Why use
a consultant?
Application procedures and forms can either be complex or time-consuming
and some of the key decision-making criteria 'lost in translation'. It
can often be difficult to know how best to proceed with a particular application
and to improve your chances of success. For example, grant is always the
minimum level of funding necessary for any project. Budgetary restraints
and restructured funding schemes have increased pressure on reducing levels
and changing the basis on which such support is made available. Grant
consultants can help you justify the maximum allowable amount of support
and identify the conditions under which grant and other funding might
be provided.
A grant and
funding consultant should save you time and resources!
Robin
Rendell prepared his first grant application for a client in 1985.
Since then, he has worked successfully as a grant consultant and specialist
adviser on more than 500 grant applications and other funding proposals.
He has worked for clients throughout the UK and in Ireland and other parts
of Europe, the USA and Hong Kong; a diverse group of different sized businesses
in a variety of sectors linked by a common requirement for funding towards
the cost of investments in assets, people or innovation.
Helping
your business is our business.
We can
help if you are looking to:
1. Invest
in people, capital equipment or product development in the UK or Europe.
2. Source new or replacement debt finance or capital for your business.
3. Sell your business.
4. Start a new business in the UK or Europe.
5. Obtain funding for a charity or community-based organisation in the
UK.
How can
we help you?
1. Write
reader-and-user friendly business plans and prepare or work with your
accountants on the preparation of supporting financial forecasts.
2. Identify sources of grant and other funding for your business in
your existing and alternative locations.
3. Prepare or work with you on the preparation of funding proposals
and applications and liaise with funders and help you negotiate appropriate
levels of funding.
4. Bring lateral and flexible thinking to funding solutions.
Who are
our clients?
Our clients' business activities are as diverse as their projects are
varied but they all identify opportunities for sustained and profitable
growth through planned investment in their businesses and see grants and
supplementary private and public sector funding as an essential part of
their financial planning. Our clients want to secure real benefits from
grant and other funding that are not conditional on them changing how
and when they proceed with a particular project. Funding that unnecessarily
compromises the direction of your business or the scope, scale, location
or timing of your project can bring short-term financial gain without
the benefit of longer-term viability. Our clients in the not-for-profit
Third Sector have introduced us to a wide variety of charitable activities
carried out throughout the UK by a diverse range of individuals and organisations.
Costs
A reasonable amount of initial advice over the phone or by email is
free of charge and without commitment. Our chargeable fee structure
is time based but we are able to negotiate a fee made up of a reduced
time-based element and a contingent percentage of funding offered to the
client. Payment and receipt of a fee, equivalent to 3 hour's work, commits
both parties to the contract.
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