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Thrive

Thrive is a targeted grants programme developed to support charities providing financial advice, building financial resilience, delivering financial education or simply encouraging good financial health with people living in vulnerable circumstances. This could include providing practical financial support, budgeting assistance, help with debt management, financial education, and personalised advice, to help people navigate financial challenges and build long-term resilience. Unrestricted funding can be used towards core costs, delivery costs, project costs and/or general running costs enabling charities to use their funding in the way that helps them best and deal with challenges quickly and effectively. The programme is open to charities who currently offer financial resilience related activities, including those for whom this is not their core purpose but who intersect with financial resilience issues (e.g., charities focused on homelessness, disability, mental health, domestic abuse). For these charities, unrestricted funding can be used solely on any reasonable costs associated with delivering the focus area of financial resilience. Thrive is delivered in partnership with sister foundations across the UK - Lloyds Bank Foundation for England & Wales, Lloyds Bank Foundation for the Channel Islands, and Halifax Foundation for Northern Ireland - and has been made possible thanks to an additional donation from Lloyds Banking Group.

Empower

The Empower programme provides unrestricted funding to charities in Scotland that support vulnerable groups and people affected by the cost of living crisis. Empower offers real stability and certainty for charities with the opportunity for strategic support from Lloyds Banking Group colleagues to add value for charities and the vulnerable people they help. Unrestricted funding gives charities much greater scope to cover all essential costs and deal with challenges quickly and effectively. Through the Empower programme, the Foundation collaborates with Lloyds Banking Group to identify opportunities to add value for funded charities through strategic development support and colleague volunteers, helping charities grow stronger and thrive beyond the lifetime of their grant. The funding can be used towards core costs, delivery costs, project costs and/or general running costs enabling charities to use their funding in the way that helps them best.

Energise

Energise is an innovative, trusting, and bold grants programme enabling grassroots charities who are alive to the real issues on the ground to grow, and support more vulnerable people. The programme provides unrestricted funding to Scottish charities with an income of £150,000 or less, supporting those who put vulnerable people at the heart of everything they do. The programme has two funding tiers: charities with income below £50k are eligible for £20k (£10k per year over 2 years), while charities with income of £50k-£150k are eligible for £40k (£20k per year over 2 years). Unrestricted funding gives charities much greater scope to cover all essential costs and deal with challenges quickly and effectively, including core costs, delivery costs, project costs, and general running costs. The Foundation recognizes the profound impact that the cost-of-living crisis is having on people across Scotland and focuses on helping charities who support vulnerable groups and people.