WHAT WE DON’T
FUND
Exceptions/Generally we don’t fund:
- Individuals
- Projects that are not substantially influenced by their target beneficiaries
- National organisations or groups based outside the Merseyside region even where some of the service users come from the area
- Statutory work
- Universities, colleges and schools or work done with children in school time
- Faith-based projects exclusively for members of that faith, or for the promotion of religion
- Capital building costs
- Festivals, carnivals and fêtes
- Medicine or medical equipment
- Holidays and expeditions
- Gifts, parties etc.
- Conferences
- Sport
- Vehicles
- Animal charities
- Arts and the creative industries
- Academic or medical research
- Veterans
- Uniformed groups (e.g. scouts, cadets, majorettes) .
- Sponsorship, advertising or fund-raising events
- Counsellors not registered with BACP or UKCP
* With regard to Sport and the Arts our Trustees will consider applications for projects that involve sporting and/or artistic activities so long as the primary purpose of the organisation is not sporting or artistic and fits within their priorities for funding.