Feeding Futures: Why Losing HAF Funding Would’ve Been a Recipe for Disaster

Celebrating the Renewal of HAF Funding After all of our work with HAF teams, we’re breathing a sigh of relief to see that funding for the Holiday Activities and Food (HAF) programme has been renewed for another year. This decision ensures that the invaluable work done by local councils,

7 (Mostly Terrible) Ideas to Shake Up Charity Funding

Right now, charity funding in the UK feels like watching a much-loved first car slowly fall apart. Bits are starting to fall off, it doesn't run quite as smoothly as it used to, and some of the parts have given up completely. But no one can afford a

An update on no-win, no-fee

We're not doing it anymore. OK, but what on earth are you talking about? Fair question. A few months ago, we wrote a couple of posts about offering an AI bid-writing tool for charities to use for grant applications on a no-win, no-fee basis. I guess you could

Using AI to fix grant-making

Why we think grant-making needs to improve, how we think our platform can support that, and why the model we’re offering enables it.

No-win, no-fee "fundraising"

Today we've made a big change to the pricing of our AI grant writer. We've moved towards a no-win, no-fee commission based model. But is this unethical or illegal?

How to write an AI policy for your charity

Have you started to use AI to support your charity’s mission? Congrats, you’re ahead of the curve. Only 27 out of 100 charities have got there so far, according to The Charities Digital Skills Report. But as is common when you’re an early adopter, you might find

How our AI Grant Writer tool works

You might have guessed, but for our AI Grant Writing tool, we are using AI to make it all work. When we tell people this, they come up with lots of questions such as: * What is AI? * How does it work? * How do you make the answers personalised to us?

Paragraph Pollution: AI is (probably) greener than you typing on a laptop

When you use ChatGPT, are you worried about a potentially massive environmental cost? You probably shouldn't be. While it's a familiar worry, as it's something we applied to other new innovations like fast fashion or cryptocurrencies, we’d make the case that it’s

Grant Me Serenity: Introducing our AI Grant Writer.

We've taught an AI to find and write grant applications, massively cutting the time needed for everyone involved, and potentially saving charities hundreds of millions of pounds per year.

Why Plinth?

As a new university term starts, it seems like a good time to reinvent ourselves. We’ve dyed our hair green, and we’re going to see if we can get a new name to catch on. But this isn’t just a phase. Our newfound identity, "Plinth,"

HAF - the Sticking Plaster of the Future?

We all know that the Holiday Activity and Food Programme was hastily assembled to respond to a PR crisis. And it’s clearly not enough to solve deep-rooted issues of child poverty. But from the chaos emerged an extremely interesting model: * Trust in Local Authorities to manage the programme * A

Searching outside the Council streetlight.

Council support can be unintentionally directed to those they have most contact with; not necessarily the people most in need.