French Phillips supports charities, social enterprises, private companies, and others, to effectively apply for heritage sector grants and funding.
We work with museums, charities, trusts and local authorities and help them develop plans that have a lasting social impact. You may be surprised by how cost-effective it is to use us to support your bid writers.
We have a proven approach to contributing to winning tenders and want to help you to write the best tender response to showcase your goods and services.
We bring private and public sector tendering experience to improve your win rate.
We would strongly urge you to contact us so that – at no cost to you – together we can chat through exactly what it is you wish to achieve and what you expect. We can then design a bespoke package to suit your requirements.
An example of a successful bid led by Dr Craig French for The John Muir Trust –
to compile a development plan for a £0.4 million Heritage Lottery Fund grant that included: planning, development and implementation of stakeholder survey and analysis; provision of a research analysis of John Muir Award partnerships in England – current and potential; an audit of strategic opportunities (including key organisations and key contacts) to link the John Muir Award to national agendas and policies; the development of an action plan – based on HLF application targets and existing work plans; a contribution to budget projections– based on HLF application and activity plan; and a provision of an evidence base for grant application and recommendations for models of delivery.
The quality and quantity of information – delivered under significant time pressure – has exceeded my expectations. A well-balanced combination of collaboration, consultation, productivity and enjoyment has been very much in evidence. Working with Mercator over the past 2 months has been a very positive experience for John Muir Trust staff.
Rob Bushby, John Muir Award Manager for the UK, The John Muir Trust
The key to the ultimately successful bid was a focus on ensuring that we didn’t just tell the client what we could do for them, but instead worked hard to determine exactly what it was that they needed, and then in cooperation with them produced the result that they were happy with.
French Phillips Historical Consultancy 