Geoff Pearson

Director

Submission Writing Tip

"Plan and cost your idea fully before you start writing your submission.  Most applications that fail do so because they have not been thoroughly planned first."

Over the last 22 years, Geoff Pearson has been an independent reviewer of funding applications.  He has conducted over 40 such reviews for a range of government funding bodies. 

Geoff's services in this field are highly regarded and sought after by several funding bodies which have repeatedly invited him to conduct their annual reviews. 

His processes include:

• determining the eligibility of applications
• reading and scoring each eligible application against the selection criteria
• designing a purpose-built database to record scores and comments, generate reports, and for dataprojecting at Selection Panel meetings so that all members of the panel can monitor proceedings
• writing the final selection report

For reasons of confidentiality, Geoff is not allowed to identify the funding bodies he has worked for.

Geoff also runs a very popular, interactive workshop on submission writing skills which helps participants produce more competitive submissions.

Evaluation of

Funding

Applications