Grant Discovery & Matching: Understand the client's project and growth plans, then identify and shortlist the grant schemes best aligned to their needs.

Grant Roadmapping: Plan a forward roadmap of grants beyond the first application, aligned with each stage of the client's growth.

Agency Touchpoint Identification: Identify the appropriate agency contact or channel for the project, so the application is directed correctly from the outset.

Pre-Submission Alignment: Engage the relevant agency early to confirm scheme fit and requirements, ensuring the full application is well scoped and complete before submission.

Application Planning: Advise on the key components of the application to ensure the project is presented clearly and in line with scheme requirements.

Application Preparation: Build all application assets, including project proposals, costing tables, financial forecasts, and other materials required by the agency. Check and organize documents provided by the client to ensure completeness and suitability for submission.

Proposal Development: Present the project's merits and expected impact clearly, mapped against each scheme's stated evaluation criteria.

Application Submission: Guide clients step by step through the relevant online portal, such as the Business Grants Portal (BGP), in line with the agency's defined channels and procedures..

Evaluation Support: Help clients navigate the assessment process with grant agencies, ensuring queries are addressed promptly and clearly.

Strategic Responses: Support clients in preparing factually accurate and appropriate responses to every round of enquiry from the grant evaluators.

Project Coordination: Support clients with timely follow ups on application revisions, as requested by grant evaluators.

Offer Analysis: Review the offer, highlighting key terms, deliverables, and potential pitfalls for the client to be aware of.

Documentation Framework: Set up a tracking framework for project related documents from the outset, so clients have everything organized and ready when it comes time to claim.

Claims Preparation: Provide clients with a claims strategy and documentation blueprint, aligned with the offer letter's requirements.

Deliverable Feasibility Review: Where a deliverable appears difficult to achieve as scoped, work with the client and the agency to confirm a realistic path forward, supporting smoother claims and disbursement outcomes.

Acceptance: Coordinate offer acceptance procedures.

Project Monitoring: Track progress against the grant offer timeline and stipulations, flagging deviations early so they can be addressed before they affect claims.

Milestone Claims: Prepare and submit milestone based claims as each stage is completed, keeping disbursements on track where the scheme allows for it.

Interim Claims Handling: Manage claims disbursed across earlier milestones ahead of project completion, keeping each submission accurate and properly documented as the project progresses.

Documentation Compliance: Maintain records, such as signed quotations, invoices, payslips, and delivery orders, in line with the offer letter's qualifying period, expenditure, and deliverable conditions, so nothing is scrambled together at claim time.

Variation Handling: Manage timeline extensions and scope amendments through the formal process, preparing complete requests to support a smooth agency review.

Claims Management: Manage the end to end claims process, helping clients avoid common pitfalls that could delay or affect disbursement.

Claims Preparation: On project completion, assist the client in preparing for claims, including checking vendor invoices and bank statements against expenses paid, completing final project reports, and engaging claims auditors.

Documentation Consolidation: Consolidate and prepare all other paperwork required for claims submission.

Submission Support: Support the submission of claims on the grant agency's dedicated portal, in accordance with their process.

Audit Support: Provide guidance in drafting accurate, complete responses to every round of enquiry from the claims auditors, and facilitate engagement with external grant auditors where required.

Query Resolution: Work through auditor questions thoroughly, aiming for a clean and efficient close to the audit process.

Disbursement Administration: Once claims are approved, help the client manage the administrative steps for disbursement of claims monies into their bank account.