We provide a range of developmental support, including training, consultancy and mentoring alongside our funding to help strengthen charities. Our regional managers build relationships with charities to help them identify challenges and work with partner organisations to deliver solutions. Our support builds confidence and expertise among charity leaders, helping them thrive far beyond the life of their grant and equipping them to be stronger and more sustainable.
charities matched with a Lloyds Banking Group Charity Mentor
developmental support delivered to small charities in 2019
local charity learning networks established
Having Enhance support from Lloyds Bank Foundation was my first experience of ‘funder plus’ support. What’s so impressive about Enhance is you feel like you’re receiving high calibre, quality expertise at a 1:1 local level. You’re provided with options and then given ownership over the relationship with the consultant, but equally, I know I have Peter’s [our Foundation Manager] support if it’s not hitting the mark.
Our Enhance programme provides a range of tailored developmental support in addition to their grant to help the charities we fund to be more effective and thrive. In conversation with our Regional Managers we will help you identify areas where the Foundation might be able to offer support.
Our role and responsibility as a funder extends beyond the charities we support directly through funding and capacity building. We want to strengthen everyone who is involved in delivering services – so small and local charities but also those that support and fund them.
We provide networking opportunities to our partner charities through local peer forums across England and Wales. These forums enable small charity leaders to share learning and knowledge while establishing a support network of individuals facing similar work-based challenges within the charity sector.
We offer a range of online toolkits, developed in partnership with Lloyds Banking Group and our experts, to provide practical support and help small charities learn from best practice.
We are working with five other national funders to see how best we can work together to potentially achieve more.
