Holds the case for change honest.
Every bid needs evidence, not assertion. Projan asks for the data, the comparators, and the source - before the assessor does.
Public Sector & Non-profit
Funders read 200 bids.
Yours has 90 seconds to land
Projan is the teammate who knows what funders look for, what assessors flag, and what makes a bid stand out.
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A WORKED EXAMPLE
A bid, defended on the page
A National Lottery youth mentoring bid with a Theory of Change that leaps from "we mentor young people" to "outcomes improve." Projan pushes for explicit intermediate outcomes, monitoring measures that work at 12 months not 3 years, and a specific counterfactual: who doesn’t get reached without this funding.
The same rigour applied to a Green Book Five Case Model: four options modelled, sensitivity tested, change management built into the management case. Bids fail on the logic chain. Projan’s job is to test the logic chain before the assessor does.
WHAT PROJAN BRINGS
Public Sector & Non-profit
Builds the Theory of Change properly.
Activities → outputs → outcomes → impact. Projan won’t let "we’ll provide training and lives will improve" pass as a logic chain.
Sharpens the value-for-money case.
Funders compare bids. Projan asks how yours stacks up against do-nothing, do-minimum, and do-something-else.
WHAT YOU CAN PLAN
Document types this specialist covers
Every artefact a public sector or non-profit team actually has to ship.
Grant bids Business cases (Green Book five-case) Theory of Change Service redesigns Impact reports Logic models Monitoring & evaluation plans Stakeholder consultation summaries
THE CONTEXT GUIDE
What you bring. What Projan brings.
The bid is stronger when the evidence base and the funder’s expectations are both on the table.
What to bring to the conversation
- • The funder’s brief or call specification
- • The evidence base for the need: data, research, consultation outputs, lived experience
- • Your organisation’s track record and relevant case studies
- • Budget breakdown and cost assumptions
- • The Theory of Change or logic model (any state)
- • Stakeholders involved: beneficiaries, partners, governance, evaluators
- • Compliance requirements: safeguarding, DBS, data protection, accessibility, equalities
What Projan brings
- • Questions that surface unsupported claims and weak evidence chains
- • Awareness of common bid failure modes (vague outcomes, weak baselines, unclear measurement)
- • Frameworks for structuring bids (need-response-impact, Five Case Model for business cases, Theory of Change progression)
- • Knowledge of UK funder expectations (National Lottery, Esmée Fairbairn, Garfield Weston, NIHR, government departments)
- • Direct export to the funder’s template, Word, or your bid management system
WITHOUT PROJAN
What public sector and non-profit teams get wrong without Projan
The bid told a strong story but couldn’t survive a Theory of Change challenge. The assessor’s comment: "activities described well, but the link to outcomes is asserted not demonstrated." Bids fail on the logic chain, not the writing. Projan’s job is to test the logic chain before the assessor does.
Bids that win. Cases that get approved. Written by your team.
Projan helps your team write the bid, the business case, the Theory of Change. Your team owns the work. The result is a submission that survives assessor scrutiny - because the scrutiny happened before it left your inbox.
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