Developing a Powerful Bid

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Developing a Powerful Bid

• Sally Betts
• NIACE

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Exit
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The Idea

• What is your idea?
• Why is the project needed?
• Who are the beneficiaries?
• Has it been done before?
• How is your idea different?
• What will you include that is innovative?

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Why should my organisation be involved in a partnership bid? Why should my organisation be involved in a partnership bid? Why should my organisation be involved in a partnership bid? Why should my organisation be involved in a partnership bid?
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TOTALS
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Good Practice

• Involve all key staff in the bid writing process
• Ensure senior managers support the bid
• Form Partnerships
• External evaluation have an interim report that
  informs the rest of the project
• Set your own deadline- before the actual one
• Get a volunteer (with no prior knowledge) to read
  and score your bid

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Bid Prepared

• Mind map of ideas
• Potential partner contact details
• Potential beneficiary research data
• Details of projects undertaken in the last 3
  years
• Pre-write some of the sections
• Quality standards held, inspection results,
  quality processes, processes to assure quality of
  partners
• Management of project, key personnel (CVs,
  profiles), how will you monitor?
• Equal opportunities recruitment of
  beneficiaries staff
• Use of ICT on the project management,
  efficiency
• HS of beneficiaries, partners

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Find Funding

• NIACE projects
• www.aclearn.net Apollo
• Government funded
• www.governmentfunding.org.uk (VCS)
• European projects
• www.esf.gov.uk
• www.gos.gov.uk
• http//ec.europa.eu/grants/index_en.htm
• Lottery Funded
• www.lotteryfunding.org.uk