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Keep up with the latest news affecting small and local charities and views from our expert teams and partners.

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Lessons learnt from Changing Lives, Changing Systems report in partnership with Social Finance

10 November 2020

On 4th November, we shared our learnings from the latest report by Social Finance and Lloyds Bank Foundation, Changing Lives, Changing Systems: Lessons from Reducing and Preventing Domestic Abuse.

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Man writes report

Organisational Resilience: The story so far...

06 November 2020

As part of our work to help small charities survive and thrive, we launched an organisational resilience programme in 2019. Read our findings so far

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How do you fix a broken system?

02 November 2020

New report sets out 12 lessons for successful systems change from impactful domestic abuse perpetrator programme

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Research calls for local areas – not DWP – to run employment support

27 October 2020

The COVID pandemic has led to hundreds of thousands of people falling out of work, and millions more facing uncertainty about their jobs in the coming months.

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Harriet Stranks, Director of Grants at Lloyds Bank Foundation

An update on our Covid-19 support

27 May 2020

We’ve made some changes to our grant programme over the last couple of months and some explanation of the changes and thoughts about how we move forward would be useful.

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LocalMotion Director of Collaboration Kathleen Kelly

Kathleen Kelly appointed Director of Collaboration to lead new place-based initiative LocalMotion

01 November 2019

Kathleen Kelly appointed Director of Collaboration to lead new place-based initiative LocalMotion

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Research & Learning Manager for Lloyds Bank Foundation Alex Van Vliet

‘Grantmakers need to be flexible to better support small and local charities’

04 September 2019

‘Grantmakers need to be flexible to better support small and local charities’

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Lloyds Bank Foundation and Social Enterprise UK call for public bodies to rethink how they use Social Value

24 May 2019

A new report by Social Enterprise UK, co-funded by Lloyds Bank Foundation, calls for a rethink on how public bodies use social value, urging it to be placed front and centre of how local and...

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Lloyds Bank Foundation fund new partnership to help voluntary and charitable groups in the Wirral

07 January 2019

Lloyds Bank Foundation fund new partnership to help voluntary and charitable groups in the Wirral

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Lloyds Bank Foundation celebrates the value of small charities in the North and explores findings of small charity research

07 December 2018

Lloyds Bank Foundation celebrates the value of small charities in the North and explores findings of small charity research

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