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HELPING
SCOTLAND
RECOVER
JUNE 2021
As Scotland begins to ease out of This year our strategic offering is set to
lockdown, Bank of Scotland Foundation be enhanced with our collaboration with
is focused on supporting charities the Bank of Scotland Academy – an online
through the ongoing challenges they resource to improve the skills of charities,
face and Helping Scotland Recover. businesses and people through lessons and
webinars.
We're delighted to announce our grant
programmes for the rest of 2021 which see a Our first ever Online Event in May this year
mix of our Reach and Change programmes. saw many of our funded charities hear from
We're also offering funding for unrestricted a panel of speakers sharing examples and
core costs through our Change programme learnings on the strategic topics of ‘Digital’
for the first time. Over £690,000 of Reach and ‘Building Resilience’. We know from
grants have been awarded to 50 charities feedback from charity attendees that the
in 2021 so far, making a strong community two sessions were of great value, so we’re
impact across Scotland. Charities who making our Online Event highlights video
applied to our multi-year Invest programme available to all here.
will be notified mid-June of their outcome
when we expect to distribute a further £1.5m. We have a long journey ahead for all of
us and funding, as well as strategic support,
In addition to financial support, Lloyds will be as crucial as ever for charities as
Banking Group colleagues continue to the impact of the pandemic continues.
mentor some of the charities we fund, Working in partnership with Lloyds Banking
providing strategic support and expert Group, we’re proud to play our part in
guidance to strengthen their services. Helping Scotland Recover.
OUR PARTNERSHIP
WITH LLOYDS
BANKING GROUP
Reach Change
In February 2021, our annual donation
from Lloyds Banking Group was almost Reach will make positive Change will have a large-scale, long
£5m, enabling us to confidently plan and lasting change in term, positive impact on charities
the ways that we would support communities across and communities across Scotland.
charities during 2021, both through our Scotland. Charities with Charities with an income of between
grants programmes and by providing an income of £1.5m £500k - £2m can apply for capital
or less can apply for costs, project costs or unrestricted
support beyond funding alone.
£1,000-£25,000 over core costs of £50,000-£100,000
Our Matched Giving programme one year to support per annum over 1-2 years to ensure
continues to be a valuable source people through varying they can provide continued, reliable
of income for charities thanks to the stages of their lives. support for people.
fundraising and volunteering efforts
of Lloyds Banking Group colleagues.
Colleagues have found innovative ways
to support charities during lockdown
including virtual bucket collections, solo GRANT PROGRAMMES The second half of the year will see us focus
on a grants programme strategy that will Help
their resources, allowing them to respond
quickly to a changing environment and
marathons and selling recipe books they
have created, raising funds for small,
JUNE - DECEMBER 2021 Scotland Recover from the pandemic with a deploy resources accordingly.
mix of Reach and Change programmes.
local charities as well as larger, national Offering up to £200k over two years, our
charities close to their heart. In the first five months of the year we For the first time, charities will be able to Change programme will extend a lifeline
have awarded over £690,000 of grants to apply for unrestricted core costs through to charities allowing them to apply for
Our Charity Mentoring programme 50 charities through our Reach programme, our Change programme. We hope that whatever is their greatest priority and area
has also continued throughout lockdown, addressing areas such as mental health, unrestricted core cost funding will give of need - whether that be capital costs,
with the Group’s colleagues and the financial vulnerability and social isolation. charities greater flexibility over how they use project work or unrestricted core costs.
charities they help moving to remote
mentoring until such time that restrictions
ease and face-to-face meetings can take Programme Dates June – December 2021
place again.
Our partnership with the Group also PROGRAMME
OPEN CLOSE GRANTS AWARDED
gives us access to new initiatives and we (Charity income criteria)
are pleased to launch our collaboration
with the Bank of Scotland Academy. The
Reach (Less than £1.5m) 12 Noon Thursday 3rd June 12 Noon Tuesday 8th June Mid-July 2021
Academy offers charities a huge variety
of online lessons and webinars in digital,
life and work skills and is an exciting Reach (Less than £1.5m) 12 Noon Monday 26th July 12 Noon Thursday 29th July Mid-September 2021
opportunity for us to help charities and
their beneficiaries develop and improve.
Change (£500k-£2m) 12 Noon Tuesday 31st August 12 Noon Thursday 9th September End of November 2021
We are very proud of our partnership
with the Group and look forward to
continuing this relationship throughout Reach (Less than £1.5m) 12 Noon Monday 20th September 12 Noon Thursday 24th September End of November 2021
2021 and beyond.
MAXWELLTOWN INFORMATION CENTRE
The Maxwelltown Information Centre When Covid lockdowns prevented people negate the need to decide between heat
is a community centre and garden based accessing the centre for help, the charity and food; signposting to mental health
in the heart of Dundee’s Coldside. They quickly adapted, switching mainly to organisations; financial support and much
are committed to improving the quality telephone support. This way, they could more.
of life for the local community and to continue to help individuals take control
combatting social exclusion, poverty, of their lives by addressing the day to day Alison Goodfellow, Project Manager at
disadvantage, and discrimination. issues affecting them, such as poverty, debt, Maxwell said, “Due to the pandemic, more
The centre provides a welcoming unemployment and poor health. people have needed to access food than
and empowering environment, open ever before and have had more issues to
to everyone, to socialise, access The initial role of the Project Worker was to contend with too. However, we’ve learned
information and learn new skills such support those in the local area, but during that we can adapt when needed and still
as creative gardening, cooking and the pandemic the charity was supporting maintain support for those who need it.
upcycling. people Dundee-wide through its call line.
