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New fund to benefit Deaf and Disabled People’s Organisations launched by Lloyds Bank Foundation

07 June 2023

This year, 40 eligible charities will receive an unrestricted grant of £75,000 over three years

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New £1.8 million grant fund to influence national policy launches

16 March 2023

Charitable organisations seeking to influence and achieve change in national policy and practice in relation to accommodation, social security and refugees and asylum seekers can apply for funding

Applications open: Lloyds Bank Foundation gives £5.5m to small specialist charities

29 November 2022

Specialist charities with an annual income between £25,000 and £500,000 can apply for a three-year, unrestricted grant of up to £75,000

Questions and answers from our learning from our practice event

12 October 2022

On 3rd October 2022 we hosted an event to share our learning from the last five years of our funding practice. We received some great questions from the audience at this event which we've answered

Press release: Lloyds Bank Foundation launches new strategy

06 October 2022

The Foundation pledges half of its core funding to charities led by Black, Asian and minority ethnic and disabled communities

Why we support charities working with refugees and asylum seekers

27 July 2022

As is the case across the range of issues we fund, people seeking asylum or those who have been granted refugee status face significant challenges in our society that impact their life chances.

Research & Learning Manager for Lloyds Bank Foundation Alex Van Vliet

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.

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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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.

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.