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SERVICES TO SUPPORT THE CHANGE PROCESS LIFE CYCLE

Securing Project Funding

We know how to write a successful funding bid that secures grant funding for a wide range of projects in the public sector as well as those for small and medium sized businesses, universities and community organisations and groups.

 

We have over 25 years’ experience and a long and successful track record of writing bids that have secured millions of pounds of UK and European grant funding through open, competitive bidding events.

 

We prepare bids for small projects seeking modest amounts of funding as well as large complex projects and programmes requiring millions of pounds of grant funding and supporting investment.

 

We also support other aspects of the bidding process, including the preparation of supporting evidence like business case reports and project plans, building bidding consortia, managing the submission process, contract negotiations and any post-award delivery arrangements.

Our Services Life Cycle Diagram v4 Step

In addition to our work supporting clients in securing project grant funding, we also put our experience into practice to prepare our own funding bids. Working in collaboration with our SME partners, we secure grant funding for our own self-generated projects, which we usually take forward in partnership with the public sector.

 

Before submitting a bid, we ensure not only that a funding proposal is based on a strong project idea, but also that the most salient aspects of the proposal are reflected accurately and effectively within the application form – leaving nothing to chance in the hope the evaluator will somehow read between the lines to fully understand a proposal. We also ensure the application form is completed in accordance with any guidelines issued by the funder. Too many times, very good projects are let down by a lack of attention to detail to following the guidelines for completing the application form.

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Many of the opportunities to secure grant funding are available through open competitive bidding calls. There are four fundamental questions at the heart of preparing a strong project proposal for submission in response to an open call for project proposals. We use these as our guiding principles in the approach we adopt in preparing funding bids on behalf of clients and for our own project proposals.

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In our experience, for a proposal to have a realistic chance of securing funding through any competitive funding call, it must be possible to substantiate an answer in the affirmative to the following questions at the outset of preparing a funding bid and throughout the preparation process, namely:

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  1. Is the project deliverable without having to significantly change your operating model or deviate from your core work?

  2. Does the proposal realistically meet the funder's criteria?

  3. Does it offer something innovative, different and unique to enable it to stand out from other potential bids?

  4. Is it possible to do all the things outlined in the proposal with the funds available?

 

These questions apply both to small projects seeking modest funding amounts and to large complex projects and programmes requiring millions of pounds of grant funding and supporting investment. We use these as our guiding principles in the approach we adopt in preparing funding bids on behalf of clients and for our own project proposals. The processes followed in the earlier steps within the Changer Process Life Cycle Model will help the preparation of a strong funding proposal.

 

 

 

 

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Our Services

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For clients who are seeking public grant funding through open competitive bidding calls to secure resources to enable a project to move forward and deliver the desired change, we offer the following services:

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  • Providing intelligence and advice on potential sources of funding.

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  • Preparing bidding strategies.

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  • Developing a robust evidence base and business case reports to demonstrate strategic fit and 'make the case' for funding.

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  • Shaping, developing and writing project proposals and project plans.

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  • Securing partner commitment, pooling existing resources, identifying in-kind support and facilitating the formation of bidding consortia.

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  • Writing and submitting bids and managing the bidding process, including contract negotiations, preparing consortium agreements and managing any post-award delivery arrangements.

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  • Providing leadership, coordination and management support for the implementation of projects and programmes once the funding has been secured.

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Get in Touch

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If you are interested in finding out more about how Pentuple Consulting may be able to help you, contact us today.

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Our Experience

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Over the years, we have secured funding to facilitate the implementation of a broad range of projects and programmes in the UK and across Europe that have enabled people, places, businesses and local communities to thrive - economically, socially and environmentally. For example:

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  • NHS England/UK Space Agency/European Space Agency: co-author of funding bid to deliver the Space2Breathe Project to integrate a real time air pollution service into healthcare management using advanced digital self-management technology.

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  • UK Space Agency/Space for Smarter Government Programme: co-author of a funding proposal to UK Space Agency’s Space for Smarter Government Programme to demonstrate the use of innovative new satellite enabled air pollution monitoring and mitigation tools to enable more effective public policy making and smarter, more efficient delivery of public services in Bicester Healthy New Town and Belfast Smart City.

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  • NHS England/Science and Technology Facilities Council: supporting the bidding process to secure funding for the NHS Healthy New Towns Feasibility Study in Bicester, Ebbsfleet and Darlington.

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  • EU ERDF: initiating a funding proposal, building a bidding consortium, writing a successful ESIF Outline Application for £2.9 million ERDF funding and securing match funding for a £5.9 million project to bridge the gap between initial research and commercial launch of new and emerging low carbon and ultra-low emission vehicle technologies.

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  • EU Horizon 2020: coordinating the preparation of a Trans-European consortium bid for €11 million to support a large scale demonstration of co-operative Intelligent Transport Systems across major Europe cities.

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  • EU Horizon 2020: ‘Critical Friend’ on the preparation of €10 million proposal to develop a set of informative cooperative satellite-enabled tools to help Emergency Services better forecast and manage the immediate consequences of weather and climate-related disasters.

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  • UK Government (OLEV): co-author of a £11.7 million proposal to deliver an innovative five-year programme to achieve a step-change in the uptake of Ultra-Low Emission Vehicles in Leicester.

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  • EU FP7: co-author of a €2.75 million proposal to develop a programme of innovative near-to-market intelligent transport and urban mobility solutions harnessing Space and ICT technologies to support smart, green integrated transport and urban mobility.

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  • UK (Enterprise Zones): supporting the preparation of an initial Expression of Interest to Government for Leicester and Leicestershire’s first Enterprise Zone, followed by a Business Case to establish an Enterprise Zone on the MIRA Technology Park and the final submission to Government for Enterprise Zone designation.

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  • HEFCE: co-author of a funding bid to HEFCE for the development of a new model of leadership, governance and management to enable the three universities in Leicestershire to collaborate more effectively and promote graduate entrepreneurship.

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  • UK Government (RDA): preparing a series of funding bids that secured a total of over £2 million of Regional Development Agency funding to deliver a range of regeneration, economic development, tourism, inward investment and business development projects and programmes for Leicester and Leicestershire.

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  • UK Government (SRB6): preparing a proposal to deliver a four-year multi-agency, cross-border community-based urban regeneration programme to tackle deprivation, worklessness, and issues of health, crime and drugs within the Leicestershire & South Derbyshire Coalfields Priority Area.

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  • UK Government (SRB5): preparing a proposal to deliver a five-year multi-agency, cross-border community-based rural regeneration programme to tackle deprivation in former rural mining communities within the Leicestershire and South Derbyshire Coalfields Priority Area.

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  • UK Government (SRB1): co-author of a proposal to deliver a £12 million five-year cross-border programme of action to tackle the economic, environmental and social impacts of the closure of the deep coal mining industry within the Leicestershire and South Derbyshire Coalfields Priority Area.

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  • EU ERDF RECHAR II: leading the preparation of a proposal to deliver a £10 million programme of local area-based capital regeneration projects to reclaim and regenerate former colliery sites in the Coalfields Priority Area within North West Leicestershire.

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  • UK Government (RDC): co-creator of the original concept/vision and co-author of a proposal to deliver a £1 million Rural Challenge and a £5 million RDC programme to deliver a mixed-use capital regeneration scheme to reclaim a derelict former colliery site and construct the Heart of the National Forest Visitor Centre, craft workshops, office development and a training centre.

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