For charities, CICs and community organisations

Write stronger grant applications in less time

Grant Resource Studio™ helps charities, CICs and community organisations organise their evidence, experience and past applications into a Funding Knowledge Base they own. Your team can then use AI to draft from agreed information about your work, with less searching and rewriting.

Start with free resources for organising a reusable knowledge document, carrying context between AI sessions and reviewing a draft. Each works independently.

For specialist help, commission a Funding Knowledge Base and a tested drafting workflow your team owns and maintains.

Enquire about setting up a resource →
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Free to use, independently

Start with the job you need to do

Choose the resource that fits your current work.

Open downloads, without registration. Use one resource or combine them around your own files.

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01 · Free · Available now

Grant Readiness Starter Kit

Organise your knowledge for AI-assisted grant writing.

You bring
Existing information and evidence about your organisation.
You obtain
Practical instructions, a blank document and a fictional example.
Read the Starter Kit →

03 · Free · Available now

Application Review Kit

Check a draft against a funder’s requirements.

You bring
A draft and this round’s funder requirements. Add a checkable knowledge document or maintained fact base and supporting evidence for deeper checks.
You obtain
A written report and short HTML summary for human verification.
Read the Application Review Kit guide →
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Commissioned support

A Funding Knowledge Base built around your work

Past applications, evidence and your team’s experience become an approved asset: an account of the organisation, a developed Case for Support, and reference material for recurring grant questions.

GRS reviews your sources, resolves gaps with you and builds an agreed drafting workflow. You review the content, test using it and take ownership of the finished knowledge.

The same knowledge can also support reporting, partnerships, donor communications and wider funding conversations.

See what your team receives, or explore a fictional Funding Knowledge Base sample.

Applications alongside running the organisation

You fit applications around running the organisation, often in a team of one to ten. You rewrite earlier answers, search old files for evidence, or spend time correcting generic AI drafts.

The build is a one-off engagement at a fixed fee, set so that a small or medium-sized organisation can pay for it from unrestricted funds without needing a grant that covers it. If useful, initial setup of the free Working Context System and Application Review Kit can be included in the same fixed fee when workable. If you would like help setting up one of the published resources, get in touch to discuss what you need and whether the setup is workable in your tools.

Supporting members or grantees? Explore the partner route →

The foundation comes first

Why AI-assisted grant writing needs your organisational knowledge

An AI assistant can write a fluent answer while knowing very little about your organisation. If it has only a short description, your team still has to supply the evidence, explain how the work helps people and correct general wording.

A Funding Knowledge Base gives the assistant reviewed material to draw on: what you do, the evidence behind it and language your team has agreed. When a funder asks what difference your work makes, the draft can use your own outcomes and supporting evidence. You can spend more of the application working on the funder’s question and the proposed project.

The same knowledge can be reused for the next application. Your team adds current project details and costs, checks the funder’s requirements and reviews the draft. New evidence and changes enter the knowledge only after approval.

How the work is put together → · See how the same question changes with better context →

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Two-minute whiteboard explainerSee why the foundation comes firstWatch on YouTube ↗

Knowledge, context and review, working together

Organised knowledge supplies the facts. Working context carries agreed instructions across sessions. Structured review checks the draft. Each practice is useful independently, around a Starter Kit document or a full FKB.

See how the Grant Readiness Ecosystem works →
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From a full FKB build at Early Years Cocoon

Less repeated application preparation

10–20 hours → 3–6 hours

EYC reported this reduction once its core knowledge was structured and approved. It is the originating implementation, not a controlled comparison or a forecast for download users.

Read the case study and dated results →
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Choose a useful next step

A discovery call covers your material, tools, reviewers and intended outcome. Or start with an open resource today.