Our impact

Between 2014 and 2025, we made nearly 3,000 grants to 1,800 charities. Through a combination of organisational development and capacity building, and flexible funding over multiple years, we helped these organisations turbocharge their growth, create new jobs, and become more resilient. 

Read the new, independent, first-of-its-kind research on how we make a difference to community organisations here.

The impact of our investments in communities

Our community partners help more people say “I’m in a good place personally”

Throughout 2025, we backed people and communities to drive change that meant more people could say “I’m in a good place personally” – with a focus on financial resilience. Our partners helped people with:

o   Money and budgeting skills – running budgeting workshops, reducing debt, and building people’s confidence handling money.

o   Crisis support – providing food and essentials, emergency vouchers, and negotiating energy bills.

o   Putting money directly into people’s pockets – helping people access the benefits they’re entitled to, navigate online systems, apply for grants, and find work.

Our community partners help more people say “I’m in a home that’s a good place to live”

Throughout 2025, we backed people and communities to drive change that meant more people could say “I’m in a home that’s a good place to live” – with a focus on preventing homelessness and making new homes available. Our partners:

o   Prevented homelessness – helping evictions be avoided, and getting people access to money and bank accounts.

o   Supplied crisis support – providing food and essentials, community, support workers, day centres, and access to health services.

o   Took on new homes – ensuring people can access the kind of housing they need, with the support wrapped around it so they can stay.

Our community partners help more people say “I’m in a community that’s a good place to belong to”

Throughout 2025, we backed people and communities to drive change that meant more people could say “I’m in a community that’s a good place to belong to” – with a focus on bridging divides. Our partners helped people with:

o   Removing the barriers to belonging – re-designing the systems that keep people excluded, and providing the practical support that means people can take part in community life.

o   Contribution and voice – empowering people to lead and be listened to, shaping how communities work.

o   Rituals that build belonging – bringing people from different backgrounds together, through meals, walks, classes, gardens, crafts and exercise.

Boosting giving of time and money

Where we’ve combined forces with Lloyds Banking Group over deeply shared goals, brilliant things have happened. In 2025:

• More leaders in communities and leaders in the Group have tested ideas, solved problems, and improved lives together than ever before. That’s because we grew our Skills Based Volunteering Programme by 40%, adding 340 new volunteers to help a total of 131 community organisations build long-term resilience.
• 29 charities received a share of £2.6m to help Deaf and Disabled people with their financial resilience. That’s because the Group recognised the vital role played by the local organisations people trust to provide the help that prevents them reaching crisis, and donated an additional £1.4m to us as part of our 40^th anniversary.
• Lloyds Banking Group colleagues’ fundraising and volunteering efforts received a £1.9m boost that reached 1,419 charities across 84% of parliamentary constituencies in England and Wales. That’s because our Match Giving scheme -which harnesses the powerful incentive of match funding to drive giving – increased uptake again in 2025.

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