Lloyds Bank Foundation - Specialist Programme
Our focus is to support small, local, specialist charities with an income of £25,000–£500,000 where our three-year unrestricted £75,000 grant and support to develop, can make the greatest impact. We’ll support charities that understand the complexity of the issues people face and are best placed to make a genuine difference to people’s lives.
The current themes that are supported are:
Addiction
Asylum Seekers and Refugees
Care Leavers
Domestic Abuse
Homelessness
Offending
Sexual abuse and exploitation
Trafficking and Modern Slavery
To be eligible to apply for a grant from us, your charity needs to meet all the following criteria:
Be registered as a charity or as a charitable incorporated organisation (CIO) with the Charity Commission. We will ask for your charity registration number at the start of your application
Have at least one set of annual accounts showing as ‘received’ on the Charity Commission website, covering a twelve-month operating period
Have an annual income of between £25,000 and £500,000 in your last accounts published on the Charity Commission website. 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 charity with unrelated signatories. If the application is successful, the grant must be paid into this account
Have a board of at least three unrelated trustees in place, with their names appearing on your Charity Commission records
The majority of people in positions of power (including trustees, the CEO and senior managers) must not be related nor live at the same address. Where there are related parties, we will consider the relationship, conflicts of interest and loyalty, the balance of power of the related trustees, and how this is managed
Not make any payments to trustees, except for out-of-pocket expenses
Have a track record of delivering services, for at least one year, to people aged 17 and over. You must also currently be delivering these services. If your charity has recently merged, then this must apply to at least one charity pre-merger
Have a safeguarding policy in place. We will assess your understanding of this policy as well as the approach to safeguarding across your organisation
Hold Public Liability Insurance
Be an independent organisation. We will look at any formal associations you have with other organisations, parent bodies, or group structures. We will check that the board of the applicant charity has full control over its work and any conflicts of interest
Not have a live grant with Lloyds Bank Foundation with more than twelve months to run at the time of submitting the application
Operate mainly in England and/or Wales. Most of your charity’s time and money is spent on activities in England and/or Wales and helping people living in England and/or Wales
Not include religious activity as a part of the services delivered unless the charity has been established to support people specifically of that faith
Meet the programme criteria outlined below
For more information, and to apply, visit: https://www.lloydsbankfoundation.org.uk/funding/specialist-programme