Some examples of projects funded by Awards for All:
- Developing an existing service in your area, such as a playgroup, lunch club or
information centre.
- Helping more people to play a fuller part in local life, for example producing a community newsletter, talking newspapers for people who are blind or visually impaired, mobility schemes or respite services.
- Helping your neighbourhood organisation to set up a new service in your community.
- Small improvements to premises that you own or lease.
- Developing skills for volunteers and committee members.
- Creating a wildlife garden.
- Providing start up costs for a neighbourhood composting scheme.
- Encouraging activities to promote healthier lives and good mental health such as keep fit classes for older people.
We will not fund:
- projects run by arts organisations or artists to carr
yout their work and/or engage people in the arts
- projects run by sports clubs that aim to increase
participation in sport
- projects run by organisations that aim to increase
awareness of the natural or built heritage in
Northern Ireland
- trips outside the UK
- general running costs which are not part of your
project, for example, regular ongoing staff costs,
rates, gas or electricity bills, routine repairs and
maintenance (including maintenance equipment),
regular rent payments
- salary costs of new permanent or fixed term staff
- major refurbishment or part-funding a major
capital project
- items which only benefit an individual, for example:
prizes, scholarships, bursaries, personal clothing or
equipment, purchase of tickets for events
- equipment stored in an organisation member’s home
- endowments
- Ioan payments
- vocational training
- VAT that you can recover from HM Revenue and
Customs
- child protection and vulnerable adult
registration fees
- activities promoting religious beliefs
- activities promoting political beliefs
- activities that are funded through taxes
- costs which will be paid to members of the
applicant organisation, for example, as tutors
or facilitators
- goods or services that you order or receive,
and activities or events that happen, before
the date of our award letter (this is called
retrospective funding)
- second-hand equipment
- donations (to individuals, organisations or charities)
- fundraising events or activities
- affiliation or membership fees (except if an
organisation is new)
- costs we think are unreasonable
- statutory organisations to run projects that only:
- engage people in the arts or
- increase participation in sport or
- increase awareness of natural or built heritage in
Northern Ireland.
