What do you need help with?
Funding Direction
A route recommendation, the main risks and what to prepare.
£45Check my route →I have a draftReview & Strengthening
Clear feedback on the repair or facilities case, readiness, public use and financial narrative, with unanswered questions for your team.
From £95Review my draft →The idea needs shapingProject Packaging
Bring the activities, partners, outcomes and budget together before writing.
From £175Shape my project →Write it for meComplete Writing
A first-stage or invited Large Grant application based on your technical material, funding position and plans for the building.
Fixed quoteAsk for a fixed quote →What this application needs.
Large Grants have an initial eligibility stage and a fuller application by invitation. Repairs and facilities have different cost thresholds. This is late-stage funding: permissions, professional oversight and at least half the project funding need to be in place for the relevant assessment. Check the rules for your nation and project type.
Check current eligibility, deadlines and assistance rules. This page does not confirm that a round is open.
Considering another route?
Compare the support available. Each fund has its own eligibility rules.
I check the funder’s assistance rules before accepting writing work. Where you must write it yourself, I offer planning or feedback instead.
What to send and how the quote works
A short outline is enough to start.
- Building location, denomination and current use
- Survey or inspection report and proposed scope of works
- Professional costings, permissions and project timetable
- Funding raised, remaining gap and application stage
Writing is quoted for your brief. Reviews start at £95. Scope, complexity and the application stage determine the final fee. Later stages and extra review rounds are agreed separately. No payment on this form.
I do not replace your architect, surveyor or conservation adviser. A standalone community building is not automatically an eligible place of worship.
From your rough notes
to a complete written draft.
Research, writing and one agreed round of refinements.
Why the work is needed
Use your professional reports to explain the condition, urgency and proposed solution. Keep technical conclusions with your advisers.
A building with a future
Show worship, wider public use and how the building will be cared for after the work.
Ready to deliver
Connect permissions, contractor estimates, fundraising and timing so the application describes the same project throughout.
Check and refine
You check the facts and missing information. I make one agreed round of refinements; you approve and submit.
You receive an editable draft and submission checklist, with missing facts flagged. You approve it and submit to the funder.
Read the writing before you hire me.
A genuine application extract. Only identifying details have been redacted; the wording is retained.
Browse all writing extracts →Real applications.
Personal support.
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Matt supported me throughout my Paul Hamlyn Foundation application, which was successful. He demonstrated profound respect for the background of my application, which focused on Ballroom Culture, and articulated my points clearly to the panel.
The review was very detailed and clearly structured, so it was easy for me to update my application and submit it in time.
I am really grateful to Matt for reviewing my DYCP application. He provided clear, detailed feedback with explanations for each proposed change.
Send me the fund,
the deadline, and the idea.
Two or three sentences are enough. I’ll reply personally with the right service, scope and fixed quote.
No commitment until you agree the quote.
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Quick answers.
Yes, using the findings and costings from your appointed professionals. I do not diagnose the building or certify the repair specification.
The Trust distributes some partner funding through its process. We check the relevant options in the current form; extra awards are not automatic.
Independent support from Matthew Simmonds, not the funder or an approved supplier. I check the current route and outside-assistance rules before agreeing work. You approve all facts, figures and commitments and submit the application. Funding is never guaranteed.
Clear feedback on the repair or facilities case, readiness, public use and financial narrative, with unanswered questions for your team. It is not a complete rewrite. I confirm the fee and scope before payment.
I do not replace your architect, surveyor or conservation adviser. A standalone community building is not automatically an eligible place of worship.
A bid writer who works
inside the arts.
I’m Matthew Simmonds, Co-Artistic Director of Strange Futures, an Arts Council England-funded theatre company. I’m also a theatre maker, performer and facilitator.
I know the work behind the form. I work with individual artists, small organisations and charities, from a first application to NPO bids, multi-year community funding and longer-term planning. My job is to make the next step clearer and keep your own voice in the writing.
Matt Simmonds More about Matt →Working on another application?
Arts, charity, community and heritage support, with the same personal approach.