The Wrong Question Gets Funded
Money is spent on activity before the real constraint is understood.
Project Readiness & Pricing
From Uncertainty to an Investable Decision
Before major capital can move into an empty building, someone must fund the work that makes the opportunity credible. GreenLit brings the evidence, people, commercial strategy, and delivery pathway together for one named building.
Commission the decision you need now, or choose the complete £126,000 GreenLit Package to coordinate the route from early uncertainty towards an investment ready proposition.
Discuss Pricing Across a PortfolioWhy Readiness Capital Matters
Development Capital Should Not Pay to Discover Preventable Problems
The first readiness investment protects later capital decisions by strengthening the evidence, relationships, responsibilities, and commercial direction before larger money is expected to enter.
Partners Enter Without Clear Roles
Councils, owners, communities, advisers, and funders work from different assumptions.
The Capital Ask Lacks Evidence
The amount, purpose, structure, and route to delivery remain unclear.
Projects Stall Between Studies
Separate commissions create handoffs, repetition, and lost accountability.
The first investment is not always in the building. It is in making the right building investable.
Compare the Three Decision GatesThree Separately Commissioned Gates
Choose the Decision You Need to Make
Every gate funds a different level of evidence and coordination. Each one ends with a visible decision so the buyer can proceed, pause, strengthen, reconsider, or stop before committing more money.
Gate 01
Grand Grade™
£6,000 Including VAT
DecisionGo or Pause
Commercial Question
What do we know, and what needs attention first?
Purpose
Create an initial evidence led view of the building, its context, and whether deeper readiness work is justified.
What the Buyer Funds
- Initial evidence review
- Ownership and context checks
- Visible opportunity and constraint identification
- Prioritised questions
- A recommendation on whether deeper work is justified
Value Created
A clear first decision, a prioritised evidence picture, and a proportionate next step.
Commission a Grand Grade™Gate 02
Kick Off
£60,000 Including VAT
DecisionGo, Stop, or Strengthen
Commercial Question
Who needs to align around the next move?
Purpose
Coordinate the people, evidence, specialist input, and viability direction needed to define a credible project route.
What the Buyer Funds
- Deeper technical and project evidence
- Coordination of stakeholders and specialists
- Planning, heritage, market, community, and delivery context
- Priority risk and opportunity definition
- A coordinated viability direction
- A clear go, stop, or strengthen recommendation
Value Created
A coordinated project direction with clearer risks, responsibilities, opportunities, and next decisions.
Discuss a Kick OffGate 03
Investment Readiness
£60,000 Including VAT
DecisionProceed or Reconsider
Commercial Question
What is the credible next ask, and on what evidence?
Purpose
Turn the strengthened opportunity into a clear commercial, funding, impact, and delivery proposition.
What the Buyer Funds
- Investment and funding requirement definition
- Financial and commercial proposition development
- Delivery and phasing strategy
- Risk, responsibility, and mitigation clarity
- Impact and place based value framing
- Funder ready and partner ready outputs
- A credible next capital ask
Value Created
A proposition that appropriate funders, investors, and delivery partners can evaluate.
Prepare the Investment CaseChoose with Confidence
Not Sure Which Gate Fits Your Building?
The Complete Package
One Building. Three Decision Gates. One Coordinated Purchase.
£126,000Including VAT per Named Building
Grand Grade™£6,000
plusKick Off£60,000
plusInvestment Readiness£60,000
equalsGreenLit Package£126,000
The GreenLit Package keeps the evidence, decisions, responsibilities, and next capital ask coordinated from beginning to end.
One Accountable Readiness Pathway
Clear ownership of the work from initial assessment through to the capital proposition.
Fewer Disconnected Handoffs
Evidence and decisions move forward instead of being repeatedly recreated.
A Stronger Capital Ask
The project reaches funders and partners with clearer needs, risks, roles, and delivery logic.
A Home for Catalytic Capital
Heritage, community, public, philanthropic, place based, and impact capital can fund the work that makes larger investment possible.
Where the Budget Goes
Where the GreenLit Package Budget Goes
The commission funds the coordinated evidence, expertise, technology, specialist inputs, and decision making work required to create a credible next move.
