Understand Funding Programmes Before You Apply
Funding programmes often contain eligibility requirements, assessment criteria, restrictions, reporting obligations and conditions that are easy to overlook when reviewing lengthy guidance documents.
Our Funding Programme Analysis Tool reviews grant guidance, funding criteria, application packs and programme documentation to help you understand exactly what a funding body is looking for before you invest time preparing an application.
The assessment extracts key requirements, identifies eligibility criteria, highlights evidence expectations, summarises reporting obligations and explains how funding decisions are likely to be assessed according to the documents provided.
Which Funding Analysis Do You Need?
Small Grant & Personal Funding Analysis
Designed for individual grants, bursaries, scholarships and personal funding opportunities.
Typical examples include:
- Training grants
- Research bursaries
- Student funding
- Travel grants
- Conference funding
- Archaeology field school grants
- Educational awards
This assessment identifies:
- Who can apply
- What activities can be funded
- Eligibility requirements
- Assessment criteria
- Evidence applicants may need
- Reporting obligations
- Restrictions and exclusions
Universal Grant & Funding Programme Analysis
Our most widely applicable assessment, designed for organisations, clubs, charities, community groups and businesses exploring funding opportunities.
Typical examples include:
- Community grants
- Heritage funding programmes
- Archaeology project grants
- Sports club grants
- Local authority funding schemes
- Business support grants
- Charity funding programmes
This assessment identifies:
- Programme objectives
- Eligible organisations and activities
- Assessment criteria
- Funding restrictions
- Evidence requirements
- Monitoring and reporting obligations
- Application requirements
- Key risks and opportunities for applicants
Major Funding Programme Analysis
Designed for significant funding opportunities where eligibility, governance, financial controls and long-term delivery requirements are likely to be scrutinised in detail.
Typical examples include:
- National Lottery funding programmes
- Major heritage funds
- Capital project funding
- Strategic development programmes
- Large charitable trusts
- Major community investment programmes
- Large sports facility funding schemes
This assessment identifies:
- Governance expectations
- Financial and match-funding requirements
- Programme objectives and priorities
- Sustainability expectations
- Monitoring and evaluation requirements
- Risk management expectations
- Delivery and partnership requirements
- Long-term obligations attached to funding awards
Not Sure Which One To Choose?
| If you want to analyse… | Choose |
|---|---|
| A bursary, scholarship, training grant or personal funding opportunity | Small Grant & Personal Funding Analysis |
| A standard grant programme offered to clubs, charities, businesses or community groups | Universal Grant & Funding Programme Analysis |
| A major funding programme, capital scheme or strategic investment fund | Major Funding Programme Analysis |
If you are unsure which option best fits the programme, select the Universal Grant & Funding Programme Analysis.
Documents You Can Upload
The assessment is designed to analyse funding programme documentation and guidance.
- Funding guidance notes
- Grant criteria documents
- Scheme rules
- Programme handbooks
- Application guidance
- Eligibility criteria
- Assessment frameworks
- Funding prospectuses
- Programme terms and conditions
- Supporting policy documents
- Award conditions
- Funding programme websites converted to PDF
Where several related documents exist, they may be uploaded together for comparison and analysis.
What The Analysis Identifies
- Who is eligible to apply
- What activities can and cannot be funded
- Mandatory requirements
- Assessment criteria used by the funder
- Evidence expected from applicants
- Restrictions and exclusions
- Reporting and monitoring obligations
- Funding priorities
- Application deadlines and processes
- Potential risks, limitations and conditions
- Areas requiring further clarification
Suitable For
Archaeology & Heritage
- Heritage fund guidance
- Archaeology grant programmes
- Training bursaries
- Museum funding schemes
- Research grants
- Conservation funding opportunities
Community & Charity Sector
- Community grants
- Charitable trust programmes
- Local authority funding
- Volunteer support grants
- Community development schemes
Sports Clubs
- Sailing club grants
- Amateur rugby club funding
- Facility improvement grants
- Sports development programmes
- Participation funding opportunities
Businesses & Start-Ups
- Business support programmes
- Innovation grants
- Growth funding schemes
- Enterprise funding programmes
- Start-up support opportunities
How It Works
- Upload the funding guidance, criteria or programme documentation.
- Select the most appropriate Funding Analysis template.
- The assessment reviews the uploaded documents.
- Eligibility criteria, assessment factors, restrictions and obligations are identified.
- Download the results using the 📥 button within the tool.
- Use the findings to decide whether the funding opportunity is suitable before preparing an application.
Important
The assessment is an information extraction and document analysis tool only.
It does not determine whether an applicant will qualify for funding and does not replace professional legal, financial, grant-writing or funding advice.
The assessment identifies what is contained within the documentation provided and highlights potential requirements, restrictions and obligations described within those documents.
All findings are based solely on the uploaded material.
Ready To Analyse A Funding Opportunity?
Upload the funding guidance, programme criteria or grant documentation and receive a structured analysis of the requirements, opportunities, restrictions and obligations described within the scheme.