Funding

Everyone in England and Wales should be in a good place – personally, in a home that’s a good place to live and a community that’s a good place to belong to.

We invest in the people who are furthest from being in a good place, and the people who do the work to change that. When we invest in a people or organisations in communities, we build organisations’ capacity and capability to drive change within communities everywhere across England and Wales, by providing resources: money, time, tools and connections.

Because communities are full of ambitious, energetic and determined people stepping up to make their neighbours’ lives better and their communities grow stronger. And when you back brilliant people, brilliant things happen.

How we’re investing in communities in 2026

Lloyds Bank Foundation is changing – scaling up to meet the moment in our society. But we are determined to make sure that our transformation process doesn’t hold up the flow of investment into communities. So this year, we’re taking a mixed approach to our investments:

• Our next open funding round will launch in July 2026, and will be focused on having a Home that’s a Good Place to Live. This will be a significant, multi-million pound funding programme.
• To ensure we’re investing in the organisations supporting people who are furthest from a good place, we’re offering £2 million of extension funding to a number of current community partners in our Racial Equity and Deaf and Disabled People’s Organisation programmes, whose grants would otherwise be coming to an end. Eligible organisations have been contacted directly.
• We’re making some strategic grants to help us experiment and learn around community belonging and volunteering. Eligible organisations will be contacted directly.
• To take our next step towards powering change in 100 local places, in the Autumn we’ll set out our Starting Point communities in two regions of England and Wales where we’ll be assessing if we can make a difference to how things work.
• Further funding rounds focused on a Community that’s a Good Place to live will follow afterwards.

How we choose where, how and who to invest in

We begin with people and communities who are furthest from being in a good place. But we never view communities only through what they lack. We pay attention to strengths, leadership and potential too. Seeing communities in the round allows us to design programmes that meet real needs and build on local power.

And we work with others to develop our approach to community-led change. This means actively inviting a wide range of perspectives into our thinking and our way of working. It also means using high-quality data and a wealth of research to inform us. We’ve done this throughout the development of our In a Good Place strategy, do so funding programme by funding programme, and share our thinking openly, as well as the evidence we've used.