Applicant Help Guides

Answer a request for more information, ask to edit, read your decision letter, accept or decline an offer, complete its conditions and appeal a decline.

Keep the answers funders ask for in an applicant profile in your Backed account, share them with an Organisation, see what you shared and withdraw consent.

Find a grant, check you are eligible, fill in the application form and submit it.

Add or remove the people and organisations who work on your application with you, and what a collaborator can and can't do.

Review, sign or decline a contract, download it, and make a request such as an extension once it is in place.

Search a funder's open grant rounds by name, category or program, and open the one you want to apply for.

Short answers to the questions applicants ask most about accounts, applications, deadlines and decisions.

See your milestones, complete and submit their deliverables, resubmit when asked, and share a milestone.

See what your funding is paid in, where each payment of your grant is up to, and download the letters sent with your payments.

Report on your projects each quarter, read what is shared back with you, and keep your organisation's contacts up to date.

Ask referees for a reference from your application form, follow each request, and what a referee sees when they open their link.

Register yourself or your organisation with a funder before you apply, and what each registration status means.

Read the assessments of your applications an organisation has shared with you, read-only, with only the questions, scores and names it chose to share.

See the grants a funder has approved and published, round by round, without signing in.

What to do when you can't sign in, can't reach the organisation's portal, or are held on the registration page.

Find open grants, keep track of your applications and tasks, and move around the Applicant Portal.

Add and remove the people who act for your organisation, and let a colleague complete your quarterly returns for a while.

Manage your account, save a signature for contracts, choose which emails and text messages you receive, add your dates to a calendar, and accept updated terms.