Project Leadership
- Grand Bequest project leadership
- Programme coordination
- Meetings, reviews, governance, and decision gates
Evidence and Technology
- Platform, data, and evidence infrastructure
- Ownership and building context investigation
- Decision ready and capital ready outputs
Specialist Readiness Work
- Technical, heritage, planning, market, and viability expertise
- Financial, investment, and delivery modelling
- Specialist partner inputs
People, Place, and Impact
- Community and stakeholder engagement
- Social Return on Investment analysis where included in scope
- Impact measurement and management
- Impact and outcomes framing
Scope, responsibilities, specialist inputs, impact requirements, and expected outputs are agreed before commissioning.
Where the Money Moves
Readiness Commission
The agreed budget enters the readiness programme.
Evidence, Expertise, and Coordination
The work strengthens the project and its commercial direction.
Decision Gate
Go, Pause, Stop, Strengthen, Proceed, or Reconsider.
Credible Project and Capital Ask
The next requirement is clearer and better evidenced.
Funding, Investment, and Delivery Conversations
Appropriate capital and partners can evaluate the opportunity.
How Capital Moves
Fund the Work That Makes Larger Capital Safer to Evaluate
Readiness capital pays for the work that turns a building opportunity into a proposition that larger funders, investors, and delivery partners can assess.
- 01A Building or Portfolio Is Identified
- 02Readiness Capital Funds the GreenLit Work
- 03Evidence, Viability, and Impact Requirements Are Strengthened
- 04A Credible Capital and Delivery Ask Is Produced
- 05Appropriate Capital Can Evaluate the Opportunity
Place and Community Outcomes
- Heritage protection
- Community empowerment
- Place making
- Housing and community uses
- Local economic development
Capital and Delivery Outcomes
- Climate and circular economy outcomes
- Pre development and viability work
- Pipeline creation
- Impact investment
- Catalytic and blended finance objectives
The GreenLit Package does not replace development capital. It helps create the conditions in which development capital can enter more responsibly.
Impact That Capital Providers Can Understand
Measure the Value Created Alongside the Capital Deployed
GreenLit projects can incorporate impact measurement and management so capital providers, councils, communities, and delivery partners can understand the social, economic, environmental, and place based value a project is intended to create.
Social Return on Investment
Support for defining, measuring, and communicating the social value created relative to the resources invested, where appropriate to the project and agreed scope.
Impact Measurement and Management
Clear outcomes, indicators, stakeholder evidence, baselines, targets, and reporting requirements that can help funders understand whether intended impact is being achieved.
Capital and Impact Alignment
A clearer link between the project’s funding requirement, intended outcomes, beneficiaries, delivery responsibilities, and evidence needed by capital providers.
Ongoing Learning
A structure that supports monitoring, review, and improvement as a project moves from readiness towards funding and delivery.
Aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals
Grand Bequest’s regeneration work is most directly aligned with the following United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
SDG 8 Decent Work and Economic Growth
Regeneration can support employment, local supply chains, skills, productive reuse, and inclusive economic activity.
SDG 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities
Bringing empty and underused buildings back into useful life can support inclusive places, community resilience, housing, heritage, and sustainable urban development.
SDG 12 Responsible Consumption and Production
Building reuse can retain embodied value, reduce waste, support circular construction, and make more responsible use of existing assets.
SDG alignment describes contribution themes. It does not imply United Nations endorsement, partnership, certification, or guaranteed impact.
Greater Efficiency Through Scale
The £126,000 Price Is the Starting Point for Greater Efficiency
The current £126,000 price reflects the multidisciplinary readiness work required for one named building. Grand Bequest intends to reduce the unit cost over time through platform automation, reusable evidence, standardised workflows, repeat delivery, and larger project bundles.
Platform Efficiency
Automation, reusable data, and standardised workflows.
Delivery Efficiency
Reduced duplication, repeat partners, and faster coordination.
Bundle Efficiency
Shared procurement, evidence, and programme governance.
Portfolio Efficiency
Common programme costs spread across more buildings.
One Building
Use the £126,000 GreenLit Package as the current reference point for one named building.
A Building Bundle
Agree a shared scope, evidence approach, programme, and delivery model across multiple projects.
