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£240,000
Biggest grant won using Raiser so far
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What it costs your charity. Now and always.
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Raiser
Built by fundraisers, for fundraisers
Most small charities manage their grants in a spreadsheet. It works — until it doesn't.
You built the spreadsheet yourself, and you know exactly how it works. Until you go on holiday, or a colleague adds a row in the wrong place, or you open it six weeks later and can't remember what "pending – TBC" means in that column.
Grants are time-critical and detail-heavy. The wrong deadline missed, the wrong question unanswered, the wrong grant submitted to a funder you already approached last year — these aren't just admin errors. They cost money your charity needed.
And the spreadsheet doesn't know any of that. It just sits there, silently wrong.
There's also the question of what happens when someone leaves. In small charities, the person who manages fundraising often carries the pipeline in their head — who's been contacted, what was agreed, where things stand with each funder. When they go, that knowledge goes with them. Their successor starts from scratch. The spreadsheet, if there even is one, is already out of date.
Your pipeline shouldn't depend on any one person. And it shouldn't live in a file on someone's laptop.
One place for every grant your charity is working on.
Raiser's pipeline gives you a clean, visual overview of every funding opportunity your charity is pursuing — where it is, what's needed next, who's responsible, and when things are due.
It's built like a Kanban board: each grant is a card, each stage is a column. You move cards forward as work progresses. At a glance, you can see exactly what state your whole fundraising programme is in.
Grant pipeline — Kanban board across all seven stages (coming soon)
From first look to final report — the full grant lifecycle in one view.
Most pipeline tools stop when you win a grant. Raiser doesn't, because your work doesn't either.
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Researching
You've found a potential funder and you're looking into them. Is this worth pursuing? Do they fund organisations like yours?
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Eligible
You've checked the criteria. This one's worth going for.
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Drafting
The application is in progress. Assign it to a team member. Set the deadline. Write the bid using your Impact Story™.
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Submitted
It's in. Now you wait.
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Successful — In Progress
You've won. The grant is active and you're delivering the work it funds.
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Successful — Report Due
The work is done. Time to report back to the funder on the difference it made.
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Unsuccessful
It didn't come off this time. Log what you learned and decide whether to reapply.
Everything you need to stay on top of it.
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Never miss a deadline.
Set a deadline on every card. Raiser reminds you when things are due — no more scanning the spreadsheet for the one you forgot about.
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See your pipeline value.
At a glance: how much funding you're currently working on, how much is submitted and waiting for a decision, and when you're expecting to hear. Finally, a real number to work with.
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Pass work between team members.
Assign cards to colleagues, leave notes, hand off drafts for review. Your pipeline isn't a solo document anymore — it's a shared workspace.
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Your data belongs to your charity.
Raiser accounts belong to the organisation, not the individual. When a team member leaves, their work stays. New starters pick up exactly where things left off. No more starting from scratch every time someone moves on.
Grant card detail — deadline, assignee, notes, stage, and value (coming soon)
Every funder you add helps the whole sector.
When you add a grant opportunity to your pipeline, you can share that funder to Raiser's community funding directory — the Wikipedia-style database built by fundraisers, for fundraisers.
You don't have to. It's your choice. But if you do, you're making it easier for every other small charity searching for that funder to find them — and someone else's contribution might do the same for you.
The more charities use the pipeline, the better the directory gets. And the better the directory, the easier it is for everyone to find the right funders in the first place.
Charities already raising more with Raiser
£5,000
Raised from a local funder
“I didn't think I could get a bid in on time, but Raiser made it possible. Having all of our previous material in one place, plus the fundraising expertise baked in, meant we could quickly and simply put our request to the funder — and it worked!”
Mark Hornsey, Co-Artistic Director, Babbling Vagabonds
£240,000
Core grant over two years
“We're now seeing a massive increase in our capacity to win funding. We're celebrating a big win recently — a £240,000 core grant award over 2 years, written using the Raiser approach.”
Simon Wallwork, CEO, Buxton Crescent Heritage Trust
£10,000
National Lottery Heritage Fund
“We used Raiser to help bring together the school, the church, and the PTA for a project marking the school's 150th anniversary. We ended up securing £10,000 from the National Lottery Heritage Fund.”
PTA Member (name changed for privacy), Primary School PTA
Even the funders think the old way is broken.
“As a trust-based funder and champion of grassroots and small charities, I feel frustrated by the funder-fuelled norms of application processes and impact reporting. Raiser is a much needed leveller and has the potential to reform an inequitable system that gets in the way of facilitating brilliant, impactful work.”
Kate Symondson
The Symondson Foundation
The sector's best grant pipeline tool. Free. For good.
Other pipeline and grant tracking tools cost money — sometimes hundreds of pounds a year. Raiser is free for charities, because we don't think the burden of fundraising admin should cost you the money you're trying to raise.
Raiser is completely free for charities. No trial. No card. No small print.
Here's what you get, free, from day one:
- Unlimited grants in your pipeline
- All seven stages of the grant lifecycle
- Deadline tracking and reminders
- Team assignment and collaboration
- Pipeline value dashboard
- Access to the community funder database
- Your full Impact Story™ — built alongside your pipeline
- Built-in writing support for bids and reports
Questions we get a lot
How many grants can I add to the pipeline?
Unlimited. Add every funder you're exploring, every application in progress, every active grant — there's no cap.
Can more than one person in my charity use it?
Yes. You can add team members to your Raiser account. Each person can be assigned cards, leave notes, and pick up where someone else left off.
What happens when a staff member leaves?
Nothing is lost. Your Raiser account belongs to your charity, not to any individual user. When someone leaves, remove their access and your pipeline, your funder records, and your Impact Story™ stay exactly as they were.
Does it integrate with anything we already use?
Raiser works as a standalone pipeline — you don't need to connect it to anything else to get value from it. Integrations with other sector tools are in development.
Is this actually free? What's the catch?
No catch. Raiser is free for charities because we believe the burden of fundraising admin should shift off your shoulders. We're paid by the funders using our platform to find and fund high impact causes like yours!
We're tiny — just me and a couple of volunteers. Is this for us?
Especially for you. The data ownership features are actually most valuable for small teams with high turnover — the pipeline belongs to the organisation, not the person.
Still have questions? Email us at hello@raiser.uk — we actually reply.
Your next grant deadline is already in the diary. Is it in your pipeline?
Create your free account, add your first grant opportunity, and find out what it feels like to actually know where you are.