GENERALLY WE DO NOT FUND:
- Individuals
- Projects that are not substantially influenced by their target beneficiaries
- National or regional organisations or groups based outside the area even where some of the service users come from Merseyside or Northern Ireland
- Statutory bodies or work previously done by them
- Mainstream education (schools, colleges, universities)
- Faith-based projects exclusively for members of that faith, or for the promotion of religion
- Capital building costs
- Festivals, carnivals and fêtes
- Medicine
- Holidays and expeditions
- Gifts, parties etc.
- Conferences
- Sport
- Vehicles
- Animal charities
- Arts, crafts, heritage, or local history projects
- Conservation and environmental projects
- Employment and enterprise schemes
- Academic or medical research
- Credit Unions - except for the training of management committee members or the development of a new business plan
- Uniformed groups (e.g. scouts, cadets, majorettes)
- Sponsorship, advertising or fund-raising events
- AND, in Northern Ireland only:
- Children & young people - except under the headings listed under "Grants for Northern Ireland" (link to the left)
- Playgroups except those which directly address marginalisation and focus on real social disadvantage.
