Tender & Grant Alert Subscription · £15-49/mo Niche Funding Newsletters

Niche funding-alerts newsletter → £15-49/mo/subscriber + £299 application-support upsells.

The complete stack for launching a paid funding-alert newsletter. 10 prompts covering audience selection, hidden .gov.uk data sources, AI-scored opportunity ranking, application-support upsells and retention. Aim: 200 subscribers × £29/mo = £5.8K MRR in 6 months on a niche most funders ignore.

Act as a UK grants strategist who has advised 40+ SMEs, sports clubs and creatives to secure £2M+ in funding. My personal edge / network: [EDGE]. Weekly time: [HRS]. Starting capital: £0-£100.

Market signal: The UK ships £80B+ in grants + tenders/year, but funders publish scattered across 400+ portals. Niche communities pay £15-49/mo for a curated, plain-English digest — because a single successful application is worth 10-100× the sub.

Deliver: (1) 8 fundable-audience niches ranked by (application volume × avg award × my domain edge) — e.g. Scottish creatives, UK sports clubs, women-led SMEs, agri-tech, rural pubs, community energy, care providers, primary schools, (2) top 3 with a real reader persona (role + org + painful moment + current alert habit), (3) willingness-to-pay evidence for each (existing competitor pricing, LinkedIn poll idea, 5-call user interview script), (4) the ONE 'wedge niche' I'd launch with in 30 days, (5) a positioning line (10 words max) that separates my digest from GOV.UK's Contract Finder RSS feed, (6) a 12-month subscriber ladder (10 → 50 → 200 free → paid conversion), (7) 3 organisations I could partner with for launch (trade body, LinkedIn Top Voice, community-hub email list). End with the ONE 'fundable audience' that looks lucrative but has awful open rates because the founders check email once a fortnight.

Act as an open-data journalist who has scraped 300+ UK funding portals for weekly digest coverage. My niche: [NICHE].

Deliver: (1) the definitive source map for MY niche — 15-25 sources across 4 tiers: Tier 1 official portals (Contracts Finder, Find a Tender, GOV.UK Grants Finder, Innovate UK, TED-eu until it fades, devolved-nation feeds), Tier 2 sector bodies (trade associations, sector funds, arm's-length bodies), Tier 3 foundations & trusts (Big Lottery, Sport England, Arts Council, Esmée Fairbairn), Tier 4 corporate & local (bank foundations, council small-grants), (2) which sources publish RSS/JSON vs which need scraping, (3) a 5-tool scraping stack (Feedly Pro, Apify actor, Google Alerts, a scheduled Make.com scrape, a Substack-friendly ChatGPT summariser), (4) the polling frequency per source (real-time / daily / weekly) matched to close-date urgency, (5) a 'source health' dashboard I refresh monthly (broken feeds, dead links, moved endpoints), (6) 3 hidden .gov.uk paths most subscribers don't know about (data.gov.uk API, devolved subdomain feeds, subject-access publication schemes), (7) my compliance stance on re-publishing government content (Crown copyright + Open Government Licence + attribution). End with the ONE funding source that is publicly listed but almost never appears in competitor digests.