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We partner with small and local charities, people, and communities working towards a more just and compassionate society.

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Lloyds Bank Foundation @lbfew.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
1/ We’ve just awarded £ 6.2 million in unrestricted funding for 83 #SmallButVital charities in England and Wales! These charities are helping people to rebuild their lives after experiencing homelessness, abuse, persecution, and trauma. Like Revival – Wiltshire Rape and Sexual abuse centre 👇
Top right is an image from a charity we are funding. She is holding a mic. Text overlay reads "We've just awarded £6.2m to 83 small charities across England and Wales
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Shelter Cymru @sheltercymru.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
We’re delighted to announce that @lbfew.bsky.social are supporting #People&Homes2025 as headline sponsor. Working together, we are committed to bringing together a range of voices and experiences to identify the solutions needed to end the housing emergency in Wales.
“For 40 years, Lloyds Bank Foundation has partnered with charities and communities across Wales on some of the most challenging issues people face. As we look ahead to our future and to a new Senedd, it is more important now than ever to work collaboratively and inclusively to ensure that everyone across the nation has a say about issues affecting them. And that everyone in Wales can live well in a safe and secure home of their own. We are pleased to support Shelter Cymru with this year’s People & Homes Conference, with people at the heart of it.”
Matt Hyde – CEO, Lloyds Bank Foundation "We are delighted to have Lloyds Bank Foundation supporting People & Homes 2025 as our headline sponsor.
Working with The Foundation we are committed to ensuring that People & Homes once again brings together a range of voices from across Wales to discuss the challenges we face in housing and homelessness  – and work together to find solutions. A key part of this is ensuring that People & Homes is as accessible as possible, and that communities, organisations, and individuals from a range of experiences and backgrounds are supported to attend and contribute. 
As an organisation working in partnership with small and local charities, people and communities across Wales, Lloyds Bank Foundation are the perfect partner to help us achieve this."  
Ruth Power – CEO, Shelter Cymru
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Lloyds Bank Foundation @lbfew.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Last chance to apply for funding under our racial equity programme, which closes TOMORROW. Send through your applications by 5pm to be considered for a grant of £75,000 over three years alongside tailored development support www.lloydsbankfoundation.org.uk/funding/raci...
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Apply for funding under the racial equity programme
This programme is for small charities and CIOs led by and working with people are experiencing economic inequity because of their race or ethnicity. Eligible charities can apply for funding of £75,000...
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Lloyds Bank Foundation @lbfew.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
#SmallButVital charities matter. Research and evidence help us champion them by showing what is happening, indicating solutions and identifying best practices. That is why we invest in building the evidence base for their distinctive role and value. Learn more: ow.ly/kFvw50T4bbt
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Championing Small Charities
We’re investing in new approaches, campaigns and research to influence and improve policy and practice for people affected by domestic and sexual abuse and the specialist charities working with them
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Lloyds Bank Foundation @lbfew.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
‼️ CLOSING NEXT WEEK! Deadline: 5pm, 29 May. Don't miss the opportunity to send through your application for an unrestricted grant of £75,000 for three years under our racial equity programme! www.lloydsbankfoundation.org.uk/funding/raci...
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Apply for funding under the racial equity programme
This programme is for small charities and CIOs led by and working with people are experiencing economic inequity because of their race or ethnicity. Eligible charities can apply for funding of £75,000...
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Lloyds Bank Foundation @lbfew.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Can development support enable #SmallButVital charities to build sustainable income streams? The answer is yes. Find out how small #DomesticAbuse charity Reducing the Risk did just that. bit.ly/44IAc3C
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Charity story: Reducing the Risk
Find out how how support from the Foundation has enabled small charity Reducing the Risk to monetise and franchise their domestic abuse awareness training, boosting their reach and income.
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Lloyds Bank Foundation @lbfew.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
A new report from our charity partner highlights the widespread failure of local authorities across the UK to provide safe, legal and accessible transit sites for Gypsy and Traveller communities: www.gypsy-traveller.org/news/new-sum...
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New Summary Report: FOI reveals devastating lack of transit site provision - Friends, Families and Travellers
Today, a new summary report from Friends, Families and Travellers (FFT) highlights the widespread failure of local authorities across the UK to provide safe, legal and accessible transit sites for Gyp...
