with their own challenges, and so I have been pondering the pros and cons of partnership […]

Lots of funders ask you to identify a need for your project and, often, this is linked to local deprivation. We all know that deprived communities have multiple needs – […]

I spent an amazing day on Tuesday exploring the Lower Derwent Valley in Derbyshire with one of the DerwentWISE project leaders. DerwentWISE is a Heritage Lottery Fund Landscape Partnerships Programme […]

I got some fantastic news from the Heritage Lottery Fund yesterday. I can’t say any more at this stage (the grants have not been publicly announced yet) but what I […]

I think in many ways we can be sure that summer is over. Outside it feels very autumnal. The mornings are cold, not quite frosty but there is a definite […]