Case study:Achates Develops Strategy: Tramshed

Achates has worked with Tramshed to support the development of its bids for a 10- year period, providing strategic, targeted support to optimise the organisation’s fundraising success. We work closely with Tramshed’s interim Executive Director and Participation Manager, and with the organisation’s former Artistic Director & CEO. Our work has supported the organisation through a series of step-change moments, including fundraising toward Tramshed’s once in a lifetime capital redevelopment project, the development of critical covid-recovery funds, and more recently a change in leadership.

Our approach includes full bid development, critical guidance and feedback, and mentoring and coaching to support the in-house team’s skills development. Recent bid writing successes include leveraging core funding from the Garfield Weston Foundation, retrospective funding from the National Lottery Community Fund in support of cost-of-living service provision and Henry Smith Charity funding toward targeted work with and for adults with learning differences.