funding, granted.
You do the work. We help you fund it, run it and prove it.
Grant support is scattered across a dozen tabs, you've no time to chase it, and the compliance never stops. The Funding Village bundles live grant intelligence, hands-on application help, a compliance library and training — at one flat published price.
One fee.
Zero percent of your grant.
Apply as often as you like.
Flat membership, win or lose — the fee never moves.
Small organisations do the most with the least — and the support isn't built for you.
You're not a niche. You're the majority of the sector, carrying a big-charity compliance load on a fraction of the resource, right as the money moves toward grants.
No time to chase grants alone
Deadlines, eligibility rules and funder quirks live across a dozen scattered sources. Finding the three grants actually worth your week is a job in itself — before a word of the bid is written.
Compliance doesn't scale down
You face much the same policy, safeguarding and reporting burden as a national charity, with none of the back office. Around 62,000 CICs have registered since 2005 — roughly 41,000 active — and they cluster in the most deprived areas, exactly where resource is thinnest.
Re-explaining yourself to a new adviser, every time
Consultancy day rates are out of reach, and the free tools are generic with no human review. Nothing priced sits in the middle — a service that already knows your organisation.
The money is shifting to grants
Public giving has fallen from 82% to 67% of people since 2013/14, pushing small organisations toward grant funding just as it got harder to win.
registered charities in England & Wales — plus around 25,000 in Scotland and 8,000 in Northern Ireland.
of the sector runs on an income under £100,000 a year. That's your peer group.
get by on under £5,000 a year — the organisations the Community tier is built for.
total UK charity income in 2024/25 — and more of it is grant-driven than ever.
On Navca's wider count, England's voluntary, community and social-enterprise sector reaches around 495,000 organisations once grassroots groups are included.
Everything you'd otherwise assemble from a dozen places — in one membership.
These are the locked member benefits. What deepens as you move up the tiers is the amount of hands-on, done-for-you support — never the list itself.
Live grant intelligence & matching
The three to five grants actually worth your time this week, matched to what you do — with a plain note on why you'd win.
Hands-on application support
Tiered help, from expert review that keeps you as the author through to fully managed, done-for-you bids (see the tiers below).
A compliance & policy library
Ready-to-use policies, safeguarding and governance templates, refreshed monthly — authored from real practice, not scraped.
Training with CPD-style certificates
Short, practical courses with completion certificates your team and your funders can see.
Crowdfunding guidance & campaign support
Templates, draft reviews and, higher up, a done-with-you campaign plus match-funding introductions.
Corporate-sponsorship matching
A sponsorship pitch pack and a shortlist of local corporates and CSR funds — with warm introductions at the top tier.
Discounts with partner suppliers
Member rates on the things every organisation pays for — insurance, DBS, accounting. Platinum also gets a vetted staffing-agency discount.
An org-to-org partner directory
Find and team up with other member organisations for joint bids and shared learning — see the section below.
"Seen first" on Village Local
Priority placement on our free public community directory, putting your activities in front of local people first.
An advice line / help desk
A real person to ask, with response times that get faster as you move up — from a 48-hour help desk to same-day priority.
Partner with other organisations
Members can find and team up with other member organisations — for joint bids, shared learning and plain mutual support. You stop competing for the same pot alone and start building consortia that funders take seriously.
- 🤝 Search the partner directory by what you're looking for, what you can offer, and region.
- 🧩 Team up on larger, consortium-scale bids that a single small group can't reach.
- 📣 Share templates, lessons and warm introductions with organisations who get it.
One flat published price per tier. It never moves.
The fee is a membership subscription paid win or lose — we take 0% of any grant you secure. Higher tiers mean more concurrent hands-on support, not a bigger cut.
Community
Supports grant applications up to £4,999
Free forever — no card needed
- Grant-finder access & curated shortlist
- Sample policies + monthly newsletter
- Community forum
- Listed on Village Local
Silver
Supported funding up to £25,000
or £750/year — 25% off year one
- Everything in Community
- Full policy & session library, refreshed monthly
- 1 supported application at a time — coaching & review; you stay the named author
- CPD courses + certificates · 48-hour help desk
- Partner discounts · "seen first" on Village Local
Gold
Supported funding up to £100,000
or £3,750/year
- Everything in Silver
- 2 concurrent applications — done-for-you wherever the funder allows
- Impact + funder progress reports
- Sponsorship pitch pack + local CSR shortlist
- 24-hour advice line · quarterly strategy call
Platinum
Supported funding up to £250,000
or £15,000/year · capped at 15 organisations
- Everything in Gold
- 3 concurrent applications — fully managed pipeline
- Managed crowdfunding + homepage spotlight
- Warm sponsor introductions + brokered meeting
- Same-day priority · vetted staffing-agency discount
Apply as often as you like — the fee never moves.
From "where do we even start" to a plan in three steps.
Tell us about your organisation
Free, about five minutes. A few sharp questions about what you do, your size, and where you're stuck.
Get your tailored plan
A first-pass plan matched to a recommended tier — with no obligation to join. The plan is yours to keep either way.
Join and start applying
Join at the tier that fits and start straight away — or don't. There's no pressure, and no cut ever taken from what you raise.
A flat membership fee — not a percentage of your grant. You keep 100% of every pound you raise.
Some funders, including National Lottery Awards for All, don't allow consultant-written bids. That's why Silver keeps you as the named author, and Gold and Platinum only draft directly where the funder's own rules permit — support that's always clean for the funder.
The questions everyone asks first.
Do you take a cut of my grant?
Can I still apply to funders like Awards for All myself?
Can I cancel anytime?
Is Community really free forever?
Tell us about your organisation.
Free, no obligation, about five minutes. We'll send back a first-pass plan and a recommended tier — the plan is yours to keep whether you join or not.
Thank you — that's on its way.
Your email app should have opened with your details ready to send. If it didn't, email hello@thefundingvillage.org.uk and we'll take it from there. We'll reply with a tailored plan and a recommended tier — no obligation to join.