The Bright Ideas Partnership facilitates charities to find and secure funding, measure their impact, and strengthen their organisation.
We also provide mentoring support to enable you to write your funding application in-house.
Bright Ideas has a success rate of 40% for funding applications submitted, significantly higher than the industry average and represents excellent value for money, delivering £40.92 for every £1 invested in us.
We specialise in applications to the National Community Lottery Fund on behalf of a wide range of not-for-profits including organisations who have never before secured large amounts of grant funding.
In our 13-year experience, we have submitted 34 successful Lottery bids – securing over £10.5million in funding, with a 97% success rate at second stage.
In the last seven years, we have externally evaluated £4million worth of programmes working with 22,000 beneficiaries. Many of these projects were receiving National Community Lottery Funding.
We also understand the on-the-ground constraints of monitoring for small charities with limited resources, so we help organisations to ‘set up’ and review monitoring and evaluation systems to ensure they are fit for purpose.
Many small charities are facing reduced funding but increased demand; to respond, and survive, charities need to be resilient, strong and stable. We are experts at enabling clients to improve their performance and build their sustainability.
We do this through developing business plans, undertaking organisational reviews (including for successful recipients of the Reaching Communities development funding) and through mentoring senior staff.
We also deliver training programmes to build the skills and capacity of smaller charities.