What we don't fund
- Organisations whose postcode is not within the IMD deprivation limits set out in our funding guidelines
- Newly established organisations with no previous annual accounts
- Individuals, whether direct or through a third party
- Charities or NGOs registered outside the UK
- Statutory services including state schools, local or national authorities, prisons, NHS hospitals or services
- Universities, further education colleges and independent schools
- Organisations with an annual income over £1m
- Hospices
- Organisations with primarily an environmental aim
- Grant making organisations or umbrella organisations
- Organisations that have applied to us unsuccessfully within the previous 12 months
- Organisations which have made their annual returns to the Charity Commission or Companies House late within the past three years
- Organisations which have not reviewed their safeguarding policy and/or held formal safeguarding training/refresher sessions within the past 12 months
- Trustees are unlikely to fund organisations holding more than twelve months operating costs in reserves.
Types of Projects We Do Not Fund
- Capital projects
- Set up costs for new organisations
- Projects outside the UK
- Animal welfare
- Environment and conservation
- Medical research
- Feasibility studies
- One-off events (except under the Small Grants programme)
- PR and awareness raising; fundraising salaries, events, initiatives or websites
- Non-secular activities
- Projects primarily concerned with the production of films, podcasts or other media
- For Small Grants: urban projects not delivered in the same city/town (or borough for London) in which the applying organisation is based