Lloyds Bank Foundation
@lbfew.bsky.social
We partner with small and local charities, people, and communities working towards a more just and compassionate society.
1/ We’ve just awarded £ 6.2 million in unrestricted funding for 83 #SmallButVital charities in England and Wales! These charities are helping people to rebuild their lives after experiencing homelessness, abuse, persecution, and trauma. Like Revival – Wiltshire Rape and Sexual abuse centre 👇
We’re delighted to announce that @lbfew.bsky.social are supporting #People&Homes2025 as headline sponsor. Working together, we are committed to bringing together a range of voices and experiences to identify the solutions needed to end the housing emergency in Wales.
Last chance to apply for funding under our racial equity programme, which closes TOMORROW. Send through your applications by 5pm to be considered for a grant of £75,000 over three years alongside tailored development support www.lloydsbankfoundation.org.uk/funding/raci...
Apply for funding under the racial equity programme
This programme is for small charities and CIOs led by and working with people are experiencing economic inequity because of their race or ethnicity. Eligible charities can apply for funding of £75,000...
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#SmallButVital charities matter. Research and evidence help us champion them by showing what is happening, indicating solutions and identifying best practices. That is why we invest in building the evidence base for their distinctive role and value. Learn more: ow.ly/kFvw50T4bbt
Championing Small Charities
We’re investing in new approaches, campaigns and research to influence and improve policy and practice for people affected by domestic and sexual abuse and the specialist charities working with them
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‼️ CLOSING NEXT WEEK! Deadline: 5pm, 29 May. Don't miss the opportunity to send through your application for an unrestricted grant of £75,000 for three years under our racial equity programme! www.lloydsbankfoundation.org.uk/funding/raci...
Apply for funding under the racial equity programme
This programme is for small charities and CIOs led by and working with people are experiencing economic inequity because of their race or ethnicity. Eligible charities can apply for funding of £75,000...
lloydsbankfoundation.org.uk
Can development support enable #SmallButVital charities to build sustainable income streams? The answer is yes. Find out how small #DomesticAbuse charity Reducing the Risk did just that. bit.ly/44IAc3C
Charity story: Reducing the Risk
Find out how how support from the Foundation has enabled small charity Reducing the Risk to monetise and franchise their domestic abuse awareness training, boosting their reach and income.
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A new report from our charity partner highlights the widespread failure of local authorities across the UK to provide safe, legal and accessible transit sites for Gypsy and Traveller communities: www.gypsy-traveller.org/news/new-sum...
New Summary Report: FOI reveals devastating lack of transit site provision - Friends, Families and Travellers
Today, a new summary report from Friends, Families and Travellers (FFT) highlights the widespread failure of local authorities across the UK to provide safe, legal and accessible transit sites for Gyp...
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As a learning organisation, we are keen to continue working in partnership with the deaf and disabled-led small charities and incorporating lived experience within our grant-making process. Read more in our blog www.lloydsbankfoundation.org.uk/our-impact/n...
What we’ve learned so far from funding Deaf and Disabled people’s organisations
Richard Paynter, Head of Grants (South) at Lloyds Bank Foundation, shares the lessons we have learned since we started our programme for Deaf and Disabled People and the changes we have made to make i...
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We are currently investing in 12 #SmallButVital Deaf charities in England and Wales, totalling £900,000 in funding! #DeafAwarenessWeek
In 2015, we launched a Trading and Sustainability programme. m2 have carried out an evaluation into the programme. ✅89% agreed that the programme enabled an entrepreneurial mindset ✅66% agreed that they were better placed to measure their organisational income Read it in full bit.ly/4izpTC7
Read an evaluation of our trading and sustainability programme
Since 2015, we have run a Trading and Sustainability programme for charity leaders in partnership with the School of Social Entrepreneurs. This independent evaluation shares key findings on how the co...
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🔍 A little factoid for our 40th anniversary. We offered our first-ever iteration of capacity-building support back in 1992! And now? In 2024, we connected: 🤝 361 Lloyds Banking Group colleagues shared their skills with charities. 💬 265 volunteers joined 49 charity forums.
We commissioned research by @thinknpc.bsky.social to help identify the challenges facing voluntary sector organisations working in the criminal justice system and how funders can work better together to support them. Read the report: www.lloydsbankfoundation.org.uk/influencing/...
Funding into the criminal justice voluntary sector
This report explores funding flows into the criminal justice voluntary sector and offers recommendations for philanthropic and statutory funders’ priorities and processes.
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"The freedom of the grant being unrestricted has been really helpful as well. Being trusted that we know best is really refreshing." Since 2020, all our grants through our main programmes have been unrestricted. Read how this has supported sustainability at Hope and Vision ow.ly/lNBV50VHCb8
Hope and Vision Communities
Hope and Vision Communities provides accommodation and ongoing support for people that have completed residential treatment for addiction. Founder Tony Attwood spoke to us about how he set up Hope and...
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Don't miss the chance to send through your application for £100,000 funding for your local collaboration. Deadline is 5pm 30 April. 📢ONE DAY TO GO! bit.ly/41ae8eI
Apply for funding under our local collaborations programme.
Under this programme, we will support collaborations led by small charities seeking to influence and achieve local or regional change. Eligible collaborations can apply to a grant of £100,000 over two...
