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Beyond Grants
Creating Resilient Communities
Finding Funding Wednesday tells you what is open. Beyond Grants tells you how it is actually won, and where the rest of your income is going to come from.
Five sections. Intelligence you would spend a week gathering, and some of it you could not gather at all.
Not a list of what is open. What is worth your time and why. Who each fund actually backs rather than who it says it will consider, what the competition looks like, where the money went last round, and which ones to leave alone however well they read.
The learning from a real conversation with a funder that month. Never named, which is exactly why it is useful. What they are quietly tired of seeing, what makes them stop reading, what they wish applicants understood. The things nobody says in a public webinar.
Income that does not come from a grant panel. Sponsorship, consultancy, training, contracts, membership, trading. A worked idea each month with real numbers, what it takes to set up, and an honest read on whether it suits an organisation your size.
What has actually happened this month. Funders changing direction, pots opening and closing, regulation and thresholds shifting, commissioners moving the goalposts. Live and current, not a summary of the quarter.
My own update. What I am seeing across the organisations I work with, what is working, what is failing, and the judgements I am forming before they are settled enough to say publicly. This part is for paying members and it stays that way.
Finding Funding Wednesday is not going anywhere, and it stays free. Beyond Grants sits underneath it.
Five open funders, a funder spotlight, an income idea, funding intelligence and a free resource. Everything you need to know what is out there.
The depth underneath it. What funders say when they are being honest, what is happening across the sector right now, and how to build income that has nothing to do with a grant panel.
Every item in every edition has to pass that test before it goes in. If you could assemble it from a funder website in ten minutes, it belongs in the free newsletter, not in this one.
One step. Choose your plan and you are in. A new edition lands on the 1st of every month.