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Lloyds Bank Foundation @lbfew.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
As a learning organisation, we are keen to continue working in partnership with the deaf and disabled-led small charities and incorporating lived experience within our grant-making process. Read more in our blog www.lloydsbankfoundation.org.uk/our-impact/n...
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What we’ve learned so far from funding Deaf and Disabled people’s organisations
Richard Paynter, Head of Grants (South) at Lloyds Bank Foundation, shares the lessons we have learned since we started our programme for Deaf and Disabled People and the changes we have made to make i...
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Lloyds Bank Foundation @lbfew.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
We are currently investing in 12 #SmallButVital Deaf charities in England and Wales, totalling £900,000 in funding! #DeafAwarenessWeek
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Lloyds Bank Foundation @lbfew.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
In 2015, we launched a Trading and Sustainability programme. m2 have carried out an evaluation into the programme. ✅89% agreed that the programme enabled an entrepreneurial mindset ✅66% agreed that they were better placed to measure their organisational income Read it in full bit.ly/4izpTC7
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Read an evaluation of our trading and sustainability programme
Since 2015, we have run a Trading and Sustainability programme for charity leaders in partnership with the School of Social Entrepreneurs. This independent evaluation shares key findings on how the co...
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Lloyds Bank Foundation @lbfew.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
🔍 A little factoid for our 40th anniversary. We offered our first-ever iteration of capacity-building support back in 1992! And now? In 2024, we connected: 🤝 361 Lloyds Banking Group colleagues shared their skills with charities.   💬 265 volunteers joined 49 charity forums.
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Lloyds Bank Foundation @lbfew.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
We commissioned research by @thinknpc.bsky.social to help identify the challenges facing voluntary sector organisations working in the criminal justice system and how funders can work better together to support them. Read the report: www.lloydsbankfoundation.org.uk/influencing/...
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Funding into the criminal justice voluntary sector
This report explores funding flows into the criminal justice voluntary sector and offers recommendations for philanthropic and statutory funders’ priorities and processes.
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Lloyds Bank Foundation @lbfew.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
"The freedom of the grant being unrestricted has been really helpful as well. Being trusted that we know best is really refreshing." Since 2020, all our grants through our main programmes have been unrestricted. Read how this has supported sustainability at Hope and Vision ow.ly/lNBV50VHCb8
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Hope and Vision Communities
Hope and Vision Communities provides accommodation and ongoing support for people that have completed residential treatment for addiction. Founder Tony Attwood spoke to us about how he set up Hope and...
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Lloyds Bank Foundation @lbfew.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Don't miss the chance to send through your application for £100,000 funding for your local collaboration. Deadline is 5pm 30 April. 📢ONE DAY TO GO! bit.ly/41ae8eI
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Apply for funding under our local collaborations programme.
Under this programme, we will support collaborations led by small charities seeking to influence and achieve local or regional change. Eligible collaborations can apply to a grant of £100,000 over two...
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Lloyds Bank Foundation @lbfew.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
❓ If you could create a total system change in your community, how would you do it? For one, changing systems takes time. New blog and learning product sharing our lessons from our evaluation of our work in six communities across England and Wales bit.ly/4cNMwl4
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Lessons from our work in communities: changing the system takes time and getting the balance right
We reflect on two of the lessons from our work with people and communities: changing the system takes time, and balancing shape, pace, power and certainty.
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Lloyds Bank Foundation @lbfew.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Development opportunities can often be unaffordable for a small charity. This is where skills based volunteering can help. Through our partnership with Lloyds Banking Group, we match up charities with volunteers for free. Watch how this benefited one charity leader youtu.be/vEHlCb0Kj6w?...
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Lloyds Bank Foundation Skills Based Volunteering - Halaleh
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Roots HR CIC @rootshr.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
National Minimum Wage rates increased this month! Ensure your payroll systems are updated for all age brackets✅ Need help understanding these changes? Our HR consultants can support and guide you on your compliance journey, get in touch: www.rootshr.org.uk/contact-root...
