What We Do Not Fund

Areas of Exclusion

The Trust has determined that applications for the following will not be supported:

• Projects outside of Victoria or where the benefits are intended to be derived outside Victoria. Applicants must be legally in situ in Victoria, separately constituted with a Victorian Board of Management, producing separate financial statements and its activities predominantly confined for the benefit of Victorians.

• 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 prepration 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.