Faith-Based Charities Editing and Proofreading Services

A faith-based charity holds two accounts of itself that must both be true. To its congregation and supporters, the work is an expression of belief and is described that way. To a local authority commissioning a service, a secular funder assessing a bid, or a person arriving at the door in difficulty, what matters is what is delivered and on what terms. Charities that write only the first account lose funding they should win; charities that write only the second lose the supporters who pay for everything the funding does not cover.

We edit what faith-based charities and religious social action organisations produce — funding applications to secular and statutory funders, service descriptions and access criteria, statements on faith basis and non-discrimination, safeguarding policies and their theological framing, volunteer recruitment and role descriptions, congregation-facing appeals and newsletters, partnership agreements with councils and other providers, grant reports and outcomes documentation, governance documents and trustee recruitment, chaplaincy and pastoral service documentation, community meal, night shelter and support service material, international and mission programme reporting, and communications for interfaith and multi-faith contexts. Our editors work within your tradition's language and do not neutralise it.

The statement of faith basis is the document that decides secular funding, and organisations tend to write it either too thinly or too thickly. Too thin — a single line saying the charity was founded on Christian values — invites the funder to wonder what is being concealed. Too thick, and an assessor with no theological frame cannot tell whether service users will be preached at, whether a volunteer of another faith or none would be welcome, or whether help is conditional. We write these so the faith basis is stated plainly as motivation, and then answered against the questions a funder actually has: whether service access depends in any way on belief or participation, what happens if someone asks about faith and what happens if they do not, who is eligible to volunteer and to be employed and where any occupational requirement genuinely applies, and how the charity handles a service user who wants spiritual support and one who wants none. Answered directly, the faith basis stops being a risk in the assessor's mind and becomes what it is: an explanation of why this organisation has three hundred volunteers and the secular applicant has eleven.

Everything you send is treated in confidence, including funding bids, safeguarding material and congregation correspondence. We are editors rather than theologians, lawyers or funding advisers, and we offer no view on doctrine, on equality and employment law, or on any funder's requirements. What we can do is make both accounts of your work clear and consistent with each other.