Lloyds Bank Foundation - Specialist programme
We support charities that help people overcome complex issues that don’t have simple solutions, issues like homelessness, domestic abuse and addiction. These make life much harder for people; deepening trauma, impacting health and wellbeing, leading to poverty and destitution, and preventing people from being able to fulfil their potential.
Small, local, specialist charities play a unique role in helping people rebuild their lives. Their size, connection to their communities and deep understanding of the issues people face make small charities best placed to reach, engage and support people. That’s why we support small charities with an annual income between £25,000 to £500,000 where the main focus of your charity is to provide support for one of the eight themes outlined below.
We want to ensure that the charities we support can thrive beyond the lifetime of our funding. That’s why we combine an unrestricted grant of £75,000 with a breadth of tailored support aimed at helping to strengthen charities and build the knowledge, skills and capabilities of staff and trustees. Find out more about what to expect and what this means for your charity during application and throughout the lifetime of your grant.
We will open for applications from Wednesday, 1 November 2023, 10 am.
We receive more applications than we are able to fund in any one year. In total, we will make 84 grants under this programme in 2024. If your charity does not meet our eligibility criteria it will not be considered for funding. In 2022/2023 just 61% of the applications we received were eligible for funding.
To check if you are eligible for this funding, please read the guidance below, including the guidance for the specific theme you will be applying under. You can start by taking a simple quiz to check your eligibility in just five minutes.
Webinar and Q&A
We’ll be hosting a webinar on Thursday, 9 November 2023, 10:30 am to 12:00 pm where we’ll discuss the eligibility for this programme and answer questions. If you’d like to join, please register here.
