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Amplify Your Charity's Impact With AI Assistants

Streamline grant writing, simplify impact reporting, and focus on driving change with a custom AI Agent for your charity

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Empowering Charities with Intelligent Support

Your dedicated AI agent is designed to supercharge your charity’s fundraising, strategy, and organisational impact. From crafting funding bids to developing strategic plans, your AI agent will lighten your workload and help your organisation thrive.

Your Own AI Agent

Trained on your Charity's documents, your AI agent will be ready to answer questions from any member of your team, and even help leadership with strategy and growth planning

Win More Grants

Give your AI Agent the funding criteria and application process for any funding source you are looking to secure, from Government, Lottery, Trusts & Foundations (anything with a structured process)

Report Your Impact

By uploading success metrics and outcomes of your existing funding programmes and activities, you can create social return on investment reports to promote stewardship with your funders

"Charities are finding the [AI] writing tools helpful for fundraising materials, bid writing"
Charity Commission

What Can Your AI Assistant Help With?

Your AI assistant can support your team in minutes — saving time, unlocking insights, and getting things done across every part of your organisation. Here are 20 real examples of how charities and social impact organisations are already using it:🚀 Strategy & Funding
✅ Draft grant proposals tailored to funder criteria
✅ Identify new funding opportunities and CSR partners
✅ Summarise impact reports for board or leadership use
✅ Generate research to support bids, planning, or growth✍️ Content & Communications
✅ Write blog posts, newsletters, or public updates
✅ Create dynamic, funny or formal job adverts
✅ Draft donor messages, internal emails, or tender responses
✅ Turn complex data into plain-English summaries📊 Presentations & Visuals
✅ Build PowerPoint decks for funding, team, or board updates
✅ Create visual summaries of your strategy, impact, or plans
✅ Generate on-brand imagery to represent your work🧠 Governance, Policy & Compliance
✅ Draft AI usage, safeguarding, or data policies
✅ Redraft governance documents to align with current standards
✅ Answer staff questions about policies or best practice💼 Tenders, Contracts & Service Design
✅ Respond to ITTs and funding briefs with confidence
✅ Write clear, values-led service descriptions
✅ Describe collaboration models and inclusive employment practices🎓 Staff & Volunteer Support
✅ Provide refreshers on internal policies and procedures
✅ Create onboarding and training content
✅ Reduce admin stress with fast, accurate support

About Richard Patey

I’m an experienced bid writer and funding strategist who was leveraging AI technologies before ChatGPT even launched. My expertise lies in helping charities and community groups secure funding, develop sustainable strategies, and harness AI-powered efficiencies to maximise their impact.At Voluntary Norfolk, I supported hundreds of charities and voluntary organisations to start up, grow, and secure funding. I provided expert guidance on legal structures and funding streams, organised funding and development events, and delivered workshops on income generation. My work connected local organisations with national funders and agencies, giving them direct access to essential resources. I also sat on an ESF grant funding panel, offering valuable insight into how funders assess applications.At Meridian East, a supported employment charity, I played a key role in securing and managing government and community-funded welfare-to-work programmes. My work involved researching funding opportunities, analysing government policies, bid writing, contract negotiations, and service delivery planning. I successfully secured over £500,000 in funding, ensuring the charity could expand its services while staying aligned with its strategic goals.Now, through whynot.bot, I’m bringing my expertise in AI-driven solutions, bid writing, and strategic funding to charities and community groups—helping them work smarter, secure funding faster, and scale their impact more effectively.

Richard has played a key role in shaping Young Somerset’s strategic content through Why Not Bot, enhancing our digital engagement and outreach. His expertise in AI-driven communication has strengthened our ability to efficiently use AI safely in our business processes.

Nik Harwood, Chief Executive at Young Somerset

My Package

CUSTOM AI ASSISTANT

Support setting up your own ChatGPT Team account (so your data is not shared)
Your own custom AI assistant trained on your charity's documents
Virtual training of staff (1 hour)
Training Manual
AI policy for staff
Delivery inside 30 days

£3,000

This is a one-off price for my service. The only ongoing cost is for a ChatGPT Team subscription at ~£400 per year which you can cancel at any time.

Let's Talk AI & Bid-Writing

Submit the form below with details about your charity and your funding needs and we'll schedule a video call where I will talk you through the process and share a live example.