The Lloyds Bank Foundation is offering grants to support registered charities led by and working with d/Deaf and Disabled people who are experiencing poverty.
Funding Information
Successful applicants will receive grants of £75,000, over three years (£25,000 per year).
What they don’t fund?
They do not provide funding for the following organisations:
Organisations that are not charities registered in England and Wales.
Infrastructure or ‘umbrella’ organisations.
Peer support groups, which do not provide in depth support services alongside advice or advocacy services.
Organisations whose primary purpose is to give funds to individuals or other organisations. This means organisations use more than 50% of their annual expenditure as grants.
Organisations working predominantly outside England and Wales.
Organisations that require people to take part in a religious activity as part of the support provided.
Hospitals, health authorities, or hospices.
Rescue services.
Schools, colleges, or universities.
Eligibility Criteria
In this programme, they will fund small charities and charitable incorporated organisations (CIOs).
Be based and working in England and 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.
Be registered as a charity with the Charity Commission. They will ask for your charity registration number at the start of your application.
Be led by and working for the communities you support. By this, they mean that at least 75% of your trustees and at least 50% of staff self-identify as d/Deaf or Disabled.
Have at least one set of annual accounts showing as ‘received’ on the Charity Commission website, covering a twelve-month period.
Have an annual income of between £25,000 and £500,000 in the last set of published accounts 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 some 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.
Not make any payments to trustees, except for out-of-pocket expenses.
Have a track record of delivering services, for at least one year. You must currently be delivering services. If your organisation has recently merged, then this must apply to at least one organisation pre-merger.
Your charity works predominately with adults over 17 years old.
Have a safeguarding policy in place. They will ask about your understanding of this policy as well as the approach to safeguarding across your organisation.
Hold Public Liability Insurance.
Be an independent organisation. They will look at any formal associations you have with other organisations, parent bodies, or group structures. They will check that the Board of your charity has full control over the work and any conflicts of interest.
If you have a live grant with Lloyds Bank Foundation, it must end before 31 August 2024.
Programme Criteria
You must meet this programme criteria to be considered for this funding programme:
People with lived experience (the people that your organisation exists to serve) should be at the centre of designing, developing, and managing the services you provide.
Your charity reflects an inclusive, rights based social model of disability. This approach describes people as being disabled by barriers in society, not by their impairment or difference.
Advice and/or advocacy casework will be a central part of your charity’s services. Alongside this you will be delivering longer-term support which empowers d/Deaf and Disabled people to participate in everyday life.
