What you can spend the money on

What we can fund

You can apply for funding to cover things like:

• staff costs, including sessional workers
• development work, for example, staff training, governance support, or tech upgrades
• transport
• utilities and day-to-day running costs
• volunteer expenses
• learning and evaluation
• equipment
• minor capital costs for land or building work – these should not be a large part of your request
• costs for working in other languages, if you support people who do not speak English as a first language

Political activity and campaigning

We can fund political activity and campaigning, as long as:

• the work is not party political – it must focus on policy, practice or legislation, not supporting or opposing a political party
• the work helps your cause and benefits the public or society

We cannot fund projects where political activity is the main purpose. But we can fund projects that focus mainly on campaigning.

What we cannot fund

We do not fund:

• activities that make profit for private gain
• religious activities – unless the work benefits the wider community and does not include religious content
• activities that replace government funding
• activities that benefit individuals unreasonably, rather than the wider community
• retrospective costs – anything you’ve already spent money on
• loan repayments
• topping up reserves
• large capital or building projects