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❓ If you could create a total system change in your community, how would you do it? For one, changing systems takes time. New blog and learning product sharing our lessons from our evaluation of our work in six communities across England and Wales bit.ly/4cNMwl4
Lessons from our work in communities: changing the system takes time and getting the balance right
We reflect on two of the lessons from our work with people and communities: changing the system takes time, and balancing shape, pace, power and certainty.
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Development opportunities can often be unaffordable for a small charity. This is where skills based volunteering can help. Through our partnership with Lloyds Banking Group, we match up charities with volunteers for free. Watch how this benefited one charity leader youtu.be/vEHlCb0Kj6w?...
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National Minimum Wage rates increased this month! Ensure your payroll systems are updated for all age brackets✅ Need help understanding these changes? Our HR consultants can support and guide you on your compliance journey, get in touch: www.rootshr.org.uk/contact-root...
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Disability benefit cuts won’t just impact disabled people and their families; they will also seriously hamper the government’s ability to deliver on its own central mission... Read our full blog👀 z2k.org/mission-crit...
Mission critical: How disability benefit cuts threaten to jeopardise the government’s missions - Z2K
The government has set out five key missions which it sees as key to showing the British public that it is delivering on their priorities. Our Senior Policy Adviser explains how cuts to disability ben...
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Charities must “rethink traditional approaches and embrace new models of operations” over the next year, the National Council for Voluntary Organisations has warned
Charities must ‘rethink traditional approaches’ over the next year, NCVO warns
The membership body’s latest Road Ahead report examines how charities can navigate oncoming challenges
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Ministers must seize the opportunity of DWP’s review of #UniversalCredit in the coming months to resolve the ongoing flaws in its operation and properly address the inadequacy of its basic Standard Allowance. @policyinpractice.bsky.social policyinpractice.co.uk/blog/new-ana...
New analysis: Deductions and sanctions for people on Universal Credit | Policy in Practice
New analysis reveals how deductions and sanctions in Universal Credit deepen hardship, reducing real support for low income households.
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The power of local collaborations 💪 Read our blog to find out how #SmallButVital Quetzal and other charities are driving meaningful change through local partnerships. Have a similar idea? Our funding for local collaborations closes on 30 April. www.lloydsbankfoundation.org.uk/our-impact/n...
How local collaborations led by small charities are influencing change
Deborah Knight, CEO of Quetzal, shares how they are partnering with other local organisations to improve the social security system for people who have experienced trauma and the experience of being p...
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Check out our new #HomelessnessMonitorWales 2025. Research with I-SPHERE at @heriotwattuni.bsky.social shows governments must take bold action if we are to turn the tide on the rising numbers of people experiencing homelessness in Wales. www.crisis.org.uk/Homelessness...
Influencing policy can be a great way for charities to deliver social change.Trustees need to know how to support this. Our event will discuss 🌟 Opportunities & challenges 🌟 Legal & regulatory landscape for #influencing 🌟 Working with a government nationally/locally: www.thinknpc.org/events-and-t...
Charity leaders are operating in the “most uncertain and challenging time”, with some facing burnout and leaving the sector, a @stonekingllp.bsky.social event heard yesterday from leaders of NCVO, Age UK, @tnlcomfund.bsky.social, @lbfew.bsky.social and @neweconomics.bsky.social
‘Most uncertain and challenging time’ to be a charity leader, event hears
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It's so great to read how our funding has supported #SmallButVital P.H.O.E.B.E to expand its services and purchase a second building, boosting the charity’s ability to offer safe refuge and 'essential support services' to Black and minoritised women! www.eadt.co.uk/news/2505374...
Charity expands refuge services for domestic abuse victims
A charity has expanded its refuge services for domestic abuse victims with a new property in Ipswich.
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We are pleased to be partnering with Emmaus UK in its efforts to ensure the effective implementation of the Supported Housing Act. Part of their work is incorporating lived experience so their testimony is heard and informs the new standards. www.lloydsbankfoundation.org.uk/our-impact/n...
Shaping the Supported Housing Act through lived experience
Emmaus is working with people with lived experience of supported housing to help shape the new Supported Housing Act.
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We are hosting our racial equity pre-application webinar tomorrow. Sign up for your free place here. Already signed up? You can find all supporting documents and guidance over on our website to have on hand when joining us. www.lloydsbankfoundation.org.uk/funding/raci...
Apply for funding under the racial equity programme
This programme is for small charities and CIOs led by and working with people are experiencing economic inequity because of their race or ethnicity. Eligible charities can apply for funding of £75,000...
lloydsbankfoundation.org.uk
Third Sector will offer 15 randomly selected organisations the chance to enter one of 13 categories in a scheme that exists to spotlight the successes of small, micro, local and ethnic minority-led charities
Deadline extended for small charities to apply for free entry to the Third Sector Awards
Eligible organisations have until Tuesday 8 April to put their names forward
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Great to bring together our #SmallButVital partner Family Help Darlington and Darlington MP @lolamcevoymp.bsky.social to hear about their services to support domestic and economic abuse survivors. They were also joined by Lloyds Banking Group's Emily Cox and Sarah Legg, who is our trustee!
