Let’s Make Your Bids Shine & Your Reports Stand Out
Helping You Secure Funding & Show Impact with Confidence.
Years of experience
15+
Beneficiaries Helped
1,000s
Customer Satisfaction
100%
Get help when you need it the most
Say goodbye to lengthy lead-in time and contracts. Say hello to that girl Friday you can call on within your budget, at the drop of a hat.
I know being at the coal face in charity means deadlines and squeezes of your time, all the time, and then repeat!.
Get a specialist quickly, and breath a little sigh of relief.
Types of Funders
Major Trusts & Foundations, Lottery Funding, Private Trusts.
Charities Supported
Arts and Heritage, Disability, Community Development, Elderly, Mental Health, Social Welfare, Environment.
100% satisfaction
Repeat clients,
year after year.
About The Grant Whisperer services.Your Go-To Strategic Sidekick!
Here is what I can do for your organisation.
An expert second pair of eyes—someone who refines, sharpens, and strengthens charity bids and reports (plus, a range of other stuff!). I've worked closely with Directors of small charities as their Go-To Strategic Sidekick for over 15 years.
I can:
- Help create draft funding bids
- Review your bid before sending, suggest/make edits to give it it’s best chance on the table for consideration from funders
- Transform your draft monitoring reports into high impact reports that give funders what they need
- Help set up your monitoring and evaluation for projects
- Work with you to set up or change your online systems and digital processes
- Communicate your message/raise your profile uber clearly across your social media channels
- Polish and refine all of your excellent work into "must fund these guys" words that get you that grant
- Communicate your report through your digital channels (instead of it just being a lot of work to be filed away with a funder), to demonstrate your impact.
- Support and mentor your new fundraising officers (to take a little of that pressure off of you as the director or manager).
Or a Combination of support - a bit of the above, all of the above, something else.
You’ve come to the right place.
No more time-wasting meetings.
We can get going quickly, and even though remote, I'm very present with all my clients (like being in the room, but without the wait!).
Stop struggling with the words.
When you are so close to the heart of the work (as we get when we have a passion for helping people in our charities), it can make clarity harder sometimes.
A fresh pair of expert eyes to summarise and inject oomph is like that feeling when you step off a plane into a blast of warm air. Ahhh, that's better.
Turn your impact story up a level
It is all well and good to tell your amazing story, but is it going out across all your channels, or it is disappearing once you submit it to your funder?.
Let's get it polished/get some fantastic soundbites, and shout about them.
Stand out.
Let's make sure your bids and reports stand out from all the others on that table when funders make those key decisions on WHO to fund.
Pricing - Fixed or Flex?
As a starting point - With first time clients I always offer the first hour free, and provide feedback, so you can see what I do in action. I know how tight time is for charity managers. I love a deadline, so we can work together in the ways you most need at the time.
I offer flexible support tailored to your charity’s needs, with typical projects including bid reviews and final edits, monitoring report polishing, funder feedback reworks, and impact summary checks to help your results stand out. For broader insights, a one-off charity health check reviews recent applications and reports with tailored recommendations. I can also provide mentoring to your fundraising staff. Prices typically range from £100–£400, depending on the project's scope.
Here are some options to suit all kinds of budgets - from project hours, a flexible bank of hours, to a fixed monthly fee (cancel/pause at anytime).
All options are flexible and nimble (just like your organisation), yet strategic and impactful (ditto!).
Pricing: Per Project
Book for a Specific Project Task
Flexible support tailored to your needs, with pricing based on project scope.
Starts from £100 fixed fee.
Types of Work includes:
- Grant Bid Support, Bid Review, Rework & Final Edits
- Monitoring Report Review & Polish
- Funder Feedback Rework
- Impact Summary & Reporting Checks
- Setting Up Your Online Systems for Evaluations
- Mentoring Fundraising Staff
- Showcasing Results across Digital Platforms
- Charity Board Reports
Book a Flexible Bank of Hours
Ideal for charities that need ad-hoc support rather than a monthly commitment.
£500 for 10 hours.
What's included:
- Choose any from the list of types of work from the first list
- 10 hours of support
- Valid for 3 months
Ongoing Monthly Support Packages
What’s included:
- 2-3 bid/application help per month/monitoring systems support/comms support
- Quick turnaround (within 3-5 days)
- Email support for funding queries
- Monitoring/reporting support
Book Ongoing Monthly Support Package: Standard
For more in-depth and hands on ongoing support.
£800/month
What’s included:
- 4-6 bid/application reviews + editing and refining per month/monitoring systems support/comms support
- Priority turnaround (within 2-3 days)
- Email support for funding queries
- Monitoring/reporting support
- In-depth review and editing support
First Hour is Free - with no commitment
First Hour Free – Let’s See What We Can Achieve Together
The first step is often the hardest—so let’s make it easy. I offer a free first-hour consultation, giving you a chance to see how I can help strengthen your bids, reports, or funding applications with no upfront commitment. It’s a risk-free opportunity to refine a piece of work and get a feel for how we could work together. If it feels like a good fit, we can explore affordable options for continued support.
How does that sound?
Project highlights
Magpie Dance
Funding applications
Impact summaries
Strategic planning with Director and Board
Monitoring and reports design,development, delivery.
To develop sustainable funding for this fantastic organisation supporting people with learning disabilities in dance, based in Bromley, London, UK.
My task: Ensure fundraising success, working closely with the director and Board. 6 years working together.
The result: Financial stability of the organisation over sustained years, unrestricted funding, repeat funding, and a diversified funding strategy.
Scottish Chamber Orchestra.
Impact summaries
SROI (Social Return on Investment)
Understand and demonstrate the social value of an educational project within a catchment school.
My task: Undertaking an SROI assessment to demonstrate impact value to funding bodies.
The result: Successful demonstration of the impact through a thorough report.
CADISPA (Community Action for Development and Innovation in Social and Participatory Action)
Funding research
Email mentoring and support
Funding advice
A project from Strathclyde University to support rural communities across Scotland.
My task: Funding advisor to a range of community organisations to secure financial security in rural Scottish communities.
The result: Rural community groups on Islay supported with fundraising efforts.
Some of the amazing organisations I've helped...
Did I miss something?
There are 3 ways to work with me: 1. Get in touch to have an informal chat, using the contact form or email hello@thegrantwhisperer.co.uk.Then take up the 1 hour for free offer to see what is possible, before you commit. 2. Get in touch with the contact form, and say yes to the initial about your project form, which will be sent to you, and let's get started. 3. Or, if you already know you need support asap, book your project in by buying one of the options above.
Absolutely, just message me to ask. I have worked in the charity sector a long time, and as you will know, when you work in small charities you need a whole range of skills in your toolbox.
Complete the About Your Project form - Once you've booked in for a project that needs support, I will send you a super quick way to get started, and then work will be delivered and you'll be notified along the way. I try to use a little automation so to keep everyone updated (so you can still go about your day without having to schedule a call with me).
I want you to get the most out of my services. If you are not happy with the work, I offer a 30 day money back guarantee - so you're covered. Just contact me, and I will refund you.
By committing to the project upfront it means that you pay for what I have estimated it with take timewise, and you won't be hit with project creep and hidden fees. A kind of what you see is what you get model. But it is flexible, and I'm happy to work within your specific requirements.
Are You Ready?
Pop me an initial email to talk about how we can collaborate and help your charity out.