Ineligible Lottery capital costs

The following capital costs are ineligible for National Lottery funding, and therefore are ineligible for investment by the Iconic Facilities programme:

• Projects intended primarily for private gain
• Grants that contribute directly to a company's distributable profits
• Endowments
• Funds to build up a reserve or surplus
• Retrospective funding (costs incurred prior to programme launch)
• Loan repayments
• Activities that primarily promote religious belief
• Purchase of leaseholds of less than 21 years
• Minor works, repairs or maintenance (for example, replacing a leaking roof on an existing facility)
• Floodlighting for natural turf pitches
• Personal equipment / fixed or loose equipment that is not part of a wider capital build
• Maintenance equipment, fixed or loose equipment or office equipment not essential to the equipping of the facility.

This list of examples is by no means exhaustive.