Lloyds Bank Foundation
We partner with small and local charities across England and Wales, helping people overcome complex social issues. We’re an independent charitable trust funded by the profits of Lloyds Banking Group.
Who We Are
Through core cost funding, developmental support and influencing policy and practice, we help make charities make life-changing impact.
We work in partnership with the charities we fund and others who share our vision. We listen, understand and respond to charities, through funding and providing developmental support we help them grow stronger and more sustainable. We influence policy and practice to help charities thrive in the future and to address the root causes and consequences of complex social issues.
Small charities responding to COVID-19:
Summer 2021 update
This report builds on the previous two 'Small charities responding to COVID-19' reports, published in May and December 2020. In it, we share how 401 small and local charities we support have fared as they emerged from the peak of the crisis in the winter and the third national lockdown.
The Value of Small in a Big Crisis
This report follows on from our 2018 Value of Small research. In it, we see small and local charities’ distinctiveness in who they support, how they carry out their work, and the role they play in their communities makes them best placed to respond to this crisis. Find out more and read the full report.
Small Charities Data
Small Charities Data is a digital research hub that brings together the latest and best available data on small charities in the UK. Visit the website here to explore the latest and best available data on small charities. Read about the launch of the hub here.
Our 2020 Impact Report
In 2020, despite the odds stacked against them, small and local charities showed up and stuck around, using their position of trust to support those hardest hit by the pandemic. Throughout the year we stood by their side and became more flexible, responsive, and vocal. Read our impact in 2020.
Complex Social Issues
We partner with small and local charities helping people overcome complex social issues such as homelessness, trafficking and modern slavery and domestic abuse.
More than just funders
Small charities’ size and understanding of the people and local communities means they’re able to make life-changing impact where others can’t. But they are under-funded, under pressure and too often ignored. That’s why we’re more than just a funder — we work in partnership with the charities we fund and others who share our vision.
March 2020 onward has been a complete rollercoaster of a year with many up and downs. We have changed the service numerous times to try and balance meeting the needs of the people we support without putting them at more risk and keeping the staff as safe as possible. We have conducted street outreach, work in hotels, booked office appointments, home visits and phone appointments - phones funded by Lloyds, thank you! The Pathways team have been extremely resilient and kept adapting. I am very proud.
Pathways of Chesterfield
Life-changing impact
We support over 700 small and local charities across England and Wales. Find out more about how they’re helping people overcome complex social issues and rebuild their lives.
I don’t know what I would’ve done without Bath City Farm. I have no family and when I first came I felt like I’d landed at an airport full of friendly strangers. Now, they’re like a new family. We’re all different but share a similar positive attitude. I’ve done lots of courses here and spend a lot of time gardening. I love it.
Russell from Bath City Farm, a charity supported by Lloyds Bank Foundation
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