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What the money could be spent on

What we could fund

We could fund:

  • staff salaries for delivery of projects
  • volunteer costs for delivery of projects
  • training costs
  • service delivery. For example, any direct costs associated with delivering the youth work provision such as materials, equipment, food.
  • a share of an organisation's overheads. For example, any fixed costs to support the day to day running of organisations, such as overall management, administration and support staff costs, venue hire, rent and utilities.

We expect most of the costs to be staffing costs, including reporting back to the Fund and the Evaluators, with some minimal costs for equipment or food and some overhead costs.

We can fund some political activity and campaigning

But only if:

  • the activity is not party political. This means that it must be about policy, practice, or legislation rather than opposing or supporting a political party.
  • the activity is meant to help the cause of the organisation and benefit the public or society

We are not funding projects where political activities are the main purpose. But we could fund projects that are mainly about campaigning.

Overhead costs - how to work them out

Organisation overheads are costs shared among the organisation’s different projects and activities. We will fund the share of organisations' overheads for the critical services we’re funding. We call this full cost recovery. We ask organisations we fund to allocate the share on a fair and proportionate basis. Read about how to work out overheads in our guide to full cost recovery.

What we could not fund

We could not fund:

  • projects not delivering in, or benefitting young people who live in, an eligible local area
  • retrospective costs
  • land, larger building works or maintenance, or any refurbishment work
  • purchase of large assets including vehicles and any depreciation or amortisation related to purchases
  • activities that make profits for private gain
  • campaigning, political or lobbying activities (we’re only funding the delivery of direct services)
  • religious activities (we can fund religious organisations if their project benefits the wider community and does not include religious content)
  • loan repayments or interest payments
  • fundraising for other additional activities
  • VAT reclaimable from HMRC
  • services that the funded organisation has a statutory duty to provide
  • contributions in kind
  • partnership set up costs
  • entertaining
  • statutory fines or penalties