What We Do Not Fund
Areas of Exclusion
The Trust is only able to support organisations with charity tax concession status (TCC) that operate solely within Victoria or who have a Victorian Board of Management, producing separate financial statements, and the project being funded must take place only within Victoria.
Applications for the following will not be supported:
Funding requests by an auspicing institution.
Deficit funding or organisations with a potential negative equity position.
Retrospective funding, meaning support for programs that have already taken place.
Recurrent administrative costs.
Projects/programs which are usually conducted on an annual or other regular time basis eg. camps, festivals etc.
Infrastructure projects and service programs considered to be government responsibility at a Federal, State or Local Government level.
Grants direct to individuals, including travel expenses, personal study or attendances at conferences or indirectly to individuals eg. cash handouts and reimbursements.
Grants for preparation of websites.
Political organisations.
Sporting clubs, film making projects, theatre productions and exhibition sponsorships, unless directly related to a welfare need.
School building projects, including private schools, unless the projects will also be used for a wider community benefit.
Conferences and seminars.
Purchase of buses and/or cars.