4. What we can't fund
This fund is currently closed to new applications. We have a grants mailing list which provides updates on when new funding opportunities are open to new applications. To be added to our grants mailing list, please contact us at engagement@eastdevon.gov.uk.
If you have any queries, please email us at community.grants@eastdevon.gov.uk
The following projects will not be eligible for funding under this scheme.
Public body related
- Any project where funding can be or has been provided by an alternative grant scheme by East Devon District Council within a rolling 12-month period.
- Projects that have had other public sector funding that has been withdrawn.
- Any project that does not support one of the two council plan priorities as listed.
- Projects that have a negative effect or work against one or more of the priorities listed in our council plan or existing services.
- Work that a statutory organisation has to do by law, for example Devon County Council, the Church or the NHS, unless this is over and above what they would ever provide.
- Projects where planning permission is required but hasn’t yet been given.
- Projects working with vulnerable people where there isn’t a Safeguarding Policy and / or appropriately trained staff / volunteers in place or can be evidenced as being in place by the time the project is delivered.
- Regular highways-related activity such as but not limited to grass cutting, ditch and drainage work or other associated ‘lengthsman’ duties and tasks.
- Projects that promote or support a particular politics, faith or belief (including repairs to buildings used solely or mainly for these activities).
- Projects considered likely to create a new or displaced dependency on other public and voluntary services.
Finance related
- Projects from purely commercial or for- “private-profit” organisations.
- Individuals or projects that result in direct cash payments or awards to the end beneficiaries
- Funds that are required to help pay off debts.
- Ongoing costs including ongoing rent costs, ongoing salaries, costs for the day to day running of an organisation, unless this is during a transition phase with documented evidence of how the project will become sustainable post transition, or as part of a pilot project.
- Projects seeking a commitment to ongoing support or where ongoing support is required to achieve the project’s aims
- Where funding has previously been granted under this Community Grant Fund and has not been distributed in accordance with the grant agreement, further funding applications will not be accepted.
Other related
- Project sponsorship and fundraising events.
- Projects benefitting one individual recipient, e.g. an individual carer.
- Projects where more than 10% of the people benefiting from the project live outside of East Devon.
- Animal welfare projects where the sole/majority of beneficiaries are animals (i.e. charity, rescue or therapy).
- Retrospective costs or costs to cover existing services
- Any project run by a PTA (Parent Teacher association)