Helping you craft your story and achieve your goals

Transforming Communication into Change: Grant Writing, Copywriting, and Engagement Services

A note from Penny

Hi, I’m Penny, and I’ve spent my career helping people and organisations turn great ideas into reality. Here’s what I bring to the table:

Broad Expertise:
- Skilled in behaviour change methods, community-based social marketing, and stakeholder engagement.
- Experienced in creating strategies tailored to diverse audiences and goals.
Sector Experience:
- Worked across government, non-profits, natural resource management, and small businesses.
- Comfortable tackling projects in sustainability and community development.
Project Management & Administration:
- Coordinated programs, managed timelines, and ensured projects run smoothly.
- Skilled in organising workshops, preparing reports, and handling details to support team success.
Grant Writing & Funding:
- Secured funding through small community grants to large-scale proposals.
- Served on grant assessment panels and managed funded programs.
Engagement & Communication:
- Known for making complex ideas clear, relatable, and actionable.
- Developed communication strategies that connect people and drive results.

My Services

Grant Writing and Management

I provide comprehensive grant support, from preparing organisations to be grant-ready and writing successful applications, to teaching workshops on grant writing and assessing applications for funding bodies

Project Coordination

I will help you manage the moving parts of a project—coordinating teams, tracking progress, and ensuring everything stays on schedule. I also handle the details, from organising meetings and preparing reports to streamlining processes and keeping everyone aligned

Engagement and Facilitation

I design and run practical workshops that bring people together, build skills, and get results. With a focus on community engagement, I make sure everyone has a voice and leaves feeling confident and ready to take the next step

Communication and Behaviour Change

My favourite challenge is to take complex information and turn it into clear, friendly, and engaging content that your audience will understand. My training in sustainable behavior change means that I know how to create messages that encourage practical action.

Some of my work

The Toowoomba Local Food Challenge

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Darling Downs Environment Council Sustainability Retrofit

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FABDOCK Advance Qld Innovation Grants

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Workshop: Harnessing AI for Grant Wrtiting

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Testimonials

We engaged Penny to review an R & D Application. Penny quickly developed an understanding of the technical background and transformed our application into a succinct, well-articulated report.

Penny’s work helped foundU receive over $500,000 in tax offsets. I would recommend her to anyone, regardless of the industry, and will be using her services again.

Michael Ott

Director, FoundU foundu.com.au

Penny’s initial questions allowed us to provide a detailed brief about the tone we wanted for our website as well as background info we thought would be helpful. Then we met and found Penny to be an excellent listener and collaborator, keen to workshop ideas to find the right voice and generous with her time. Speedy turnaround time from Penny mean tthat first draft to final copy was achieved inside a week.

All these qualities combined with Penny’s writing talent has resulted in content that uses keywords to improve our SEO and is spot-on in tone, quality and quantity. Penny’s writing describes our business,

Skippers at Dundee, in a way that builds interest and enthusiasm. Talented, professional and collaborative, Penny is someone we would highly recommend and would love to work with again.

Cath Kelly

Owner, Skippers at Dundee, skippersatdundee.com