Funding Tips aims to help you in going about raising the required finance for your big ideas and projects, as well as approaches to funding application processes.

A few top tips for developing project proposals include:

• be clear and try to avoid technical jargon
• remember that funding programmes are tools, not projects themselves!
• Ask yourself the question what will be the measurable impact after the project is finished?

Key questions for evaluating innovation include:

• what untried and untested methods are being used?
• What new experiences are being introduced?
• How can the work become sustainable?