Writing good project proposals is as much about practice as anything else. When you first start, seek advice from partners and colleagues. Increasingly proposals need to be able to demonstrate the involvement and engagement of potential beneficiaries and volunteers.
Work with people from the beginning to develop your ideas and you already have a head start when you come to implement it.
In preparing a proposal there are key questions that you need to answer if you are to be successful.

• Why are you going to do this?
  
  
• How do you know it is needed?
  
  
• What will be different as a consequence?
  
  
• What practically will you need to do to make it work?
  
  
• What practically will you need to do to disseminate outcomes?
  
  
• What have you assumed in answering the questions above?
  
  
• How will you know if it has worked?