Those forks aren’t the best – but most cost effective things to change are air pressure in your front the (are you tubeless / running low pressure), air pressure in the forks then bars and grips.
With my front tyre I’m running a 2.5wt Maxxis on one bike and a 2.4 chunky monkey on the other but they might not fit through your recon. Either way if you aren’t tubeless I’d go that way and run something like 20-25 psi in the front tyre (I tend to run 25 in the rear but lower on the front for grip).
I’ve already commented on the bars – but I’d change the fork before spending anything like £100 on a fancy handlebar.
Is the fork setup as best you can – sensible sag / I’m not sure if you have compression damping adjustment on there? If you have make sure you’re not running too much compression.