For culture organisations
Fundraising support for cultural organisations balancing ambition and capacity.
Bring projects, participation, heritage, audiences, access and organisational needs into one clear funding queue.
£1,195 per month · no VAT · rolling monthly
Unlimited suitable requests in one queue. One active request at a time. Personally delivered by Matt Simmonds.
The funding work is rarely one neat bid
Cultural work can span artistic quality, community benefit, place, learning, heritage and economic impact. A generic bid writer may flatten the story or miss the evidence funders actually need.
One person, one queue and one monthly price
Matt helps hold the detail together: the creative idea, who benefits, why now, how delivery works, what it costs and what credible change will follow.
Requests you can put in the queue
- Map grants and trusts against projects
- Shape a case for cultural and public value
- Write an application or expression of interest
- Prepare partner and board supporting material
You explain what you need in ordinary language. Matt reviews it, sends only the relevant questions and confirms when the request is ready. Your chosen ready priority becomes active; after review and up to two reasonable revision rounds, the next ready request begins.
Who this is for
Cultural organisations with multiple projects or mixed funder routes and an internal lead who can approve the work.
All applications, budgets, strategy, documents and conversations are confidential. Funding outcomes are never guaranteed and there is no success fee.
£1,195 rolling monthly
- Pay one month upfront
- Continue automatically month to month
- Cancel before the next payment
- Required onboarding included with no setup fee
- One 30-minute planning call each month
Questions about this monthly service
Can the service cover both arts and community funders?
Yes, where the organisation and activity are eligible. The approach changes with the funder rather than forcing every project into the same arts-funding language.
What does unlimited mean?
You can add as many suitable fundraising requests as you need to one queue. Matt works on one ready priority at a time. It does not mean unlimited simultaneous work, unlimited hours or a guaranteed number of completed applications.
Who does the work?
Matt Simmonds personally reviews, researches, writes and delivers the work. The founding service is not handed to an anonymous pool of writers.
How does the monthly agreement work?
The service costs £1,195, paid upfront for one month at a time. It renews monthly and you can cancel before the next payment. There is no setup fee and no refund once a paid month has started.