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Lloyds Bank Foundation @lbfew.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
📧 Did you know we send out a monthly newsletter? Sign up and receive information on ✅Funding news ✅Policy updates ✅Free resources from the Foundation ✅Sector wide events ✅Updates on Funder Practice ✅Report launches And more! bit.ly/LBFsubscribe
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Z2K (Zacchaeus 2000 Trust) @z2ktrust.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Disability benefit cuts won’t just impact disabled people and their families; they will also seriously hamper the government’s ability to deliver on its own central mission... Read our full blog👀 z2k.org/mission-crit...
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Mission critical: How disability benefit cuts threaten to jeopardise the government’s missions - Z2K
The government has set out five key missions which it sees as key to showing the British public that it is delivering on their priorities. Our Senior Policy Adviser explains how cuts to disability ben...
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Third Sector @thirdsector.co.uk · 17/04/2025
Charities must “rethink traditional approaches and embrace new models of operations” over the next year, the National Council for Voluntary Organisations has warned
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Charities must ‘rethink traditional approaches’ over the next year, NCVO warns
The membership body’s latest Road Ahead report examines how charities can navigate oncoming challenges
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Lloyds Bank Foundation @lbfew.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Ministers must seize the opportunity of DWP’s review of #UniversalCredit in the coming months to resolve the ongoing flaws in its operation and properly address the inadequacy of its basic Standard Allowance. @policyinpractice.bsky.social policyinpractice.co.uk/blog/new-ana...
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New analysis: Deductions and sanctions for people on Universal Credit | Policy in Practice
New analysis reveals how deductions and sanctions in Universal Credit deepen hardship, reducing real support for low income households.
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Lloyds Bank Foundation @lbfew.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
The power of local collaborations 💪 Read our blog to find out how #SmallButVital Quetzal and other charities are driving meaningful change through local partnerships. Have a similar idea? Our funding for local collaborations closes on 30 April. www.lloydsbankfoundation.org.uk/our-impact/n...
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How local collaborations led by small charities are influencing change
Deborah Knight, CEO of Quetzal, shares how they are partnering with other local organisations to improve the social security system for people who have experienced trauma and the experience of being p...
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Crisis @crisis-uk.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Check out our new #HomelessnessMonitorWales 2025. Research with I-SPHERE at @heriotwattuni.bsky.social shows governments must take bold action if we are to turn the tide on the rising numbers of people experiencing homelessness in Wales. www.crisis.org.uk/Homelessness...
Aerial view of a residential street with cars and houses, overlaid with text about a report titled "The homelessness monitor: Wales 2025". Logos of Crisis, Heriot-Watt University, and UNSW are displayed along with names of contributors to the study.
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NPC @thinknpc.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Influencing policy can be a great way for charities to deliver social change.Trustees need to know how to support this. Our event will discuss 🌟 Opportunities & challenges 🌟 Legal & regulatory landscape for #influencing 🌟 Working with a government nationally/locally: www.thinknpc.org/events-and-t...
Trusteeship and influencing in the new political landscape
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Civil Society @civilsociety.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Charity leaders are operating in the “most uncertain and challenging time”, with some facing burnout and leaving the sector, a @stonekingllp.bsky.social event heard yesterday from leaders of NCVO, Age UK, @tnlcomfund.bsky.social, @lbfew.bsky.social and @neweconomics.bsky.social
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‘Most uncertain and challenging time’ to be a charity leader, event hears
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Lloyds Bank Foundation @lbfew.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
It's so great to read how our funding has supported #SmallButVital P.H.O.E.B.E to expand its services and purchase a second building, boosting the charity’s ability to offer safe refuge and 'essential support services' to Black and minoritised women! www.eadt.co.uk/news/2505374...
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Charity expands refuge services for domestic abuse victims
A charity has expanded its refuge services for domestic abuse victims with a new property in Ipswich.
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Lloyds Bank Foundation @lbfew.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
We are pleased to be partnering with Emmaus UK in its efforts to ensure the effective implementation of the Supported Housing Act. Part of their work is incorporating lived experience so their testimony is heard and informs the new standards. www.lloydsbankfoundation.org.uk/our-impact/n...
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Shaping the Supported Housing Act through lived experience
Emmaus is working with people with lived experience of supported housing to help shape the new Supported Housing Act.
