The CFCF provides direct and indirect financial support to a wide variety of NPF programs and activities. The CFCF offers a low interest (4 per cent) loans program to Base Funds and Messes to finance a wide variety of capital projects (construction, renovations, furnishings, etc). In addition, the CFCF makes interest free-loans to units deploying (such as deployed ships or UN operations) to finance their canteen and mess inventories during the deployment.