Heads down in a large (for us...) multi-year grant funding application that would start in 2027 and complete in 2030.... and the usual annoyances with the crazily short word limits and incomprehensible grant-speak mixed with corporate-mumbo-jumbo abound! I mean, most of the of the questions are so vague and useless that could probably be answered with "YES".... but instead you have to waffle on and remain under 200 words... so, not enough to properly describe things properly. And all the usual "right" words with different meanings...

Anyway, we are just going to do our own thing (again...) and just write in the language we understand, and address the questions in the ways that we understand them. We have had a roughly 50 percent grant success rate, and that is stupidly high... even more so, when you consider that we have no idea how to respond to most of the questions "properly"!

Normally, we have applied for grants on a per-project basis... and I'm pretty hardcore about doing a good and detailed budget.... apparently, more detailed than most arts organisations do... and quite frankly, I'm a bit horrified by some of the examples that I've seen!

But those budgets are generally for projects that are in the very near future (within a year), with strictly definite and defined expenses and parameters. But this particular budgeting is for two years away as a detailed budget... for the whole ensemble organisation year across multiple projects... and then drops to a rough forecast budgeting 3-5 years out!

Seriously, how does anyone do a detailed budget 2 years out without winging a good deal of the numbers... and then 3-5 years out? Well, if you are not admitting you are essentially pulling numbers out of your arse, you are lying.... or a professional grant writer or a CEO.

Anyway, we are doing the best we can with such a far-off forecasting.... but honestly, it is really feeling like it is pulling number right deep up our arses... sorry, strategic risk management and predicting of trends... or something like that.

... I can't believe people do this as a job!

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