News and blogs
Keep up with the latest news affecting small and local charities and views from our expert teams and partners.
Selected articles
Learning from our COVID Recovery Fund
27 July 2021
How we set out to design and build an evaluation learning framework for the Covid Recovery Fund.
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Turning practice into policy
15 July 2021
Turning practice into policy: getting a local refugee charity more involved in advocacy
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How to be wrong
05 May 2021
Nobody sets out to be wrong. But it's impossible to avoid error. And mistakes have value. We learn from them, perhaps more than we learn from what we get right.
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Lloyds Bank Foundation opens its Racial Equity funding for charities led by and for Black, Asian, and minority ethnic communities
15 April 2021
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COVID: One Year On - The Young Women's Outreach Project
23 March 2021
One year since the first lockdown, Manager Neil gives an account of local charity, The Young Women's Project, and their journey to adapting their services to support young women in the community.
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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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Census: It counts to be counted
02 March 2021
With many asked to complete The Census online, how many will be counted? And why does it matter?
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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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