1You, once
Tell us about your work
Our questionnaire covers your organisation, who you help, the evidence of need, your costs and your track record. You can save your answers and come back to them.
✓ Your real work, in your own words
For UK charities, CICs and community groups
Stop staring at blank grant forms. Spend your energy on the work that matters.
BidBuilders matches your organisation to small-grant funders and drafts your application from a proper interview about your work. A real person reviews and edits every draft before it reaches you.
- ✓Funders matched to your type, size and area
- ✓One drafted bid a month, grants up to £20,000
- ✓Reviewed by a person, back within 10 working days
- ✓No commission on any grant you win
Not sure you're ready? Take the free 3-minute readiness checkerRegular bids? Six months for £150 — the Charter offerRun by All One Planet Ltd, UK
Why it exists
You started your organisation to help people, not to wrestle with funding portals.
When your energy goes on delivery and keeping things running, a grant form at 10pm is the last thing you need.
The usual way
Evenings lost to searching, guessing and blank pages
- Hunting through directories for funds that turn out to be closed, or not open to your kind of organisation.
- Turning real work into funder language when you're already tired.
- Paying a bid writer by the day, or on commission, which many funders won't let grant money cover.
Good projects go unfunded because nobody had the evening free.
The BidBuilders way
Matched funders and a reviewed first draft, from one conversation
- Funders that fit you. We match on what you are (charity, CIO, CIC or community group), how much you need, what you do and where you are.
- Built from your facts. The questionnaire asks what a good bid writer would ask. Anything we don't know is flagged for you, never made up.
- A flat fee. On the Charter offer that's £25 a month for six months. A single small grant can cover it.
You stay in charge of what gets submitted.Join the first ten →
How it works
From your answers to a ready-to-submit bid in three steps
2Us
We match you to funders
National Lottery Awards for All, Sport England, community foundations, council funds and supermarket schemes. We check the funder's current guidance before drafting.
✓ Only funders that fit your organisation
3Within 10 working days
You get a reviewed draft
A person reads and edits every draft before you see it. You check it, fill any gaps we've flagged, and submit it under your organisation's name. One round of changes is included.
✓ Nothing sent straight from a machine
Try it now · free
See three funders that back work like yours
Pick your organisation type, your focus and how much you need. These are real UK-wide funders from our list. Your full match also looks at funders in your local area.
Funders for charities · community · £2,000 to £10,000From the BidBuilders funder list
Amounts and opening dates change. We check each funder's current guidance before we draft anything.
10 of 10 Charter places left
Ten Charter Founder places, for the organisations that help shape BidBuilders
BidBuilders is new. The first ten organisations get six months at about half the monthly price. In return I'd value your honest feedback, and a short quote if the service helps you.
Six-month Charter place
Paid up front · then £49/month, our founder price for life
£150for 6 months
Included for six months
- One drafted funding application each month, for grants up to about £20,000 (Awards for All scale).
- Funder matching for your organisation type, size, focus and area.
- A person reviews every draft, with your reviewed draft within 10 working days of your completed questionnaire.
- One round of revisions on each bid.
- Then £49/month, locked for life. After six months your membership carries on at the founder price. We email you a few days before the first £49 payment, and you can cancel before then with one email.
Monthly membership
Pay as you go
£49per month
Included each month
- One drafted funding application, grants up to about £20,000
- Funder matching for your organisation
- Human review, with your draft within 10 working days
- One round of revisions
- Cancel any time by email
How the two compare over six months
| Monthly, 6 × £49 | £294 |
| Charter place | £150 |
| Charter saves | £144 |
Need more than one bid a month, or a bigger grant? Email grants@bidbuilders.co.uk and we'll agree a fair flat price. No commission, ever.
ColinFounder, BidBuilders
All One Planet Ltd
All One Planet Ltd
A note from the founder
Why I built BidBuilders, and why I read every draft myself
As a director of a small North Tyneside community interest company, I kept seeing the same thing: brilliant community work, and funding the organisation was eligible for, left on the table because the admin of applying was too heavy for a small team with no spare evenings.
I built BidBuilders to take that weight off small organisations, so a good project isn't lost to a blank form. The drafting starts from a proper interview about your work, and I review and edit every draft before it reaches you. Nothing is sent straight from a machine, and nothing is made up.
Colin
Plain answers
Frequently asked questions
Can a CIC apply, or is this only for registered charities?
CICs are welcome, and so are registered charities, CIOs and constituted community groups. Many funders accept CICs. National Lottery Awards for All does, for example, as long as you meet its governance rules, such as having at least two unrelated people on your board. We only match you to funders that are open to your kind of organisation, and we check eligibility before drafting.
How long does a draft take?
We aim to deliver your reviewed draft within 10 working days of receiving your completed questionnaire. If we've flagged any gaps, filling those in quickly helps.
Do you submit the application for us?
No. You stay in charge. We give you a reviewed draft written to the funder's questions, with any missing facts flagged. You check it, add anything we couldn't know, and submit it under your organisation's name. One round of revisions is included on each bid.
What happens after the six Charter months?
Your membership carries on at £49 a month, our founder price, which stays the same for as long as you're a member, even after the price for new members rises. We'll email you a few days before the first £49 payment. If you'd rather stop, reply to that email before the date and nothing more is charged.
Why not just use ChatGPT?
Generic AI bids tend to assert need instead of evidencing it, invent statistics and read like everyone else's. Ours start from a structured interview about your organisation, never invent a fact (gaps are flagged for you), and a person who understands grant funding from inside a community organisation reviews every word. See a sample draft.
Do you take a percentage of the grant?
Never. Paying a fundraiser commission has long been treated as poor practice in UK fundraising, and funders commonly won't let grant money pay for it. You pay a flat fee and every pound you're awarded stays with your organisation.