What CCF Won’t Fund
Cumbria Community Foundation will not award grants for:
• Animal welfare
• Contact Boxing (unless you are applying to Comic Relief)
• Businesses and personal profit
• Deficit funding
• General large appeals
• Medical research and equipment, except where donor advised
• Activities which are normally the responsibility of central or local government
• Sponsored events
• Many of our funds will not fund Statutory bodies
• Awards from the same in a 12 month period
• Projects which duplicate and existing service in a area
• Fundraisers and fundraising events
• Advancement of religion including buildings solely for religious purposes
• Party political activities
• Retrospective funding unless through a disaster appeal
• Purchase of vehicle unless fundholder directed
• Groups with less than 3 unrelated committee members or directors
• Groups or individuals who have not returned their monitoring form
• Beautification projects
• National organisations who do not have a local committee or office within Cumbria
• CICs who cannot show they are working towards financial stability
• Education establishments unless via PTA or Friends of Schools