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Lloyds Bank Foundation @lbfew.bsky.social · Jun 4

3/ For 40 years, we've walked side by side small charities tackling society’s toughest challenges. We're committed to ensuring they have the resources to continue transforming lives and fighting inequity.

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Lloyds Bank Foundation @lbfew.bsky.social · Jun 4

2/ “This funding provides the stability and flexibility to meet growing demand, invest in our team, and deliver trauma-informed care that truly meets the needs of those we support. It reflects a shared belief in survivors’ right to be heard and fully supported in their journey towards healing.”

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Lloyds Bank Foundation @lbfew.bsky.social · Jun 4

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 👇

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Shelter Cymru @sheltercymru.bsky.social · May 28

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.

“For 40 years, Lloyds Bank Foundation has partnered with charities and communities across Wales on some of the most challenging issues people face. As we look ahead to our future and to a new Senedd, it is more important now than ever to work collaboratively and inclusively to ensure that everyone across the nation has a say about issues affecting them. And that everyone in Wales can live well in a safe and secure home of their own. We are pleased to support Shelter Cymru with this year’s People & Homes Conference, with people at the heart of it.”
Matt Hyde – CEO, Lloyds Bank Foundation

"We are delighted to have Lloyds Bank Foundation supporting People & Homes 2025 as our headline sponsor.
Working with The Foundation we are committed to ensuring that People & Homes once again brings together a range of voices from across Wales to discuss the challenges we face in housing and homelessness – and work together to find solutions. A key part of this is ensuring that People & Homes is as accessible as possible, and that communities, organisations, and individuals from a range of experiences and backgrounds are supported to attend and contribute.
As an organisation working in partnership with small and local charities, people and communities across Wales, Lloyds Bank Foundation are the perfect partner to help us achieve this."
Ruth Power – CEO, Shelter Cymru

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Lloyds Bank Foundation @lbfew.bsky.social · May 28

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...

www.lloydsbankfoundation.org.uk

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Lloyds Bank Foundation @lbfew.bsky.social · May 22

#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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Lloyds Bank Foundation @lbfew.bsky.social · May 21

‼️ 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...

www.lloydsbankfoundation.org.uk

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Lloyds Bank Foundation @lbfew.bsky.social · May 16

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.
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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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Lloyds Bank Foundation @lbfew.bsky.social · May 9

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...

www.gypsy-traveller.org

Lloyds Bank Foundation @lbfew.bsky.social · May 8

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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Lloyds Bank Foundation @lbfew.bsky.social · May 7

We are currently investing in 12 #SmallButVital Deaf charities in England and Wales, totalling £900,000 in funding! #DeafAwarenessWeek

Lloyds Bank Foundation @lbfew.bsky.social · May 2

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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Lloyds Bank Foundation @lbfew.bsky.social · May 1

Head to the link to read some of the stories sharing the impact of skills based volunteering on both volunteers as well as the charity staff supported by them:

www.lloydsbankfoundation.org.uk/our-impact/c...

Charity stories

Learn more about the areas of work and the charities we support.

www.lloydsbankfoundation.org.uk

Lloyds Bank Foundation @lbfew.bsky.social · May 1

🔍 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.

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Lloyds Bank Foundation @lbfew.bsky.social · Apr 30

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.

www.lloydsbankfoundation.org.uk

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Lloyds Bank Foundation @lbfew.bsky.social · Apr 29

"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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Lloyds Bank Foundation @lbfew.bsky.social · Apr 29

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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Lloyds Bank Foundation @lbfew.bsky.social · Apr 24

❓ 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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Lloyds Bank Foundation @lbfew.bsky.social · Apr 24

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?...

Lloyds Bank Foundation Skills Based Volunteering - Halaleh

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Roots HR CIC @rootshr.bsky.social · Apr 22

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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Lloyds Bank Foundation @lbfew.bsky.social · Apr 17

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Z2K (Zacchaeus 2000 Trust) @z2ktrust.bsky.social · Apr 17

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👀

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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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Third Sector @thirdsector.co.uk · Apr 17

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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Lloyds Bank Foundation @lbfew.bsky.social · Apr 15

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.

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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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Lloyds Bank Foundation @lbfew.bsky.social · Apr 10

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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