What you can spend the money on

What we can fund

We can fund:

• your organisation's running costs
• equipment
• one-off events
• staff costs
• training costs
• transport
• utilities
• volunteer expenses
• part of your organisation’s overheads
• some capital costs

We’ll fund the delivery of the project. And we’ll fund some of the indirect project costs

Also known as overheads. This could include things like rent or insurance. Or part of a salary for someone not working directly on the project. Like a senior manager or an office admin worker.

For example, the project you’re applying for could be half of the work your organisation does. In that case, we could fund half of your overheads.

This is sometimes known as full cost recovery. Find out how to work out overheads in our guide to full cost recovery.

We can also fund some capital costs

That’ll support you to deliver systems change. For example, equipment and technology.

But we will not fund:

• projects that are mostly for capital costs
• large scale refurbishments or buying land and buildings.

If you think you’ll need funding for capital costs, contact us.

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.
• large scale refurbishments or buying land and buildings