What we do
Joined-up support for funding, growth, delivery and change
Choose a focused service or combine several areas of support around a larger objective. We can work as an adviser, provide hands-on delivery capacity or operate as an extension of your team for an agreed period.
01 — Funding
Funding Strategy and Grant Support
Find the right opportunities, build a persuasive case and meet funder requirements with confidence.
A strong funding application starts before the writing. We help you assess readiness, focus on the most relevant opportunities and bring together the outcomes, evidence, budget and delivery plan that funders expect.
Best suited to charities, CICs, social enterprises, community organisations and other eligible purpose-led organisations. Funding decisions remain with the funder, so we focus on quality, fit, evidence and a disciplined application process rather than making promises about outcomes.
Discuss your funding prioritiesOur support can include
- — Funding strategy and income-generation planning
- — Research into trusts, foundations, grants, sponsorships and relevant programmes
- — A prioritised funding pipeline with eligibility and deadline information
- — Grant-readiness reviews and evidence gathering
- — Cases for support, project narratives and impact statements
- — Full application writing, editing and quality assurance
- — Project budgets, cost assumptions and delivery plans
- — Monitoring, evaluation and funder reporting
Our support can include
- — Tender readiness and opportunity assessment
- — Bid/no-bid discussions and response planning
- — Portal, framework or Dynamic Purchasing System registration support
- — Selection questionnaires, PQQs, expressions of interest and ITT responses
- — Compliance matrices, response structures and submission plans
- — Writing, editing, proofing and quality review
- — Case studies, method statements, policies and supporting evidence
- — Pricing and costing coordination with your finance or commercial lead
- — Clarification questions, post-submission review and lessons learned
02 — Bid & Tender
Bid and Tender Support
Develop compliant, buyer-focused submissions for public and private-sector opportunities.
Winning contracts requires more than answering the questions. We help you understand the buyer, organise the evidence and present a clear proposition that is responsive, credible and easy to evaluate.
We support voluntary-sector suppliers, social enterprises, start-ups, SMEs and private companies competing for public, private and partnership contracts.
Talk to us about an upcoming bid03 — Organisation Setup
Organisation Setup, Governance and Growth
Create strong foundations, clearer plans and governance that supports confident decisions.
Whether you are starting a purpose-led organisation or strengthening an established one, we help translate your purpose into a workable structure, plan and set of responsibilities.
Formation support
We provide practical incorporation and setup support for organisations considering or establishing structures such as:
- — Company Limited by Guarantee
- — Community Interest Company (CIC)
- — Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO)
- — Registered charity
- — Social enterprise or other purpose-led trading model
Growth and governance support
- — Mission, vision, purpose and strategic priorities
- — Business plans, delivery plans and business cases
- — Roles, responsibilities and governance information
- — Core policies and operational documentation
- — Board or trustee reporting packs and action tracking
- — Risk, issue and decision logs
- — Stakeholder mapping, engagement and partnership development
- — Review of organisational readiness for growth or new funding
Private companies, start-ups and SMEs can also use this service for business planning, growth readiness, governance routines and management reporting. Eklipse provides practical business and incorporation support; where legal, tax or regulated advice is needed, we will recommend appropriate specialist input.
Strengthen your foundations04 — Delivery & Performance
Project, Finance and Performance Support
Bring structure, financial control and useful evidence to projects, services and decisions.
We support organisations that have an important programme to deliver, a reporting gap to resolve or a finance and performance workstream that needs additional leadership and capacity.
Project & programme delivery
- — Scope, outcomes, milestones and delivery planning
- — Workstream coordination, dependencies and action tracking
- — Risk, issue, change and decision management
- — Stakeholder, supplier and partner coordination
- — Steering group updates and board-ready reporting
- — Interim project or workstream leadership
Finance & costing
- — Project budgets and financial monitoring
- — Costing models, cost assumptions and resource analysis
- — Income and expenditure reporting
- — Forecasting support and budget-holder information
- — Audit evidence, controls and reporting readiness
Performance & impact
- — KPIs, monitoring frameworks and management information
- — Data-quality review and reporting improvement
- — Benchmarking, productivity and service insight
- — Monitoring, evaluation and impact reporting
- — Benefits tracking and continuous-improvement actions
Support can be commissioned as a short diagnostic, a defined project, an interim workstream lead or ongoing advisory capacity.
Discuss your delivery or reporting challenge05 — Capacity Building
Capacity Building, Leadership and Training
Develop confident leaders, capable teams and practical ways of working that sustain performance and change.
Our learning and development support is designed around your strategy, operating context and real work. We begin with the capabilities your organisation needs, then shape content, delivery and follow-up around the people who will use it.
Leadership & management development
Tailored development for new and experienced managers, project leads, trustees, founders and team leaders.
- — Leading with clarity, purpose and accountability
- — Turning strategy into priorities and delivery
- — Leading teams through change and uncertainty
- — Stakeholder influence and collaborative leadership
- — Decision-making, delegation and performance conversations
- — Team effectiveness, feedback and continuous improvement
- — Financial confidence for non-finance leaders
- — Governance and reporting for trustees, boards and senior teams
Business transformation & change enablement
We help you turn an intended change into a practical roadmap and build the routines needed to maintain momentum.
- — Current-state review and definition of the case for change
- — Transformation vision, outcomes and practical roadmap
- — Governance, roles, workstreams, risks and dependencies
- — Stakeholder mapping, engagement and communication planning
- — Process, service and reporting improvement
- — Change-readiness and adoption support
- — Benefits, progress and performance measures
- — Coaching and practical support for leaders, managers and change champions
Bespoke training & learning programmes
We do not begin with an off-the-shelf course — we begin with the performance need. A programme can include:
- — Learning needs analysis and stakeholder consultation
- — Clear learning outcomes linked to organisational priorities
- — Tailored modules, learning journeys and practical assignments
- — Live workshops, masterclasses, action learning, coaching or team clinics
- — Templates, checklists, guides and job aids for use after the session
- — Pre- and post-session evaluation, action plans and follow-up support
Specialist workshops
- — Grant writing, fundraising and funder readiness
- — Bid and tender writing
- — Project and programme planning
- — Budgeting, costing and financial management
- — Start-up formation and funding readiness
- — Cash flow and financial planning for early-stage businesses
- — Strategic planning and governance
- — Monitoring, evaluation and impact measurement
- — Data quality, management reporting and board-ready communication
Delivery is available in person, live online or as a blended programme. Sessions can be stand-alone or combined with coaching, implementation support and follow-up clinics.
Design a programme for your team