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Keep up with the latest news affecting small and local charities and views from our expert teams and partners.

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Women at charity Mojatu Foundation

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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Matt Hyde CEO

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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How we are supporting Disabled and neurodivergent people in the workplace

20 March 2024

Gemma Goymer, Head of HR, shares what we have done to become a more inclusive and accessible workplace for Disabled and neurodivergent people.

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A group of women enjoying each others company at charity Mojatu Foundation

Celebrating women supporting women

08 March 2024

On International Women’s Day we want to celebrate some of our women-led charity partners and the women that they are supporting to recover from abuse and rebuild their lives. #IWD2024

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International Women’s Day: Inspiring Inclusion in the workplace

05 March 2024

As part of International Women’s Day, Gemma Goymer, Head of HR at Lloyds Bank Foundation, shares what we have been doing to become a more inclusive organisation and how this has benefitted women.

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Paul Streets, CEO Lloyds Bank Foundation

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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How the Charity Excellence Framework can help small charities

How the Charity Excellence Framework can help small charities

01 February 2024

To help small charities develop, we piloted the use of the Charity Excellence Framework (CEF) to help charities identify areas they want to prioritise so that we can find the right support for them.

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Introducing our new Advisory Group for our research project into by-and-for organisations

10 January 2024

We have now recruited a diverse and knowledgeable Advisory Group who will be integral to the project and help us guide and shape the research on by-and-for organisations.

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Photo of a group of people from a community (photo courtesy of the Bevan Foundation)

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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Paul Streets, CEO Lloyds Bank Foundation

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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