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Storytelling in business

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Emphasis is the UK’s leading communication training provider, offering specialist learning programmes and consultancy services to private and public sector organisations all over the world.

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Emphasis has been enabling organisations and individuals to make their communication work for 25 years. Find out more about our story and our work below.

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Richard Leggatt

Richard is a proposal writer and fundraising expert with over 20 years’ experience in the charity sector. He’s also one of our specialist business-writing trainers.

His fundraising career has seen him engage with individual donors, government funding agencies and international foundations. This experience honed his ability to communicate specific messages to a wide range of audiences – a skill which has helped him lead teams to win multiple seven-figure bids.

He shares his experience and insights in the training room and here on the Emphasis Knowledge Hub.

How to write a compelling needs statement for a grant proposal

Bids and proposals, Knowledge Hub

Why grant proposals are rejected (and what to do if yours is)

Bids and proposals, Knowledge Hub

Goals, objectives, outcomes and more: navigating the language of grant proposals

Bids and proposals, Knowledge Hub