# Funding advice site launched for advocacy organisations

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2012/07/02/funding-advice-site-launched-advocacy-organisations/
- Published: 2012-07-02T10:15:00+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**A website has been created to provide advice on funding and bid writing for advocacy
organisations. Advocacy Funding features a free email course on how to produce better
tenders. It is also building up a series of weekly articles on advocacy bid writing
and service design.**

The site has been set up by Joe Roberson, a mental health advocacy manager turned
bid writer and service designer from Somerset. Over the next 12 months he intends
to produce 50 ‘how-to’ articles on bidding for tenders, applying for grants and 
improving performance and outcomes.

He explained why he set up the [Advocacy Funding](http://www.advocacyfunding.co.uk)
site.

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“Smaller advocacy organisations are at particular risk” he said, “as they often 
can’t afford in-house or external writers to produce their bids. This site should
help them to improve both their tender writing skills and their grant application
skills, whoever their client group is.”

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