New funding priorities in England and Wales for Lloyds TSB Foundation
Howard Lake | 26 March 2006 | News
The Lloyds TSB Foundation has announced its new funding priorities for 2006 for charities with beneficiaries throughout all parts England and Wales.
The Foundation has identified the following new priority areas:
to support charities working with older people to enable them to play a fuller role in their communities
to support charities working with people with a learning disability to enable them to play a fuller role in their communities.
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The following priorities remain for 2006:
to support charities working with people from black and minority ethnic (BME) communities to enable them to play a fuller role in their communities.
to support charities working with refugees and asylum seekers to enable them to play a fuller role in their communities.
Eighty percent of the England and Wales-wide £3.2 million programme budget will be available for funding in the above priority areas. Twenty percent will be available for more general work enabling disadvantaged people to pay a fuller role in their communities. Grants will be for one, two or very exceptionally three years to support the following types of work:
direct service provision
support to second tier membership or umbrella bodies
infrastructure support
pilots and the research and development of work for replication throughout England and Wales
collaborative projects.
The Foundation’s ten regional offices will continue to have regional priorities for charities with beneficiaries in that area.
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