We are championing the value of small charities nationally, regionally and locally, using research and the evidence we gather from those we work with
This report, commissioned by Lloyds Banking Group and its four charitable Foundations to mark 40 years of supporting communities across the UK and Channel Islands, seeks to better understand the role small charities play in supporting financially vulnerable people and how we can strengthen that support.
This research report explores funding flows into the criminal justice voluntary sector and offers recommendations for philanthropic and statutory funders’ priorities and processes.
Read our evaluation of the Trading and Sustainability programme, which was delivered by the School for Social Entrepreneurs (SSE).
This report produced by The Future Governance Forum in partnership with NPC, and supported by us, sets out how Government and civil society can work as equal partners, shaping and delivering national missions together.
We worked on this evaluation and learning relating to the homelessness sector to help understand the value of our support to small and local charities, people and communities. We have produced a report which outlines the breadth of work in this area across people, charities, communities and society.
This guide, produced by NCVO and Local Government Association and supported by us, aims to ensure everyone involved in the commissioning process implement better practices, and seeks to promote principled values-based commissioning that achieves good value for money and better outcomes for people and communities.
This document captures the views of 59 small and local charities supported by Lloyds Bank Foundation for England and Wales, compiled from monitoring reports completed between April and June 2024, as well as the main trends that come through.
This report by NAVCA and Lloyds Bank Foundation for England and Wales examines how section 114 notices work in practice, describes the changes they bring to the local operating environment, provides guidance for VCSE groups and makes policy recommendations.
This report shares our learning from a decade of delivering skilled volunteering programmes so that other organisations can take up skills based volunteering, be it volunteers, employers or charities.
This report summarises learnings from three years of working with communities across England and Wales. It highlights crucial lessons on new ways of designing and resourcing local services to provide sustainable support for people facing complex issues such as homelessness, addiction and domestic abuse.
