AI for Bid Writing: Practical Tools for Community and Voluntary Organisations (1677)
Date: 25/08/2026
Time: 10:00 - 11:30
Community First Members: £35.00
Voluntary Sector/Social Enterprise: £45.00
statutory/Business: £55.00
Eastleigh Voluntary Sector/Social Enterprise: £20.00
AI for Bid Writing: Practical Tools for Community and Voluntary Organisations
To help community and voluntary organisations use AI confidently and responsibly to improve grant applications, reduce drafting time, strengthen evidence, tailor responses to funder criteria and preserve their own organisational voice.
The course assumes participants may be using tools such as ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini or Claude, but need a safe, practical guidance session rather than technical AI theory. The core principle is that AI can help with analysis, structure, drafting and editing, but humans remain responsible for judgement, evidence, accuracy, compliance and final sign-off.
By the end of the live online session, participants will be able to:
+ Understand where AI can help in the grant-writing process and where it should not be relied on.
+ Build a simple source pack before using AI, including funder questions, guidance notes, project details, impact evidence, budget information and examples of organisational voice.
+ Write stronger prompts that ask AI to draft from supplied evidence only.
+ Use AI to develop needs statements, project summaries, outcomes, evidence plans and budget justifications.
+ Use AI as a reviewer to check whether a draft answers the question, fits the funder’s priorities and avoids generic claims.
+ Identify risks around data protection, confidentiality, safeguarding, accuracy and overclaiming.
+ Apply a final human review checklist before submission.