County councillor's fund

1. Staff costs or salaries of any kind 
2. Any ongoing running costs of an activity e.g. insurance, fees, rent, transport, premises costs (such as utilities, room hire etc.) 
3. Accommodation costs 
4. Professional costs (such as legal fees, consultant fees etc.) 
5. Projects run for the benefit of an individual person or anyone’s financial benefit 
6. 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 or funds raised for national distribution 
7. Any predominant spending on food or consumables that are to be distributed to third parties (such as food packages). However, food or 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 
8. Healthcare and treatment services 
9. Formal education (this does not include informal training opportunities – such as first aid qualifications) 
10. Provision or duplication of any core statutory service/responsibility generally resourced from/by other statutory organisations or mainstream budgets (including schools, libraries, and highways departments). Applications from public sector organisations such as schools and libraries may still be considered but must be for items that are over and above the everyday responsibilities of such organisations and be able to demonstrate a wide community benefit. 
11. Activity that is already funded by, or falls under the remit of, the other SCC funds (see section 5 Other funds) 
12. Individually prescribed, targeted and specialist exercise and weight management programmes  
13. Any predominantly religious activity or spending on the land or buildings of places of worship (This does not preclude religious organisations from making bids for non-religious activity). 
14. Any political activity 
15. Projects for the benefit of residents predominantly from outside Staffordshire 
16. Any activity that discriminates on the basis of race, religion, gender, nationality, disability, age or sexual orientation 
17. Profit-making ventures, ticketed commercial events or activity to make a commercial profit, or where it is not possible to confirm that funding would not be used for commercial profit 
18. 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) 
19. Political parties and organisations with political aims. Projects must be apolitical 
20. Organisations where a County Councillor – past or present – is a director, founder or holds a significant operational or decision-making role.  

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.