County councillor's fund

1. Staff costs or salaries of any kind
2. Any ongoing running costs of existing activity e.g. insurance, fees, rent, transport, premises costs (such as utilities, room hire etc.)
3. Projects run for the benefit of an individual person or anyone’s financial benefit
4. Broad fundraising efforts with no clear timeline for use of the councillor funding (i.e. crowdfunding efforts etc) or projects that involve your organisation redistributing the funding as a third party, including scholarships programmes etc
5. Any predominant spending on food or consumables that are distributed to third parties (such as food packages).  However,  refreshments to be provided as part of an event, or a one-off activity are acceptable. This does not preclude organisations that distribute food or consumables from making bids for activities, projects or events that support their work. This can include projects that promote independence, self-care and reablement, the purchase of storage facilities, or the distribution of items that support people to better understand how to support themselves.
6. Healthcare and treatment services
7. Formal education (this does not include informal training opportunities – such as first aid qualifications).
8. Provision or duplication of any core statutory service generally resourced from/by other statutory organisations (including schools, libraries, and highways departments)
9. Individually prescribed, targeted and specialist exercise and weight management programmes
10. Any predominantly religious activity or spending on the land or buildings of places of worship (but this does not preclude religious organisations from making bids for non-religious activity)
11. Any political activity
12. A statutory responsibility or services
13. Projects for the benefit of residents predominantly from outside Staffordshire
14. Any activity that discriminates on the basis of race, religion, gender, nationality, disability, age or sexual orientation
15. Activity to make a commercial profit, or where it is not possible to confirm that funding would not be used for commercial profit
16. Activity that is already funded by the other county council funds
17. Purchase of property/equipment/kits etc which would be given to group members to keep (in your application you will be asked to confirm that these would all remain the property of the organisation itself in the event that any members leave the group) 

If you feel you have a project that may achieve the outcomes required but are concerned by the restrictions above, you should discuss this with your county councillor ahead of making the application. 

Please also be aware that if your project is about working with people in high-risk cohorts, such as those recovering from drug and alcohol misuse, the county council may ask you to go through additional due diligence procedures.  This may have an impact on the time available for your project delivery.