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Lloyds Bank Foundation @lbfew.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
We are hosting our racial equity pre-application webinar tomorrow. Sign up for your free place here. Already signed up? You can find all supporting documents and guidance over on our website to have on hand when joining us. www.lloydsbankfoundation.org.uk/funding/raci...
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Apply for funding under the racial equity programme
This programme is for small charities and CIOs led by and working with people are experiencing economic inequity because of their race or ethnicity. Eligible charities can apply for funding of £75,000...
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Third Sector @thirdsector.co.uk · 02/04/2025
Third Sector will offer 15 randomly selected organisations the chance to enter one of 13 categories in a scheme that exists to spotlight the successes of small, micro, local and ethnic minority-led charities
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Deadline extended for small charities to apply for free entry to the Third Sector Awards
Eligible organisations have until Tuesday 8 April to put their names forward
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Lloyds Bank Foundation @lbfew.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Great to bring together our #SmallButVital partner Family Help Darlington and Darlington MP @lolamcevoymp.bsky.social to hear about their services to support domestic and economic abuse survivors. They were also joined by Lloyds Banking Group's Emily Cox and Sarah Legg, who is our trustee!
Our regional manager Neil Shashoua with CEO of Family Help Darligton, Emily Cox and Sarah Legg from Lloyds Banking Group and Lola McEvoy MP. They are standing side by side against a brick wall, looking at the camera and smiling.
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Rethink Mental Illness @rethinkcharity.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Last week was a difficult and uncertain week for people living with mental illness. To help you understand what the proposed government changes to the social security system mean—and how you can make your voice heard—join our webinar on 9 April at 12pm. Find out more and sign up 👉 bit.ly/4hlN965
Promotional graphic for a webinar on how reforms of the benefits system affect people living with mental illness, hosted by Rethink Mental Illness. The text on a blue background states "What do reforms of the benefits system mean for people severely affected by mental illness?", along with "Join our webinar" in a green bubble.
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Lloyds Bank Foundation @lbfew.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Help us shape our organisational development support offers for our Deaf and Disabled people's organisation programme and ensure it is inclusive and accessible for all. Take part in this survey and share your thoughts by 2 April www.surveymonkey.com/r/FB5NQSS
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Lloyds Bank Foundation Survey: What support do DDPOs need to develop? [March 2025]
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Nicole Sykes @nicolesykes.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
“Our country’s third pillar of civil society is essential,” says @thisismatthyde.bsky.social of @lbfew.bsky.social at #anthropy calling for cross-sector focus on growing giving and partnership with purpose-driven business to unlock greater financial and human capital.
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Helen Barnard @helenbarnard.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Appalling. - 800,000 disabled people will lose PIP - 3m will lose money from changes to the main health element of UC, £500 a year for existing claimants, and £3000 for new claimants - £500m will come out of the carers benefits bill as 150,000 lose carers allowance or UC care element
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Joseph Rowntree Foundation @jrf-uk.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
- 800,000 will lose PIP according to the OBR - 3m will lose money from changes to the main health element of UC, £500 a year for existing claimants, and £3000 for new claimants - £500m will come out of the carers benefits bill as 150,000 lose carers allowance or UC care element 2/3
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Z2K (Zacchaeus 2000 Trust) @z2ktrust.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
1/7: At today’s Spring Statement, the government announced yet more panicked cuts to vital support for disabled people. The government also set out more detail about the impact that its huge cuts to support will have on disabled people 🧵
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Lloyds Bank Foundation @lbfew.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Many of the #SmallButVital charities we partner with are reporting an increase in the no. of people they support who are homeless or threatened with it, so we really welcome yesterday's Govt announcement of an extra £2 billion for 18,000 new social/affordable homes. www.gov.uk/government/n...
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£2 billion new investment to support biggest boost in social and affordable housebuilding in a generation
Hard working families to get safe and secure homes as Chancellor announces £2 billion injection of new grant funding to deliver up to 18,000 new social and affordable homes.
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Nicole Sykes @nicolesykes.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Questions from @thisismatthyde.bsky.social for civil society: - How do we step up with bold transformative collective ideas while we’re so dredged in crisis? - How do we tell our story as a sector better so we’re taken more seriously? Big questions we’re wrestling with as we review our strategy.
