What cannot be funded

Purposes prohibited by the fund include:

1. Goods or services that the grant recipient has a duty to provide.
2. CDF funding cannot be used to replace existing funding received by a group, nor can it be used to deliver activities that the group is already contractually obliged to deliver.
3.  Items which are due to be paid for by other public or private sector grants.
4. Statutory fines, criminal fines or penalties.
5. Liabilities incurred prior to the date of this agreement.
6. Any professional marketing, advertising or promotional activity. In practice this means that Community First grant cannot be spent on any of the following:
   1. Paid for advertising and marketing activity, such as notices in newspapers, journals, local radio spots etc.
   2. Professional printing of publications, such as posters, leaflets and fliers
   3. All paid for events, conferences and exhibitions, including hire of venues for purely promotional events
   4. Professional web design.
7. Payments to statutory organisations, such as Local Authorities, schools, the Police Force and arms length public sector organisations. This includes organisations that are in any way controlled by, for example, a Local Authority, a Primary Care Trust or agencies of these.
8. Any party political activity.
9. Activity where the key purpose is to promote a religious doctrine or the beliefs of a particular faith.
10. Commercial ventures.
11. Organisations working in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, or those that primarily benefit communities overseas in Europe or elsewhere. The grant must be used for activity within local communities in England.
12. Certain types of activities that support Asylum Seeker groups. This funding cannot be used for the provision of services to asylum seekers when those services are inconsistent with immigration laws or Home Office policy. For the purposes of this fund, an ‘asylum seeker’ means a person who has brought an asylum or human rights claim in the UK which has not yet been determined by either the Secretary of State or relevant authorities. It also includes a person who is a dependant on such a claim. Further information can be found at: http://www.ind.homeoffice.gov.uk
13. Funding of organisations which support or promote extremist views or which do not support the fundamental British values of human rights; equality before the law, democracy and full participation in UK society.