Lloyds Bank Foundation launches Specialist Programme in the UK

Deadline: 23-Nov-2024

The Lloyds Bank Foundation has launched the Specialist Programme to support small, local, specialist charities.

They are committed to supporting charities that help people experiencing complex issues that don’t have simple solutions, such as homelessness, domestic abuse and addiction. These complex issues make life much harder for people, deepening trauma, impacting their health, leading to poverty and destitution, and preventing people from being able to fulfil their potential.

Open Themes

• Addiction
  • The primary purpose of your charity is to support people whose everyday lives are significantly affected by their addiction; this includes all forms of addiction. This may also include working with their families, but they do not fund charities where the focus is predominately on families.
• Asylum Seekers and Refugees
  • The primary purpose of your charity is to support people who arrived in the UK and have applied for asylum. You may also be supporting people who have been granted refugee status in the last two years.
• Care Leavers
  • The primary purpose of your charity is to support people aged 17 to 25, who are planning to leave care or who have left care and have support needs.
• You will provide a range of interventions, relationships and referral routes into specialist support, which enables people to leave care and live independently.
• Domestic Abuse
  • The primary purpose of your charity is to support people who have experienced an incident or pattern of controlling, coercive, threatening, degrading and/or violent behaviour. Your charity can also be working with perpetrators to reduce harm to others and challenge cycles of behaviour.
• Homelessness
  • The primary purpose of your charity is to support people who do not have a permanent home and are living on the streets, “sofa surfing” (i.e., staying with friends or family) staying in a hostel, night shelter, or B&B.
• Offending
  • The primary purpose of your charity is to support people with a history of offending which significantly impacts on everyday life. Your charity will focus on the rehabilitation of and prevention of reoffending for people with a custodial or community sentence.
• Sexual abuse and exploitation
  • The primary purpose of your charity is to support people who are survivors of sexual abuse and exploitation where their experiences significantly impact on their everyday life.
  • This includes sexual slavery, pornography, and sexual assault and sexual exploitation for financial gain.
• Trafficking and Modern Slavery
  • The primary purpose of your charity is to support people who have been trafficked or are survivors of modern slavery.
  • You will provide a range of interventions and support directly and through partnerships and referral routes to ensure people can safely exit either or both international and domestic trafficking, support with asylum and immigration claims (if necessary), provide routes into safe accommodation, provide safety planning and mental health support to address trauma.

Funding Information

• Under this programme, successful applicants will receive a grant of £75,000 over three years

Eligibility Criteria

• To be eligible to apply for a grant from us, your charity needs to meet all the criteria below.
  • Be registered as a charity or a charitable incorporated organisation (CIO) with the Charity Commission if you are registered in England and Wales or the Index for Charities if registered in the Isle of Man. They 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 the latest 12-month operating period.
  • If you are based in the Isle of Man, they will ask you to submit your latest set of accounts.
  • 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 and have their names appear 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, they will consider the relationship, conflicts of interest and loyalty, the balance of power of the related trustees, and how this is managed.
  • Be an independent organisation.

For more information, visit Lloyds Bank Foundation.