Aims/priorities:
The funding is for organisations who are led by the communities they serve and alongside providing immediate crisis support and working with people over the longer term to help them break free from poverty and achieve their potential.
Applicants must be delivering their services in the following ways:
- In-depth services – delivering a range of services supporting individuals through a structured pathway over a prolonged period. This must include advice and/or advocacy, such as access to accommodation/housing support, welfare and benefits advice and advocacy, debt support, access to healthcare, and access to legal and employment rights advice.
- A range of longer-term support to empower and support d/Deaf and Disabled people to participate in everyday life and have a voice in the decisions that impact them.
- Person-centred services - organisations should have trusted relationships with providers or agencies which can help people to overcome the challenges they face and meet their basic needs.
- Personal plans – working together with the people they support to understand the challenges they may be experiencing and agree on how to help them find a way to overcome them.
Who can apply:
Registered charities and charitable incorporated organisations (CIOs) can apply.
To be eligible, all organisations must:
- Have at least one set of annual accounts showing as ‘received’ on the Charity Commission website, covering a 12-month operating period.
- Have a Board of at least three unrelated trustees in place, with their names appearing on their Charity Commission records.
- Be based and working in England and Wales. Most of the organisation’s time and money is spent on activities in England and/or Wales and helping people living in England and/or Wales.
- Have an annual income of between £25,000 and £500,000 in the last set of published accounts. This is total income and, in the case of consolidated accounts, should cover all entities within those accounts.
- Have a bank account in the name of the organisation with unrelated signatories. If the application is successful, the grant must be paid into this account.
- Be able to show the majority of people in positions of power (including directors/trustees, the CEO and senior managers) are not related nor living at the same address.
- Have a track record of delivering services, for at least one year, to people aged 17 and over. Applicants must currently be delivering these services.
- Have a safeguarding policy in place.
- Hold Public Liability Insurance.
- Be an independent organisation.
- Not have a live grant with Lloyds Bank Foundation with more than 12 months to run at the time of the programme closing.
Grant amount:
Successful applicants will receive grants of £75,000, over three years (£25,000 per year).
Application process:
There will be an information webinar on 21 June 2023 from 10.30am to 12.15pm.
The guidance notes and all other relevant documents can be found on the Lloyds Bank Foundation for England and Wales website.
Deadline:
The deadline for applications is 31 August 2023 (5pm). Awards are expected in mid-December 2023.
Contact information:
Contact the Lloyds Bank Foundation for England and Wales for further information.
Tel: 0370 411 1223
Email: enquiries@lloydsbankfoundation.org.uk