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Lloyds Bank Foundation @lbfew.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
We have two open funding programmes: - Local collaborations can apply for a grant of £100,000 - Charities and CICs working with people who are experiencing economic inequity because of their race or ethnicity Check your eligibility and apply www.lloydsbankfoundation.org.uk/funding
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Funding from Lloyds Bank Foundation
We partner with small and local charities and communities working with people facing complex issues and barriers. Through unrestricted funding and support to develop, we work alongside those who under...
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Lloyds Bank Foundation @lbfew.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Important new research here by @carers-uk.bsky.social. The Govt's announcement last autumn of an independent review of Carers Allowance overpayments was welcome. However, while it considers evidence, thousands of carers are being chased for overpayments. DWP must suspend this punitive action.
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Lloyds Bank Foundation @lbfew.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
An estimated 15-20% of the UK population are neurodivergent. Many face challenges in the workplace. In this blog, #SmallButVital charity SAMME share how they supported more than 900 disabled and neurodivergent people to develop the skills to start self-employment ow.ly/HGtI50Vma7j
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Equipping neurodivergent and disabled people to turn their passions into businesses
Logan, a young person supported by our charity partner SAMEE, shares how he has been supported to set up his own business and gain more independence.
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Lloyds Bank Foundation @lbfew.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Am ddiwrnod 😊! It was great to welcome Welsh CVCs, charities and representatives from national orgs at the #FindingTheGood reflection event this week! We heard practical and hopeful ideas, including a commitment to over 20 immediate actions, to continue shaping commissioning practice across Wales
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NPC @thinknpc.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Join us in May when we will present our new research which aims to better understand how funding is currently allocated so that we can find ways to make the system easier to navigate, increase collaboration, and improve services. @lbfew.bsky.social
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How is funding allocated for the voluntary sector in the criminal justice system? - NPC
This free event will explore how funding is allocated in the criminal justice voluntary sector, based on our research.
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Lloyds Bank Foundation @lbfew.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
"If the state turns off the tap on the money you get, it's charities you turn to" Our director of policy, comms & research @nicolesykes.bsky.social spoke to @matthew-wright.bsky.social on @lbc.co.uk about the impact cuts to disability benefits will have www.globalplayer.com/catchup/lbc/...
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Matthew Wright | Global Player
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Lloyds Bank Foundation @lbfew.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
We are passionate about influencing change on the issues that drive disadvantage. That is why we invested £2.4m in charities to improve national policy and practice. Here, Emmaus, funded under the programme, share their work shaping the Supported Housing Act ow.ly/qbSn50VhVnz
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Shaping the Supported Housing Act through lived experience
Emmaus is working with people with lived experience of supported housing to help shape the new Supported Housing Act.
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Lloyds Bank Foundation @lbfew.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
We are now accepting applications from #SmallButVital charities and CIOs led by and work with people experiencing economic inequity because of their race or ethnicity. Eligible charities can apply for a three-year grant of £75,000 alongside development support. Find out more bit.ly/3XOAhOF
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Apply for funding under the racial equity programme
This programme is for small charities and CIOs led by and working with people are experiencing economic inequity because of their race or ethnicity. Eligible charities can apply for funding of £75,000...
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Women for Refugee Women @4refugeewomen.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Huge thank you to the @lbfew.bsky.social for an inspiring day bringing together organisations from across the UK to connect and share learnings. We left feeling energised and determined! 🌟 Great to see our friends from @cityofsanctuaryuk.bsky.social too💜
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Lloyds Bank Foundation @lbfew.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Yesterday we bought together the projects we are funding under our National Influencing programme to build connections, hear their project updates and share learning so far – as well as get inspired by opportunities to come.
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Lloyds Bank Foundation @lbfew.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Funding under our racial equity programme will open soon! Stay in the know and sign up to our email alert once funding is live. bit.ly/4gm1IH2
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Lloyds Bank Foundation @lbfew.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Right now, we are investing in 93 #SmallButVital charities that support women or are women-allies, totalling £6,049,446 in funding! As we look towards #InternationalWomensDay tomorrow, read our thread to learn about some of our charity partners who advocate for a better future for women and girls 💪
Currently, we are investing nearly £6.5 million reaching more than 95 community organisation working with women.
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