What you can spend the funding on
We can fund
You can use the funding for things like:
- overheads, such as costs that keep your organisation running. We can fund a share of these to help make sure delivering your project does not cost you extra. This is sometimes called full cost recovery
- equipment
- one-off events
- staff salaries
- training
- transport
- utility bills
- volunteer expenses
- accessibility costs
- capital costs such as buying land or buildings, refurbishments, or vehicles
Political activity and campaigning
We can fund some political activity or campaigning, but only in certain circumstances.
Your project must:
- not be party political – it should focus on policy, practice or legislation, not support or oppose a political party
- support your organisation’s purpose and benefit the public or society
We will not fund projects where political activity is the main purpose.
But we can fund projects that mainly focus on campaigning, as long as they meet the conditions above.
We cannot fund
There are some things we’re not able to fund. These include:
- costs for things that have already happened or been paid for (retrospective costs)
- alcohol
- contingency costs, loans, endowments or interest
- application-writing services or consultants
- activities that make a private profit or raise money for fundraising
- VAT you can reclaim
- religious activity (we can fund religious organisations if the project benefits the wider community and does not include religious content)
- statutory duties or activities
- activities that support schoolwork during school hours
- travel outside the UK
- projects that happen outside the UK
- giving cash directly to individuals