We cannot fund any activities that:

  • National projects that do not have a connection regionally or locally
  • Activities that include an intentionality to cause physical harm
  • Applications from individuals or that benefit just one individual
  • Projects that offer mainly one-to-one support*
  • Projects where a significant part of the grant will be passed to another organisation to deliver activities
  • Profit-making organisations, which includes all Limited Liability Partnerships and Companies Limited by Shares
  • Tax-funded projects, such as projects within the NHS, or projects for schoolaged children in school time; projects which should be funded by public services
  • Health promotion activities which aim to change behaviour, for example, lifestyle advice on healthy eating or nutrition, giving up smoking, or losing weight
  • Activities which are party political or religious in intention, practice or appearance
  • Are proposed by profit-making organisations, which includes all Limited Liability Partnerships and Companies Limited by Shares.
  • Are party political or religious in intention, practice or appearance.
  • Activities already funded by another organisation
  • Projects that have already happened
  • Loan repayments
  • Capital items only; you must include running costs
  • Contingency, evaluation or unspecified costs*
  • Fundraising costs
  • Organisations that are non-compliant with their regulators (for example, Charity Commission, OSCR or Companies House) at the time of application. We will also not consider applications from organisations which have a significant history of non-compliance. We may take an exception if there are clear mitigating circumstances for your organisation's non-compliance.

*Except in Advice for Health where one to one support is accepted in the criteria.

* Evaluation costs can be included in Advice for Health budgets.