Whitney Consulting - Grant, Tender & Business Case Writers

Whitney Consulting - Grant, Tender & Business Case Writers Experts in grant funding processes from project development through to grant writing and reporting.
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Whitney Consulting helps regional local governments, not for profits and community organisations to navigate the grant funding and government processes. Grant, Tender Bids and Business Case Services - Perth, Regional WA, Sydney, South Australia

There are a few common assumptions about hiring a grant writer that stop capable organisations from ever making the call...
16/06/2026

There are a few common assumptions about hiring a grant writer that stop capable organisations from ever making the call, most of which don’t hold up to scrutiny.

Here are five worth rethinking before you write off the idea of outsourcing to a professional.

A not-for-profit leader we worked with earlier this year told us something that's stayed with me.She'd been running her ...
12/06/2026

A not-for-profit leader we worked with earlier this year told us something that's stayed with me.

She'd been running her organisation for eleven years and had never applied for a grant.

Not once.

She'd assumed, from early on, that the funding available through government programs was for different kinds of organisations: Larger ones, ones with dedicated fundraising teams, or maybe ones with stronger community profiles.

When we mapped her organisation's work against the funding landscape at the time, she found four programs worth exploring. Two of them fit the exact kind of grassroots community work she'd been doing for over a decade.

This lack of knowledge between what's available and what most organisations believe is available to them, is one of the most persistent challenges in the Australian funding sector. Organisations doing excellent work assume they don't qualify and never find out they were wrong.

Programs will come and go without many eligible organisations ever realising they were in the picture.

If you'd like to stay across what's open and coming up each month, our free Grant Wise newsletter is designed exactly for this. DM us your email address to access your newest opportunity list each month.

The Australian Government is providing funding to establish 7 regional Drought Resilience Hubs across Australia.Rather t...
10/06/2026

The Australian Government is providing funding to establish 7 regional Drought Resilience Hubs across Australia.

Rather than providing direct financial relief to individual primary producers, this program funds the establishment and operation of regional network “Hubs”. These Hubs act as strategic connectors by bridging the gap between agricultural research and on-the-ground practice.

The funding is designed to support organisations that can deliver practical tools, trial innovative farming techniques, and build long-term climate resilience within regional communities.

Who Can Apply?

To manage a project of this scale, applicants must have a sufficient operational capacity and legal structure.

Eligible applicants must be a registered legal entity, including:
• Incorporated Associations and Co-operatives
• Companies
• Indigenous Corporations
• Corporate State or Territory Entities (such as regional universities or state government research bodies)

Joint Applications - Given the broad regional footprint required for these Hubs, the program highly encourages a consortium approach. If you represent a smaller organisation, an agricultural startup, or a local grower group, you can partner with a larger institution (such as a university or established industry body) that will act as the Lead Applicant and assume administrative responsibility.

We have had great success in this program, securing an initial $8 million of funding to open the Southern NSW Drought Resilience Adoption and Innovation Hub. The Hub has gone on to do great work in the environmental field, and also win millions of dollars in additional funding from various grant programs.

Contact us if you’re interested in putting forward a project. We’re happy to chat through your options and chances of success.

Grant round closing date: 10 August 2026

Grant guidelines are full of phrases that sound clear until you try to answer them.Here's one we decode a lot.
09/06/2026

Grant guidelines are full of phrases that sound clear until you try to answer them.

Here's one we decode a lot.

We see a version of the same application from government teams more often than we'd like to admit.It is usually well-wri...
04/06/2026

We see a version of the same application from government teams more often than we'd like to admit.

It is usually well-written.

The project is clearly explained.

The team knows the work thoroughly, and it shows.

However, usually the application reads like an internal briefing note rather than a funding submission, and when it’s assessed against weighted criteria by someone with no prior knowledge of the project, we can see it will fail.

The problem is often the perspective.

When you are writing about a project from the inside, people in the business can usually explain it well. However, that’s not enough.

When an assessor reads a submission, the question they are answering is, “Does this application demonstrate that this project aligns with what we are trying to fund?”

Those are not the same task and not seeing that is where a lot of inexperienced funding application writers get stuck.

We work with teams who are doing genuinely important work, by helping them communicate that work in the language of the funding body.

Is your team working on an external funding application and finding the guidelines harder to interpret than they appear, or maybe you keep losing out on funding and you can’t work out why? Either way, get in contact and we'll talk you through it.

Most not-for-profit organisations are eligible for more funding than they realise.The recent budget hints at a huge vari...
29/05/2026

Most not-for-profit organisations are eligible for more funding than they realise.

The recent budget hints at a huge variety of programs across federal, state, and local government that are on the horizon. And beyond government funding allocations, there will be many more opportunities through foundations, community organisations, and corporate giving programs. Each opportunity will target different sectors, activities, geographies, and organisational sizes.

