Grant Applications Are a Full-Time Job. They Don't Have to Be.
The average small business spends 20 hours per grant application. That’s half a working week - researching eligibility, reformatting your business info, writing to someone else’s structure. And most of the time, you don’t even get it. The success rate for first-time applicants is under 20%.
The research alone is exhausting
There are thousands of grants available at any given time. Government, local authority, industry-specific, innovation funds, diversity programmes. Finding the ones you’re actually eligible for means hours on databases, reading criteria documents, cross-referencing deadlines. Most founders give up before they even start writing.