Strive Creative

Stop losing hours to grants that were never going to say yes

A weekly pipeline of funders with a direct connection to your charity, and the applications drafted for you. You read, approve, and move on.
Book a 20-minute call

You leave with 5 to 10 grants your charity can apply for this week, whether or not we work together.

Where the hours go

You're burning hours trying to find money

Most small charities have nobody on trusts and grants, so the CEO or fundraising manager does it themselves: hours on funder databases and guidance notes, squeezed around the actual job. And most of those hours go to funders that were never going to say yes.

The fix is not a longer list. It is a shorter one: funders with a direct connection to your cause, your region and your size, with the application already drafted.

A charity worker at a cluttered desk, head in hand, surrounded by printed grant guidance and a spreadsheet of funders

The weekly pipeline

What a week looks like

  1. Monday, one email

    A handful of funders land in your inbox, each with the reason it fits your charity and the deadline. Not a database dump: every one has a direct connection to what you do.

  2. Ten minutes, not an afternoon

    You read the why behind each funder and tap approve or skip. That is the whole job.

  3. Drafts, in your voice

    Approved funders come back as application drafts written from your charity's own case for support.

  4. You submit, you stay in control

    Nothing goes anywhere without your approval. Your charity signs and submits every application.

The Monday note email for a made-up charity: new funders to Apply or Skip, and a draft to sign off
A sample note for a made-up charity. Yours carries real funders, matched to your charity.

The first taste is free

Book the call, keep the list

Before we speak, we build your shortlist properly: 5 to 10 funders with a direct connection to your charity that you could apply to this week. The call walks through why each one fits, which is exactly what the weekly pipeline feels like.

If it is not for you, no hard feelings: the list is yours to keep and apply to anyway.

Book a 20-minute call

Built for UK charities with nobody on trusts and grants, where the CEO or fundraising manager is doing it themselves. Any cause, any region.

The straight answers

Qualification first

We would rather show you five right funders than fifty possibles. If a funder was never going to say yes, it never reaches your inbox.

Your charity submits

The drafts are written for you; approval, signing and submitting stay with you. You are the charity of record on everything.

No success fees

A fixed monthly fee, named on the call. We never take a percentage of the grants you win.

Your data stays yours

The pipeline is built from public grant records and your own case for support. Nothing is trained on your data.

Questions people ask

We already use a grant database or funding finder. What is different?
Those are databases: hundreds of possibles you still have to qualify and write for. This is a shortlist with the connection already found and the application already drafted. Your job goes from searching and writing to reading and approving.
Who actually submits the applications?
You do. We research, qualify and draft; your charity reviews, approves and submits every application in its own name.
What does it cost?
A fixed monthly fee, named on the call once we have seen your situation. No setup fee, no success fees, no percentage of grants won.
We already have a trusts fundraiser or consultant
Then this page is not aimed at you: it is built for charities with nobody on trusts and grants. We do work with consultants separately; mention it on the call.
Cam Harvey, founder of Strive Creative

If the problem is bigger than grants

Grants are one income line

If the website, online donations, donor records and hall bookings need the same rescue, that is a different job, and it is the one Charity OS does: one system built for UK charities. Have a look at Charity OS.