FundingBid is a simple online tool that helps you write your own National Lottery Awards for All England application. Write each answer in your own words, rough notes are fine, then get help to make it stronger. Every answer is checked against the word limits, ready to copy into the form.
For community groups and organisations applying to National Lottery Awards for All England.
One-off prices. No subscription. No VAT to add. Each purchase covers one Awards for All England application.
FundingBid is made for Awards for All England and nothing else. The questions, word limits and budget checks all match that form.
The lottery asks groups to write their own applications. You bring the facts, the ideas and what your community has told you. FundingBid helps you put them across clearly. You check every word and submit it yourself.
Names, dates of birth and bank details go straight into the lottery's form. They never pass through FundingBid.
About 16 weeks after you finish, we'll ask how you got on. If you weren't funded this time, you can apply again once you've had the lottery's decision, and we'll give you 25% off your next FundingBid application when you tell us the result.
Yes. The lottery says you should write your own application, and it doesn't accept applications written for you by consultants or bid writers. FundingBid works within that: you answer the questions, you edit and approve every answer, and you submit it yourself. The lottery's guidance also says it won't reject an application just because a tool was used to help write it, as long as the content is accurate and specific to your project.
No. FundingBid is a tool that helps you write your own application. Everything in it comes from your answers. You write each answer. The tool can suggest a stronger version, which you choose to use or not, and you approve and submit it.
It looks at one of your answers and suggests a stronger version, using only what you've written, and asks about anything important that's missing. You choose "Use this version" or "Keep mine". Editing your own wording is always free and unlimited.
The lottery itself says it funds around 1 in 3 applications, so a "no" is common and nothing to be ashamed of. We can't promise any application will be funded. If you're turned down, you can apply again once you've had the lottery's decision. Tell us your result and you'll get 25% off your next FundingBid application.
No. We never ask for bank details, dates of birth, home addresses or contact names. You add those directly into the lottery's own form.
Community groups and organisations applying to National Lottery Awards for All England. That includes CICs, CIOs, charities, community groups, and parish and town councils. The project must be in England. Individuals and profit-making businesses can't apply to Awards for All.
It shouldn't, because you write it. The questions ask for the specific detail funders look for: real numbers, what local people said and what will change. The more you put in, the more it sounds like you.
Yes. Your answers save as you go. Use the link in your email, or sign in here, to pick up where you left off.
Yes. The free demo shows the whole tool with a made-up group. Nothing is saved, and the suggestions are samples.