The truth should not take three days to assemble

Know what could derail your next grant report.

Get your grant control score, your three priority fixes and a practical 30-day plan. Leave with an editable control register and a briefing you can share with your team. Free.

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Free · 12 questions · Immediate score · Phone optional · No booking required

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11 control questionsPlus one question about portfolio size

Immediate risk bandControlled, Exposed or Critical

Your three priority fixesNot a generic downloadable checklist

Your 30-day action packRegister, trustee briefing and checklist

The operating problem

The numbers may be right. The control can still be wrong.

Most grant failures do not begin with bad intent. They begin when finance, delivery and fundraising each hold a different piece of the answer, and a senior leader becomes the integration layer.

The agreement says one thing

Obligations, eligible costs and reporting conditions are buried in award documents and individual inboxes.

The accounts show another

Spend is recorded, but not in a form that lets delivery teams or trustees see the operational truth by grant.

The report is rebuilt by hand

Evidence, outputs and explanations are assembled under deadline pressure by the few people who know where everything lives.

Your reviewer

Antony Draper

Antony Draper Advisory

Know who you are working with

Practical control, with a named person accountable.

I work with leadership teams to bring structure to delivery, clarify ownership and make management information useful. My background includes operational and transformation work with HP, Capita and public-sector organisations.

For this service, I focus on how your team manages grant obligations, budgets, evidence and reporting. We start with your actual grant and the operating problem you need to resolve.

This background is operational delivery experience. The review is not an audit, independent examination or grant compliance certification. If the issue needs an accountant, auditor or legal adviser, we will identify that boundary.

You deal directly with me. antony@antonydraper.com

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The free risk check

One question matters: could you prove control today?

We examine how your team controls obligations, finances, evidence and reporting around each grant.

01Can you see budget versus actual for every active grant without rebuilding it?
02Does every reporting obligation have a date, owner and escalation route?
03Would finance and delivery give the same answer about the grant’s position?
04Is evidence captured as work happens, rather than collected before a report?
05Can trustees see exceptions before they become funder conversations?

Illustrative assessment

EXPOSED

Obligations

Financial view

Evidence

Ownership

Oversight

Clarity before commitment

Leave with a plan your team can actually use.

See your headline score immediately. Then use your name and email to unlock your complete personalised pack here, with an email copy. Your answers determine your priority actions and 30-day plan.

Personalised scorecard and three fixes with suggested owners
A plan adapted to your reporting deadline, with clear completion checks
Branded Excel workbook, editable register and trustee briefing
Next-report readiness checklist
No account, payment, compulsory booking or document upload

Before you commit

Know exactly what happens next.

Start with the free pack. You choose whether to have a conversation or ask for hands-on help.

Your free pack

See your headline result before giving contact details. Submit your name and email to unlock the full pack immediately, with an email copy. Phone and reporting date are optional. No account, payment or booking is required.

Your optional call

A free 30-minute conversation with Antony. Leave with one agreed priority, a suggested owner and the next action. No documents are needed for the first conversation, and there is no obligation to buy.

Your agreed diagnostic

Before payment, agree one active grant, the information and attendees needed, and a written-output delivery date. The £495 working session produces the agreed register, gap map, plan and briefing, followed by an owner walkthrough and progress follow-up.

Inspect an example pack →Open the branded workbook (.xlsx)Ask Antony about your grant

When the score reveals a real problem

Complete the control work for one real grant.

Use the free pack yourself, or start with a free 30-minute call to check fit. Leave with one agreed priority, its suggested owner and the next action, whether or not you buy. If you want hands-on help, the fixed-fee diagnostic turns one active grant into a clear working register and action plan. We agree the grant, required information and delivery dates before you pay. You leave with one usable register populated from the information supplied, with gaps clearly marked, and your nominated owner shown how to maintain it.

Clear answers

What the review can tell you.

How is my score calculated?

There are 12 questions. The first describes portfolio size and is context only. The other 11 each score 0–3 for the control practice you report. Their total, out of 33, is converted to a rounded percentage. Critical is below 45%, Exposed is 45–74%, and Controlled is 75–100%. Your three lowest control answers determine the priority areas; ties follow question order.

These are indicative operating bands based on your answers. They are not independently verified findings, a prediction of funding outcomes or a compliance certificate. A high score does not remove the need to check your actual obligations. Scoring version: grant-control-score-v3.

What does the £495 include, and when will I receive it?

One active grant, a 90-minute working session, a populated register, an obligations, evidence-gap and responsibility map, a 30-day action plan, a management briefing, an owner walkthrough and a 20-minute follow-up within 30 days. Scope, required inputs and the written-output delivery date are agreed before payment. Any applicable tax is calculated at checkout and shown before you pay.

The full £495 fee is credited towards a Grant Control Setup commissioned within 30 days of the diagnostic. If we fail to deliver the agreed written outputs, the delivery promise lets you choose completion at no extra charge or a refund, subject to the terms.

What information do I need to share?

No grant agreements or beneficiary records are needed for the free assessment or first call. For a paid diagnostic, we agree the minimum relevant grant, budget and reporting information and how it will be shared before you send it. Do not send passwords, bank credentials or unnecessary personal records through the enquiry form or ordinary email.

Will requesting the pack sign me up for marketing?

No. We use your details to provide the requested pack and handle relevant service enquiries. Phone is optional. Downloaded pack edits stay on your device and are not sent back to us. See the Privacy Policy.

Are the examples actual client results?

No. The sample pack and snapshot illustrations are labelled fictional or illustrative. They show the format and working method. They are not testimonials or evidence of an outcome achieved for a client.

A clear professional boundary

Grant Control Review provides operational control and management information. It is not statutory accounting, audit, independent examination, tax or legal advice, and it does not certify compliance. Where a matter requires a regulated or specialist opinion, we will say so and recommend that it is referred appropriately.

Three minutes. A clearer truth.

Find out whether your next grant report is controlled or reconstructed.

Answer 12 questions. See your score immediately and unlock a plan, register, briefing and checklist you can use without hiring us.

40 practical grant control guides

Operating guidance for organising obligations, ownership, reporting and evidence. The actual funding agreement remains the source of requirements.

Know the agreement

Own the delivery

See the position

Keep usable evidence

Handle changes and close out