Ideally, please book at least two months before the grant due date, workshop or forum, or training course delivery. We sometimes offer discounts of up to 25% if you do this! However, this is a guide only, and we are just as happy to help in a tight timeline. 

Top tip: Don't let the delay of a grant scheme opening dissuade you from booking early. We accept tentative bookings with no cancellation fees if you decide not to proceed.

Our in-depth expert review and editing packages start at $690 (+ GST) for a smaller grant like an ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA). Larger grants require more of our time and effort, so you can expect to pay $2,900 (+ GST) for an in-depth review of a medium-sized grant (like an ARC Linkage Project or a Cooperative Research Centre Project proposal), more if you would like us to help with proposal writing and/or coordination.

The exact process differs depending on you and your project. For example, some of our clients love to write, others are very happy to hand that particular task over to us! But our general process is to kick off with a team meeting and a completion plan that specifies who needs to do what and by when. We may "interview" you or your colleagues to gather information. We may join your team and help out wherever you need us, or work only on pre-agreed tasks.

We have helped our clients win more than $200 million in grant funding, plus much more in partner cash and in-kind contributions. We have significantly higher rates of success than the average success rates of schemes including ARC Training Centres (27-35% average success rate), ARC DECRA (17-19%), and CRC-P (often 6-12%). Clients working with us are therefore more likely to succeed than without us.

Rather than a problem, at Straight Up we believe that neurodiversity is a superpower! 

We really get it and (maybe because some of us are "on the spectrum" ourselves), we have a special place in our hearts to work with neurodiverse superheroes to help them communicate and navigate the waters to achieve their goals.

Reach out to us, we know where you're coming from!

ARC, CRC, CRCP, ARENA, AEA, NHMRC, Community Grants, State Government schemes, international grants, commercial grants

Mainly, but not completely! We have supported bids in social spaces, economics, tourism, education and more. We believe that everything is science(!), but we have a genuine human aspect to our work and have supported successful bids in many and diverse spaces

We also do communications training, strategy and business planning, and have vast experience in preparing comms documents from scratch. This includes document production, graphic design, event management and marketing planning. Ask us how!