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Our research

We are championing the value of small charities nationally, regionally and locally, using research and the evidence we gather from those we work with

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Mission Critical 3

  • January 2025
  • Research
  • Systems Change
  • Influencing

This report produced by The Future Governance Forum in partnership with NPC, and supported by us, sets out how Government and civil society can work as equal partners, shaping and delivering national missions together.

Our support on the homelessness charity sector

  • November 2024
  • Research
  • Evaluations

We worked on this evaluation and learning relating to the homelessness sector to help understand the value of our support to small and local charities, people and communities. We have produced a report which outlines the breadth of work in this area across people, charities, communities and society.

Purposeful collaboration

  • November 2024
  • Research
  • Influencing
  • Good Practice Guides

This guide, produced by NCVO and Local Government Association and supported by us, aims to ensure everyone involved in the commissioning process implement better practices, and seeks to promote principled values-based commissioning that achieves good value for money and better outcomes for people and communities. 

Navigating a section 114 notice

  • October 2024
  • Research
  • Good Practice Guides
  • Influencing

This report by NAVCA and Lloyds Bank Foundation for England and Wales examines how section 114 notices work in practice, describes the changes they bring to the local operating environment, provides guidance for VCSE groups and makes policy recommendations.

Skills Based Volunteering: A Win, Win, Win

  • June 2024
  • Social Value
  • Evaluations
  • Capacity Building

This report shares our learning from a decade of delivering skilled volunteering programmes so that other organisations can take up skills based volunteering, be it volunteers, employers or charities.

Learning From The First Three Years Of Working With Communities

  • November 2023
  • Systems Change
  • Evaluations
  • Good Practice Guides

This report summarises learnings from three years of working with communities across England and Wales. It highlights crucial lessons on new ways of designing and resourcing local services to provide sustainable support for people facing complex issues such as homelessness, addiction and domestic abuse. 

Lessons for Funder Practice

  • October 2022
  • Research
  • Evaluations
  • Good Practice Guides

This report sets out eight lessons in funder practice from the work of Lloyds Bank Foundation for England and Wales from 2018 to 2022. During the five years of our strategy 'Reaching Further', the collision of unprecedented social, health and economic crises brought both the strength and fragility of civil society into sharp focus - funders and frontline charities alike. We want to highlight th...

360 Giving

  • August 2022
  • Data

We are working with 360Giving to make data about our grant-making freely accessible.

Deductions Driver of Poverty

  • May 2022
  • Research
  • Frontline Services

The case for reform of deductions from Universal Credit payments