A Place or Portfolio
Design a readiness programme around available capital, target outcomes, and the number of buildings.
The more buildings that move through one coordinated programme, the more common costs can be shared and the less each building should need to carry alone.
Portfolio and bundle pricing is scoped separately and must reflect genuine shared efficiencies. No specific future price reduction is guaranteed.
Discuss Portfolio PricingWho Can Commission or Fund the Work
Choose the Route That Matches Your Role
Councils and Public Bodies
Create a more stable, prioritised, and investment ready pipeline of empty building opportunities.
Discuss a Council PipelineOwners and Local Champions
Fund the next credible decision for one named building instead of commissioning unconnected advice.
Start with Your BuildingImpact, Catalytic, and Philanthropic Funders
Support the evidence, viability, community, and impact work that can unlock larger pools of capital.
Fund Project ReadinessInstitutional and Place Based Investors
Support a readiness programme that prepares projects before they reach investment committees.
Discuss an Investment PipelineHeritage and Community Organisations
Create a credible route from local ambition to evidence, funding, impact, and delivery conversations.
Discuss a Community Led ProjectDevelopers and Delivery Partners
Enter projects with clearer constraints, responsibilities, commercial logic, and stakeholder context.
Explore a Delivery PartnershipCommercial Questions
Frequently Asked Commercial and Impact Questions
Clear answers about commissioning, capital, impact, scope, and what happens next.
Why Does the GreenLit Package Cost £126,000?+
The price reflects a coordinated multidisciplinary readiness programme for one named building. It funds evidence, project leadership, technology, specialist inputs, stakeholder coordination, commercial development, impact requirements, and decision ready outputs across all three gates.
Can I Buy Only One Gate?+
Yes. Grand Grade™, Kick Off, and Investment Readiness can each be commissioned separately. The right starting point depends on the decision you need to make and the evidence already available.
Is the GreenLit Package a Guarantee That a Project Will Proceed?+
No. Readiness work is designed to improve decisions, not predetermine them. A responsible result may be to proceed, pause, strengthen, reconsider, or stop.
Can a Funder Pay for a GreenLit Package for Someone Else’s Building?+
Potentially, yes. A council, philanthropic funder, impact investor, place based partner, or other sponsor may fund readiness work for a named building or programme, subject to an agreed scope and appropriate relationships with the building owner and project stakeholders.
Can the Work Be Matched to a Fixed Capital Budget?+
The scope can be shaped around a defined decision and available readiness budget where that budget can support credible work. Grand Bequest will make clear what can and cannot be achieved within the proposed scope.
Can the Unit Price Fall Across a Larger Portfolio?+
Larger bundles may create genuine efficiencies through shared procurement, evidence, technology, workflows, delivery partners, and programme governance. Portfolio pricing is scoped separately, and no specific future reduction is guaranteed.
What Happens After the GreenLit Package?+
The next step depends on the evidence and decision reached. It may include funding applications, investment conversations, delivery partner engagement, planning work, procurement, further specialist work, or a decision to pause or reconsider.
Does the £126,000 Include Construction?+
No. The GreenLit Package funds project readiness. Construction, acquisition, major design development, statutory fees, and delivery capital are separate unless explicitly included in an agreed scope.
Can the GreenLit Package Include SROI or Impact Measurement?+
Potentially, yes. Social Return on Investment, impact measurement and management, outcome frameworks, indicators, and reporting requirements can be incorporated where they are relevant and agreed within the project scope.
How Does the Work Align with SDGs 8, 11, and 12?+
Grand Bequest’s work supports themes associated with decent work and economic growth, sustainable cities and communities, and responsible consumption and production. The precise contribution depends on the building, intended use, delivery model, and agreed impact outcomes.
Still Have a Commercial or Impact Question?
Ask the Project Readiness TeamYour Next Decision
What Are You Trying to Move Forward?
Whether you have one named building, capital looking for projects, an impact objective, or a place-based portfolio, choose the route that best matches the decision you need to make next.
Discuss a Portfolio, Capital, or Impact PartnershipOne Named BuildingCapital Looking for ProjectsA Place or Portfolio ProgrammeAn Impact or SDG Objective
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