Every individual who contacted them was "Thanks to the funding from Bank of
The charity received a grant of £15,140 able to access emergency food within that Scotland Foundation, our Project Worker
from the November Reach programme working day and offered support for the has been able to support a wider range
in 2019 to fund the salary of an existing reasons that lead to food insecurity. The of people across Dundee, rather than just
part-time Project Worker and enable them majority of these people received further our local community and enabled our vital
to continue supporting up to 750 people support, including access to local food service to continue to help people access
who were facing financial crisis and food larders that provide low cost, nutritional food and mitigate food insecurity.
insecurity. food; help applying for fuel vouchers to
continue transforming services using barriers and improve accessibility and the children and young people through music.
digital tools to break down barriers and strategies charities are implementing to Elanor Gunn, Acting Head of Centre from
improve accessibility. develop the skills necessary to embrace Sistema Scotland provided an overview of
long-term digital change. how the charity adapted their Big Noise
Hosted by our Chair, Phillip Grant, our guest project over the last 12 months to continue
speakers included Ross McCulloch, Founder Throughout the Building Resilience Session supporting their children and young people
Third Sector Lab; Sally Dyson, Head of Digital our panel provided real insight and food for and shared a wonderful video showcasing
Participation, SCVO; Nancy Campbell, thought as they talked through ways in which their hard work. (The 5-minute video can be
Strategic Development Manager, MS Therapy charities can provide well-being support viewed on our Facebook & Twitter pages.)
Centre; Jemma Waters, Head of Responsible to their staff, volunteers and beneficiaries,
Transformation, Lloyds Banking Group, how charities can use partnership working The key take-way and most common piece
Frances Simpson, Support in Mind, Anna to capitalise on one and others capabilities of advice that emerged from our Online
On the 19th of May, we hosted our very
Fowlie, SCVO and Kirsty McNab, Scottish and information relating to the wealth of Event was the importance of embracing
first Online Event to give charities and
Sports Futures who all provided different resources available to support well-being new challenges and focussing on what you
third sector leaders the opportunity
perspectives relating to their expertise in and resilience. can do, rather than what you can’t do.
to share the excellent ways they have
regards to Digital and Building Resilience.
overcome challenges, adapted services As part of the event, we welcomed Sistema We thank everyone for joining us and
and built resilience throughout the During our Digital Session our panel gave Scotland for our ‘Bringing Funding to Life’ helping shape the discussion of the event.
pandemic. The conversation was both wonderful perspectives covering the ways section, to demonstrate the impact of their Our 25-minute highlights video can be
reflective and forward thinking, looking organisations can use digital solutions to Bank of Scotland Foundation funding of over viewed via this link.
back over the last twelve months but overcome challenges, how organisations are £184k in 2019. Sistema Scotland is a charity
also looking at ways the third sector can promoting digital inclusion to break down based in Govanhill transforming the lives of
A WORD FROM OUR CHAIR
The last year has been one of the most As we look towards Helping Scotland
challenging years faced by the Foundation Recover, I’m pleased to offer charities, staff
and indeed the whole of Scotland. I must and volunteers access to the new Bank of
recognise at the outset the huge efforts Scotland Academy where they can learn
from the Foundation team and the Board new skills to develop and improve
that ensured we could continue to support themselves and their organisations.
Scotland’s charities throughout the
Covid-19 pandemic. I am hugely grateful Lastly, I must acknowledge the support
for their dedication and professionalism of our sole funder, Lloyds Banking Group.
throughout the year. We are hugely grateful for the Group’s
annual donation that has enabled us to offer
In the last twelve months our strategy has a range of grants programmes to charities
been adapted to ensure we can distribute across Scotland that will help to provide
our funding effectively, efficiently and people with opportunity and equality and
quickly to charities - including increasing the make positive, sustainable change.
frequency of our grant funding, amending
the income criteria to enable more charities From everyone at Bank
to apply and allowing charities to apply for of Scotland Foundation,
larger amounts of funding. Our changes we hope that you stay
have brought stability to charities during very safe and well.
challenging months and helped them meet
the immediate and longer term needs of
some of Scotland’s most vulnerable people.
The energy and determination of charity
BANK OF SCOTLAND ACADEMY staff and volunteers throughout the
pandemic has been inspirational, from
Philip Grant,
moving to providing services online,
Chair
We are excited to announce a new of Scotland Foundation, giving charities distributing hundreds of food parcels to
collaboration with the Bank of Scotland across Scotland the skills and confidence those most in need and tackling isolation.
Academy, which provides further to thrive and help their users at this
opportunity for us to offer charities unprecedented time.”
support beyond funding alone.
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