We want to encourage and fund new projects or existing projects that involve new ways of working
(based on learning). and new posts. We will fund the administration or management costs that result from your existing project, as long as they are in addition to your existing project costs. Among the costs we will fund are: (1) back-fill posts (staff cover when the main post holder is working on another project) (2) extra staff hours; and (3) extra responsibility payments caused by existing staff working on the new project.
We will also fund part of a post if it is in a new organisation or if you are creating a new post to work on more than one project. We will not fund a general contribution to running costs, such as a share of existing staff salaries or a percentage add-on to cover project management or administration. In general, we do not fund existing posts. However, we may consider this if you can prove that your organisation has received funds for existing posts or parts of posts from another source and that funding has been withdrawn. You will need to prove that the funding was directly for the posts in question and that it has definitely been withdrawn.
Some costs, such as phone, postage and stationery will rise as a result of new work. We will fund estimates for these costs, even if you cannot identify them as strictly relating to the new work. Any costs must be reasonable for the size of the project. You may include extra rent in your project budget only if you can show that the project would need more accommodation than is currently available. If you will carry out the new project in the same accommodation, do not include a budget for rent in the project budget.
Religious organisations and projects: We welcome applications from religious organisations that want to carry out work in the community. However, we do not normally fund projects designed to promote religion or to benefit people who practise a particular religion. This means that:
- people should not have to take part in any type of religious service to benefit from the project, and
- how you deliver the project should not contain elements that would exclude people who practise other religions or none at all.
Sometimes projects which benefit particular communities will mainly benefit people from one religion. We will accept this as long as your project plan takes steps to make sure that it will not exclude others for religious reasons.
