Funding & Grants
Applying for funding and grants requires skill and experience, ensuring you are meeting the specific funding application requirements.
The Leafcutter team can assist with all your funding applications for community groups, grants for schools, charitable trusts, and Not For Profit (NFP) organisations. We can also assist with suggesting which Charitable Trusts to apply for funding.
We have extensive experience in writing applications for grants, fundraising and sponsorship requests. We have successfully secured funding for:
Community Groups, Charitable Trusts, Schools & Learning Centres, Clubs, Regional & National Organisations and Not For Profit.
Contact us today to find out how we can help.
Sustainable Funding Plans
We can assist with creating and developing a sustainable funding plan for your organisation, school, or community group. A sustainable funding plan means you can secure funds on an ongoing basis.
Grant Writing
Grant funds are typically given for a specific purpose, project or cost.
Leafcutter can assist you with the writing of grant applications – from community to government grants.
Templates, Project Plans & Budgets
We can assist you with creating templates, project plans, and budgets for your funding and grant applications - to help speed up the process and efficiencies.
Review Existing Documentation
Leafcutter can review and expand your existing policies, contracts, and funding applications to ensure best practice.
Accountability Reporting
Securing grant funding usually requires accountability measures including outcomes, expenditure, and success stories. Let Leafcutter assist you with providing this to ensure ongoing future funding.
Sponsorship
Sponsorship by businesses is a great way to raise funds for your community group. Leafcutter can help with sponsorship contracts and packages that meet the needs of businesses’ exposure expectations.
Fundraising
Leafcutter can help you with planning, and implementing ideas that will ensure you raise those vital funds to assist your community group, non-profit organisation, school or project.
Business Funding
Leafcutter can help new businesses, innovators, startups, entrepreneurs and businesses wishing to expand with grant applications, advice and general assistance.
OUR APPROACH
At Leafcutter Business Support, we follow a strategic and effective approach we call “The Three P's”.
Prepare
We start by understanding your needs and goals, researching funding opportunities, and aligning them with your mission.
Propose
We craft a compelling, tailored proposal that highlights your impact, with a clear, detailed budget and engaging narrative.
Progress
We handle the applications and deadlines, engage with funders, and provide ongoing support and reporting to maintain strong relationships.
This method ensures that every step is focused on achieving the best results for you.
Nicola Jacobson
Principal
Mount Aspiring College
"Leafcutter was incredibly helpful, and took all the stress out of the process of applying for grants. Communication was great, and critique of my initial application helped to sharpen the focus of the grant application in order to achieve a great result."
Nicola Keen-Biggelaar
Chief Executive
Drowning Prevention Auckland
"I just wanted to pop you a note of thanks. These are such beautifully written applications, and I can see you have really thought about Drowning Prevention Auckland, our positioning for best effect and had also done additional research."
Marty Toomy
Chief Executive
Winter Games NZ
"Claire and Bexs are diligent in their work and no task is too big or too small. They understand Winter Games NZ and the funding landscape and are experts at aligning projects with potential partners. The Leafcutter NZ team is made up of quality individuals and are an asset to any organisation they work with, or for. I recommend them 100%"
Ben Acland
Founder
Wānaka Men Shed
"Grant application writing skills are best left to experts, and Leafcutter have been an amazing asset for us. This has taken the stress of fundraising away and allowed us to focus on our trust Purpose.
Thanks to Leafcutter for being part of our journey."
