Red Tape Busters

This is Case Study 5 in our series of grant writing articles highlighting different cases and strategies we at Red Tape Busters have worked on since we commenced business in 2000. This article will focus on how to create some “selling” points when preparing a grant application for a rural based organisation. The skilled grant writer will be able to easily “sell” the project and the need for funding if the organisation is based in a rural or remote area. Rarely if ever are we unsuccessful with a grant submission for a rural or remote organisation. With this particular organisation they were seeking funding for a youth based training and skills development program. Given most of the youth had left town over the years and the general population numbers were dwindling the organisation felt they did not really have a sound case to pursue funding. Our skilled grant writer however initially worked with the client on their project and worked hard to identify what sorts of training an

As we have discussed in this series of case studies previously, tender writing is far more than being the cheapest price. Yes tender writing success does depend to a degree on price but the skilled tender writer will be able to develop a “sales” pitch which sets their tender apart from the competition and price will then become just one of many key platforms from which the organisation can launch a successful bid. In this Case Study our client was seeking our assistance in winning a tender with Woolworths to provide supermarket trolleys. Our client was an Australian based company wanting to challenge overseas importers. This was going to be a very tough task for our grant writer seeing the overseas companies were buying the raw materials cheaply overseas and were then paying cheap labour to construct the trollies. We were able to convince our client to source raw materials also from overseas at a good price but source materials and parts that exceeded Australian standards. In