What we will NOT fund - exclusions

Outside the remit of the Main Fund – no matter how worthwhile – are:

• Grants to individuals or to causes that will benefit only one person, including student grants or bursaries
  
  
• Work that does not have a direct benefit in the UK, including expeditions  and overseas travel
  
  
• Capital costs and equipment
  
  
• Work that is well-established and well-proven. Examples of the kind of work we consider to be so are:
  
  
  • Mainstream activities of organisations which are part of a wider network of others (e.g. Age Concern, CABx, MIND)
    
    
  • Standard services which are provided in similar ways across multiple locations such as refuges, contact centres, sports associations, playgroups, play schemes, out of school clubs, supplementary schools, playgroups, youth clubs and routine capacity building/professional development
    
    
  • Energy efficiency or waste reduction schemes with no exceptional social benefits, such as recycling or renewable energy schemes
    
    
  • Routine information and advice work
    
    
• Outward bound courses, recreational activities and adventure experiences
  
  
• Healthcare or related work such as medical research, complementary medicine, hospices, counselling and therapy, education and treatment for substance misuse
  
  
• Work that is primarily the responsibility of central or local government, health trusts or health authorities. This includes residential, respite and day care, housing and homelessness, individual schools, nurseries and colleges, and vocational training. In this context please note that:
  
  
  • We do not replace or subsidise statutory funding
    
    
  • We are unlikely to make grants for vocational training (meaning training that may result in specific employment)
    
    
• Projects that primarily benefit the independent education sector
  
  
• Projects related to animal welfare, zoos, captive breeding and animal rescue centres
  
  
• General appeals or circulars
  
  
• The promotion of religion
  
  
• Retrospective funding, meaning support for work that has already taken place.

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