Fees? How do you do them?

Grant application writing might best be handled at the Council level, with assistance from National.

I sort of disagree. While council should be providing information about local and provincial grant programs, the overall writing process of how to sell your plan and telling the grant agencies what they want to hear is generic, and thus a national led course would work.

there are also corporate grants you could look for. those would be the same nationaly. I worked with a cub leader who had the idea that he could get his employer (a large oil company during the last oil boom) to sponsor our pack and leaders to go to the kenedy space centerfor a weekend. now I think he was dreaming, but knowing what sort of things you could put into an application would be a great help.

On the topic of grant writting:

If your Area has a major festival of any kind I guarantee there is someone local who has written numerous grant applications! Have you heard of any community group locally that has actually received a Trilium grant? Once again someone somewhere has written a Grant Application. When all else fails if you find a granting authority that you think might have money available for your endeavors, search out people in the community who have received grants recently and just ask for help, bet most would be more than willing or can connect you up with someone who can.

With all that being said there are people out there that are in fact Professional Grant writers, yes they charge a fee for writting a grant application but believe me a well written grant application has more to do with actually receiving the requested funds than even a great cause sometimes! Remember you are not the only one with a great cause and your application needs to stand out! As well most Profeesionals can likely tell you of at least a few more granting authorities who may be out there that you have never even heard or thought of, a good grant writer can be worth their weight in Gold, literally.

We (1st Wainwright Scout Group) charge each youth $200 for registration.

$180 goes to Northern Lights Council
$ 20 goes to the respective section for dues
$ 00 is charged to leaders.

I have a two parents who have employers that offer donations once a year, all the Parent has to do is apply. One parent works for a major bank and can apply for $500 each year and another parent works for an insurance company, again a $500 yearly grant and the employer will match donations the parent makes and will give a donation for volunteer hours. So this one parent was able to have their employer donate $1500 last year with the parent making a $500 herself plus her hours helping. That was $2500 we had not counted on, we were able to roll those funds into our jamboree account.