Kate Williamson

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Display name	Kate Williamson
First name	Kate
Last name	Williamson
Website	http://kateewilliamson.com
Bio	I build websites for creatives, charities and small organisations and am the Creative Director at Margate Film Festival.
Member since	November 30, -0001
Topics posted	2
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- Website advice, support & budget outlines for funding bids
  March 27, 2026
- Hello from Margate Film Festival (and the FFA Website Designer!)
  March 27, 2026
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- We were finally granted CIO status after applying back in August or so. Was expecting there to be requests for further information but it was seemingly much more straightforward than expected! Happy that we can now accept gift aid!
  March 27, 2026
- I've got to jump in on this one because I'm a HUGE fan of using AI. I use Claude mostly, and the more I use it the more it learns about what I want/need and background information that it offers up when I'm working on something new. We (Margate Film Festival) successfully applied for a Film Exhibition Fund grant last year through which I had a lot of help from both a professional fundraiser (www.phoebeapollo.com - she's great) and our chief trustee - but AI made the whole process so much smoother. My way of doing it is to upload both the funding guidelines and links to any relevant documents or websites with background information and ask it to find overlaps between that and our own website (and I'll upload a few previous funding bids, documents, policies, articles etc). It always gives me a really strong foundation that links our existing work to what they are looking for. Then I'll get it to go through the full application and fill out a first draft, before workshopping each section one by one. As somebody with ADHD who gets very overwhelmed by funding applications, and who is predominantly volunteering time, AI has transformed this work flow completely and I feel SO much more empowered and able to tackle long applications.
  March 27, 2026

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