Categories of projects not funded by the NAC
- Ad hoc groups
- Architecture
- Book launches
- CD, DVD and video production
- Church choirs
- Competitions, prize money and adjudication
- Event management
- General fashion shows
- General magazines
- Hosting of web sites
- Individuals applying for publishing
- Infrastructure costs
- Interior design
- Music arrangement of other persons’ work without permission
- Personal commissions and commissions by other institutions
- Promoters
- Purchasing of books
- Purchasing of equipment/acquisition of musical instruments and stage equipment
- Recording and studio time
- Running costs
- Seed funding
- Vanity press
- Website design
- Writing in other subjects that are not of creative writing genre
- Applications from individuals working for government departments and entities