What you can spend the money on
What we can fund
We can fund:
- your organisation's project delivery and running costs
- equipment
- one-off events
- staff costs
- training costs
- transport
- utilities
- volunteer expenses
- evaluation costs
What we cannot fund
We cannot fund:
- retrospective costs (costs for things that have already happened, or you’ve already paid for)
- alcohol
- contingency costs, loans, endowments or interest
- paying someone else to write your application for you
- fundraising activities (where you use our funding to raise more money)
- VAT you can reclaim
- religious activities (we can fund religious organisations if their project benefits the wider community and does not include religious content)
- statutory activities
- activities that help children or young people with their schoolwork during school time
- overseas travel
- projects that take place outside of the UK
- activities that make profits for private gain
- cash that will be given directly to individuals
- political campaigning and lobbying