Unlocking trusts and foundations funding to fuel your charity’s growth
Trusts and foundations are one of the most significant income streams for charities of every size. But competition is tough, and identifying the right funders, framing your projects, and crafting bids that inspire decision-makers can feel overwhelming. At Orchard Fundraising, we work alongside you, helping you build a realistic pipeline, submit compelling applications, and nurture relationships that last well beyond a single grant.
What is Trusts & Foundations Fundraising?
Trusts and foundations are charitable bodies, grant-making organisations, and philanthropic institutions that distribute funds to causes aligned with their objectives. Grants can range from modest awards to substantial six-figure sums, supporting areas such as project delivery, capital developments, or long-term organisational growth.
For many charities, this funding can be transformational – enabling new projects, strengthening existing services, growing credibility with supporters and providing the stability to plan for the future. However, with thousands of applicants competing for limited funds, identifying the right opportunities and crafting bids that resonate is vital.
Our Approach
Successful trust fundraising takes more than a strong project idea. It needs the right research, a tailored proposal, and a story that clearly connects your mission with a funder’s priorities. That’s where Orchard Fundraising comes in, combining deep research, sector insight and hands-on experience to help you understand where the strongest opportunities lie and how to make the most of limited tiem and resources.
We work alongside you to build a clear case for support and highlight your impact, drawing on our years of experience and insight, practical know-how and pre-existing relationships with a range of funders. From reviewing major grant opportunities and balancing the effort and reward, to shaping your narrative so it connects with funder priorities, we help you present your work in a way that feels both authentic and strategic.
How We Help
How We Strengthen Your Trusts & Foundations Fundraising
We support you through every stage of trusts and foundations fundraising, helping you build a strong and well-researched pipeline, shape a clear and compelling narrative, and identify the funders most closely aligned with your mission and priorities. We deepen your insight into what funders are looking for, strengthen the evidence behind your case for support, and help you bring your work to life through authentic storytelling grounded in real voices, data and lived experience.
Our team develops high-quality bids and supporting materials, refining your proposals so they speak directly to funder expectations and stand out from the competition. And because winning grants relies as much on relationships as on written applications, we help you prepare for conversations, meetings and site visits, while putting practical tools, templates and workflows in place to make future applications smoother, stronger and more sustainable over time.
Why Work With Us?
We don’t just write bids. We help charities tell their stories in ways that resonate with funders – connecting the heart of your mission with the priorities of those who can invest in it. We bring clarity, insight, and practical expertise to strengthen your cases for support and improve your chances of securing the grants you need.
Extensive experience securing trusts and foundations funding
Relationship-led approach that builds funder trust
Compelling cases for support that resonate with funders
Flexible partnership across the whole bid process
A strong record of winning grants that drive real impact
What Our Clients Say
We’re proud to support organisations building strong, lasting relationships with funders who share their mission and values.
” Orchard Fundraising’s support has been hugely beneficial in terms of increasing our capacity for fundraising; they have helped us identify priorities, developed a pipeline of potential funders and drafted persuasive proposals. Their friendly and professional approach and advice has been welcome and much appreciated.”
