News and blogs
Keep up with the latest news affecting small and local charities and views from our expert teams and partners.
Selected articles
Our approach to ringfencing a minimum of 25% of our funding for Black, Asian and minority ethnic communities
15 March 2021
Read more about how we are committed to ensuring that our funding portfolio is both distributed equitably and helps to address the needs of communities across England and Wales.
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Our Experience of Participatory Grant Making in the COVID Recovery Fund
11 February 2021
To avoid changing the nature of the relationships we built we turned to participatory grant making as a way to share the power and shift decisions to a wider group who understood their community.
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Our Infrastructure Programme
22 January 2021
Infrastructure is important at the best of times, but the crisis has cemented the role of infrastructure organisations in making sure charities can continue to support people who need them
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Lloyds Bank Foundation awards £450,000 in grants to infrastructure charities to support a strong local ecosystem
21 January 2021
Lloyds Bank Foundation awards £450,000 in grants to infrastructure charities to support a strong local ecosystem
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Lloyds Bank Foundation awards Covid recovery grants to vital but under-resourced and small charities led Black, Asian and minority ethnic communities
21 January 2021
Lloyds Bank Foundation awards Covid recovery grants to vital but under-resourced and small charities led Black, Asian and minority ethnic communities
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Lloyds Bank Foundation launch new national Infrastructure Fund
24 August 2020
Lloyds Bank For England and Wales launch their new Infrastructure Fund. Here, Caroline Howe, Policy and National Programme Manager, discusses the approach and thinking behind the fund.
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Paul Streets: Our thinking and approach during COVID-19
30 July 2020
Ahead of the launch of the new COVID Recovery Fund, Paul Street explain the ways the Foundation has been rethinking and adapting our support and approach to funding.
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Lloyds Bank Foundation New Fund
27 July 2020
Small and local charities helping people overcome complex social issues can now apply for two-year unrestricted grants of £50,000 with dedicated organisational development support.
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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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Transform: How one charity was helped to innovate and improve to create change in the domestic and sexual abuse sector
06 March 2020
Romy Briant is chair of Reducing the Risk. Here she writes how the Transform programme helped to boost her charity and enable them to influence policy and practice
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