The visibility of funding programs is a problem, with no single directory listing everything. Programs open and close with little to no fanfare, often with limited promotion outside the relevant sector or portal. The FRRR Strengthening Rural Communities Small & Vital grants, for example, close in September 2026. This a meaningful opportunity for smaller regional and rural NFPs, but one many eligible organisations will not find until after the deadline has passed.

The organisations that access funding consistently are usually the ones with some sort of system for watching what’s available and who are organised enough to act quickly when the right opportunity appears.

Grant Wise, our free monthly newsletter, is designed exactly to help people like you with this exact visibility problem. Each edition covers current national and state grant programs that are open or upcoming, so you are not starting from scratch each time you look.

If you would like to access it, DM us your email address to access your newest opportunity list each month or sign up via the button in our page header.

If you're on our Grant Wise mailing list, you'll have received something a little different in your inbox recently... a ...
27/05/2026

If you're on our Grant Wise mailing list, you'll have received something a little different in your inbox recently... a budget special edition covering the key funding signals from the 2026-27 Federal Budget.

We put it together because budget night is one of the most useful moments in the grant funding calendar.

Not every announcement becomes a grant straight away, but the commitments made in the budget tend to signal what's coming - new programs, new rounds, new eligibility categories - weeks or months before they officially open.

The budget special covered the areas most likely to generate funding activity for businesses, not-for-profits, and government organisations in the months ahead.

If you didn't receive it and you'd like a copy, send us a message and we'll get it across to you.

And if you'd like to receive the regular Grant Wise newsletter, which covers current national and state grant programs each month, the next edition goes out tomorrow.

You can subscribe at whitneyconsulting.com.au/subscribe-newsletter, or just send us a message and we'll add you to the list.

A not-for-profit manager came to us earlier this year for help with a grant application that had already been through tw...
26/05/2026

A not-for-profit manager came to us earlier this year for help with a grant application that had already been through two internal drafts.

She was competent, thorough, and deeply knowledgeable about her organisation's work and the drafts were well-written. However, when we read the guidelines carefully alongside what she had submitted, the same issue appeared in both versions: the application described the program compellingly but it didn’t address what the funder was actually measuring.

The guidelines used language like "demonstrated community impact" and "evidence of organisational sustainability." Her application had both, but they were woven through the narrative rather than mapped explicitly to those terms.

Doing this carries the danger that an assessor working through a significant volume of applications might not have been confident ticking those criteria off.

We restructured the application around the criteria weighting. The content was the same but the architecture was completely different creating a much stronger submission. These little details that someone wouldn’t notice unless they’ve read thousands of funding applications like we have.

Grant applications are not just about having good work to describe. They are about demonstrating your work in the specific structure and language the funder is using to assess it and that translation layer is where a lot of strong organisations lose ground.

If you are working on an application and finding the guidelines harder to interpret than they should be, get in contact and we will talk you through it.

Something we hear from a lot of not-for-profit leaders: "We know we should be applying for more grants, but we just neve...
22/05/2026

Something we hear from a lot of not-for-profit leaders: "We know we should be applying for more grants, but we just never have time."

There’s some real honesty in that statement.

Running a not-for-profit or organisation is demanding work, and grant writing sits alongside program delivery, stakeholder management, governance obligations, and the general weight of keeping everything organised and functioning.

The problem is that the grants don't wait.

Right now, for example, the NSW National Carers Week Grants 2026 close on 25 May - just three days away. It's a meaningful opportunity for eligible organisations working with carers, and if you’re in that boat and just learning about the grant now, then I’m sorry, but you probably don’t have time to create a quality application with enough quality to win the funding.

This is a capacity problem rather than an effort problem.

Consistent grant funding is, yes, about being able to write exceptional applications. But it’s also about having a monitoring system that surfaces opportunities in time to act on them, and maintaining core documents that can be adapted quickly rather than rebuilt from scratch each round.

If your organisation is in a space where you know funding exists but rarely feel ahead of it, then maybe you would benefit from our Grant Wise newsletter - a monthly update of all national and state grant programs - so you’ll always have the time to craft your winning application.

DM us your email address to access your newest opportunity list each month.

Every sheep producer who has been part of the live export trade knows the weight of what is coming... The end of live sh...
20/05/2026

Every sheep producer who has been part of the live export trade knows the weight of what is coming... The end of live sheep exports by sea in May 2028. That's less than two years away, making it even more vital to make positive business decisions now and funding is available to help you do that.

Round 2 of the Farm Business Transition Program is open now. $75,000 in matched funding is available for eligible sheep producers to develop business plans, upgrade infrastructure, adopt alternative farming systems, and invest in the future of their operations.

There is also a separate program for livestock transport operators — the Livestock Transport Industry Transition Program — offering up to $40,000 for businesses looking to diversify into other transport-related activities.

Both close in the middle of July 2026.

This is really not long to plan your winning project.

Whether you are already planning your next move or still weighing up your options, this funding exists to support the transition on your terms. It is worth understanding what is available before the window closes.

If you want us to keep you updated on funding opportunities like this, sign up for our newsletter using the "Sign Up" button.

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