Grant Finding Shouldn't Be a Full Time Job

"It's basically a full time job."

That's the phrase we hear more than any other from organisations and small businesses trying to access grant funding, and that's not an exaggeration.

Between researching eligible funds, writing tailored applications each time, chasing deadlines and satisfying reporting requirements, grant funding demands a level of sustained capacity that most small teams simply don't have.

The result: funding that is designed to support exactly these organisations often goes to the ones with the resources to chase it, not necessarily the ones doing the best work.

The Real Bottleneck

With years of combined experience working in community engagement, we've met countless excellent organisations, clubs and businesses doing incredible work, held back not by a lack of available funding, but by a lack of time and expertise to secure it.

There's no shortage of tools to help you find a grant. Free search platforms and low-cost databases have made that part relatively easy.

The hard part is what comes next: the application itself. That's where good projects lose out, not on merit, but on capacity.

Our Solution

We now offer a grant finding and application service, built specifically for organisations that can't justify a full time fundraiser but still need the funding.

With Mormaer Associates you get an experienced partner handling the research, writing, submission and follow up, not just a shortlist of funds you still have to apply for yourself.

Beyond the Application: Public Vote Campaigns

A growing number of major funds, including the popular Just Transition Participatory Fund, now decide awards partly or wholly through public vote. This changes the game. A strong application is no longer enough on its own; you also need a campaign that gets your community to actually show up and vote.

We've seen excellent, well deserved projects fall short here, not because the case wasn't strong, but because the engagement campaign didn't land.

Mormaer Associates builds and runs these campaigns end to end:

• Social media strategy and content

• Door to door engagement

• Community mobilisation and turnout planning

  
  

Get in Touch

If grant applications are costing you time you don't have, or you've lost a public vote fund before and don't want to lose the next one, we'd like to talk.

Contact us at info@mormaerassociates.com to discuss your organisation's funding needs.