How Bid Bot is helping Flixton Cricket and Sports Club with grant funding

At Bid Bot, we recognise the important role that Flixton Cricket and Sports Club plays in its community. As a hub for local sports and social activities, the club promotes community engagement and physical well-being. However, like many local sports organisations, Flixton faces challenges in securing the necessary funding to maintain and improve its facilities. To address these challenges, we’ve partnered with Flixton Cricket and Sports Club to help them navigate the complex process of applying for grant funding. Using Bid Bot’s full turnkey solution for automating and quality checking and suggesting content for improvements free of charge, will massively help volunteers with speed and quality of submissions.

Our partnership with Flixton Cricket and Sports Club is designed to provide the club with the tools and expertise needed to put forward competitive funding applications. This collaboration is built on our deep experience in public sector bidding, which we’ve successfully adapted to meet the specific needs of sports clubs.

Our partnership with Flixton Cricket and Sports Club involves several key steps, each aimed at enhancing the club’s ability to secure funding:

1. Transferring public sector expertise to sports club bids: Our extensive experience in public sector bidding provides a solid foundation for helping Flixton prepare strong funding applications.
2. Providing a turnkey solution for bid creation and analysis: One of the core components of our partnership is the turnkey solution we offer, which automates key aspects of the bid creation process. This includes:

1. • Automating content generation: We will provide tools to help generate high-quality content specific to the grant and project requirements for including but not limited to project plans, scope of works, compliance and standards, risk assessments, technical specifications, environmental impacts, community engagement, innovation and added value.

1. • Automating quality checking and scoring: Each draft response will be thoroughly checked and scored against the question, customer requirements and marking scheme.
   • Automating content improvement suggestions: Based on the analysis, the system will create suggestions for improving the bids.

1. Utilising expert persona support: To ensure that the bids are tailored to the type of project requirements and the priorities of the funding bodies, we utilise our platform’s persona feature. This allows us to create and review content from the perspective of e.g. key project team members, the grant funding marking committee, and stakeholders, such as community members and local authorities. By aligning the bids with these perspectives, we ensured that the applications resonated with the decision-makers.

By leveraging our expertise and technology, the club is now better equipped to submit competitive bids that stand out to funding bodies. This support should help to enable Flixton Cricket and Sports Club to invest in facility upgrades and improve the overall experience for its members.