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Top 6 reasons that great projects don’t get their grants
Howard Lake | 12 March 2013 | News
Here are some useful tips from BIG Scotland on how to secure funding from them, and to secure it as promptly as possible.
They fund make small or medium size grants (mostly up to £10k, some up to £50k), but often have to delay payments to recipients because of basic errors in providing the information they require. Here are the six most common errors by would-be grants recipients.
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About Howard Lake
Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale.
He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.