What you can’t get funding for
Some projects, activities, events or schemes do not fall within the criteria for a neighbourhood investment funds, therefore applications will not be considered for the following:
- Projects that do not directly benefit Manchester residents;
- Traffic-calming schemes or CCTV;
- Projects that simply replace existing facilities with no significant improvement;
- Projects that improve or benefit privately owned land to which the public have no access and un-adopted roads and footpaths;
- Projects that have already been completed or will have been by the time the grant is issued;
- Ongoing revenue funding of staff wages, salaries or expenses or overheads such as rent, leases or utility costs;
- Projects that only benefit individuals (e.g. qualifications, counselling sessions, professional legal advice etc.);
- Groups cannot directly benefit financially from their own application (they cannot be a fiscal beneficiary);
- Purchase of alcohol and gambling activities;
- Activities of a religious or political nature; or
- Activities that are contrary to Manchester City Council’s equal opportunities policy.
See what neighbourhood investments funds can be used for.