Quick charity question/opinion please? I run a small charity with some friends, think of it as us fundraising through concerts then we offer small grants in our local area for music lessons. This is not the actual purpose of the charity but explains things well so you can understand my question. The grants are supposed to be for local music lessons for those who can suddenly no longer afford them (job loss, divorce etc) we specifically state that we do not fund overseas music lessons.
A couple of us receive applications, so only we know the names, we then collate and try and anonymise them and the others get together as a group and decide who is getting a grant.
This year we received several applications from people who we know are taking overseas music lessons but they didn’t mention it in their application and asked us for local lesson fees. Can we use our knowledge of their overseas lessons to disqualify their application? We are 100% sure they are taking overseas music lessons, they told us they were, as well as it being all over their social media.
It is tricky, obviously someone can benefit from support for their music lessons and still go on holiday but as a group we think differently about how we handle this.
thanks