Involving your users
This page contains information on how to involve users in making a grant application for funding.
It is important to show funders/ grant makers that your users, the people who will benefit from the work you are trying to get funded, are committed to the ideas you are putting forward. Funders do not like the idea that you know what is best for them. Rather they want to see your users have been fully involved in helping to shape the project plans. This can be done in a number of ways
Involvement of users and ex-users in running the organisation
Do you have users or former users on your management committee? If not, do you have people that can speak with real knowledge and sympathy on behalf of the users, aside from paid members of staff?
The involvement of users and ex-users in running the programme
Will users work or volunteer on the project? Will they be part of the project steering group? Can you prove that the kind of people who will be benefiting from the work of the project will also have a say in how it is delivered?
The involvement of users in drawing up and planning/managing the project
Show that you don’t know best and that you are not trying to impose your ideas, but that the plans and ideas have come from those who really know – your users. This can be done through user groups, questionnaires, community surveys and such like.
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