News and blogs
Keep up with the latest news affecting small and local charities and views from our expert teams and partners.
Selected articles
Applications open: £3m available to charities led by and working with people experiencing economic inequity because of their race or ethnicity
03 April 2024
Registered charities and CICs led by and working with people experiencing economic inequity because of their race or ethnicity are invited to apply for grants of £75,000
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Scouts CEO Matt Hyde OBE to become new Lloyds Bank Foundation CEO
22 March 2024
Matt Hyde will join Lloyds Bank Foundation for England and Wales as their next CEO
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Redefining the narrative on compassion in an election year
09 February 2024
As a sector, we need to act together if we are to work towards a national narrative that puts compassion before self-interest, which is surely what our sector is all about.
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Sharing power: Learnings from a participatory approach to funding
08 December 2023
Read about what we learned and how we hope to continue to develop a more participatory approach to funding.
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Lloyds Bank Foundation awards £2.4m to charities influencing and improving national policy and practice
30 November 2023
Funding of £2.4 million to support 18 projects focused on influencing and improving national policy and practice in social security, support for refugees and asylum seekers and housing.
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The quiet tenacity of small charities
29 November 2023
Paul Streets visited addiction charity High Level (Northern) Trust where he meet staff and the people they support that showed how small charities are filling the gaps when society fails to provide.
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Hope and optimism in Great Yarmouth
16 October 2023
Our Chief Executive, Paul Streets, recently visited the town and saw some of the community-led solutions to homelessness.
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Universal Credit Deductions at the Work and Pensions Committee
14 September 2023
Duncan Shrubsole, our Director of Policy, Communications and Research, talks about Universal Credit deductions at Work and Pensions Committee oral evidence session
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Our approach to designing the Deaf and Disabled People's Organisations funding programme
19 July 2023
We discuss co-designing our d/Deaf and Disabled People's Organisation programme and changes we have made to our approach to funding
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£1.5m collaboration funding programme launched to support impactful change locally
05 July 2023
This funding programme will support local collaborations around three key issues: social security system, access to suitable accommodation, and support for asylum seekers and refugees.
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