Upgrade Your Grant Application with Expert Feedback

GrantTree’s Grant Review service turns your application from falling short to funded with comprehensive, easy-to-implement guidance from a grants assessor working with the body you’re applying to.

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What is a Grant Review?

Innovation grants are extremely competitive. Good applications are rarely good enough. 

GrantTree’s Grant Review service helps you turn a promising bid into a successful one by providing one or more rounds of expert feedback from an active grants assessor. All of our assessors have decades of experience reviewing and writing winning applications. This rare combination of skills makes them the perfect guides on your journey towards grant success. 

We can connect you with assessors from a wide range of funding bodies, including UKRI, Innovate UK and the European Innovation Council. See below for the full list of bodies we work with.

What's Included in a Grant Review?

Our Grant Review service delivers a wealth of insights to help companies improve their chances of winning an innovation grant. Here’s what you’ll receive.

Analysis

A comprehensive analysis of your application, explaining where it falls short

Guidance

Step-by-step instructions on how to improve each of your answers and appendix

90-minute call

Where your assessor explains their recommendations and answers your questions

Insight

A rare window into assessors' minds, improving your grant-writing skills

How Does a Grant Review Work?

We get to know you and your company

Our grant experts get to know your company, your project and your application. This initial assessment helps us understand how best we can help you secure grant funding.

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We pair you with an assessor

We connect you with a consultant currently assessing applications for the award body you’re applying to. We agree on timelines and share your application for assessment.

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You receive your Grant Review

In as little as 48 hours, the assessor will share a detailed analysis of your application, explaining where it falls short and providing question-by-question recommendations for how to improve it. The assessor will share their analysis in a written report and talk you through it on a call.

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Additional reviews

If you want to make your application even stronger, we can organise further rounds of reviews, which will give you additional expert recommendations and ensure you have correctly incorporated previous guidance. 

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GrantTree’s Assessor Network

Our network of assessors has been carefully assembled to offer you easy-to-implement, experience-based recommendations that will significantly strengthen your application. Every one of the assessors in our network:

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To learn more about our Grant Review service or request support for your application, just fill out the contact form below, and one of our team will be right with you.

FAQs

How long does a Grant Review take?

A Grant Review typically takes 48 hours, ensuring you have time before your deadline to both receive and implement one or more rounds of expert recommendations.

Within 48 hours, you will receive your assessor’s written analysis and recommendations. We will then schedule your follow-up call with your assessor, who will explain their feedback and answer any questions you have.

Who will perform my Grant Review?

Your Grant Review will be delivered by a consultant who is currently reviewing grant applications for the funding body you are looking to apply to. For example, Innovate UK or the European Innovation Council.

In addition to currently reviewing applications, your assessor will have won multiple innovation grants. This combination of expertise means that your assessor will not only be able to identify where your application is falling short, but they will also be able to tell you how to improve it, significantly increasing your chances of success.

What do I need to provide for a Grant Review?

Our Grant Review service provides comprehensive, easy-to-action recommendations for strengthening your draft application. 

To conduct a Grant Review, we will need from you:

  • Your draft application
  • Your project plan
  • Your risk register

If you need help preparing any of these documents, our grants experts would be happy to help. Just get in touch.

What other services does GrantTree offer?

In addition to Grant Review, GrantTree offers a number of other services designed to maximise your chances of winning an innovation Grant.

Full Service Write – Our experts write your grant for you, calling on decades of bid-winning experience to demonstrate the power of your innovation and put forward a compelling argument for why you deserve funding.

Grants Collaborate – We equip your team with the skills and insights they need to prepare a competitive application. Combined with multiple Grant Reviews, this service is designed to enable your team to win transformative funding from currently open calls.


Bespoke – Looking for something else? Through our bespoke offering, we can combine different elements of our grant services into a unique package tailored to your specific needs. To find out more, just get in touch.