Developmental support
We are enormously grateful for our strategic partnership with Lloyds Banking Group, not only as our sole funder but more importantly the access it provides to the skills and expertise of bank colleagues to enable the Foundation to offer support beyond just funding. In 2024, 22 charities benefited from a range of developmental support from one-off, 2-hour, on-line forums; to six-month programmes of themed support; to one-to-one year-long mentoring relationships. We know the fantastic benefits these opportunities provide for both the charities and the bank colleague volunteers.
We would like to thank all colleagues who have volunteered their time and expertise with charities in the Channel Islands.
What we had was real, leading experts in their fields informing and offering advice to our staff. The team received a plan they were able to present to their manager and we’re already seeing some of the support taking shape in our work. The depth of detail in the plan was invaluable.
Leading and managing teams
Communication and marketing
Reviewing organisation structures
Strategy, business and financial planning
Mentoring
Charity mentoring harnesses the skills of LBG employees to help strengthen the charities we fund.
Mentors support charities one to one to become more effective, more robust and more sustainable.
As well as resourcing their charity, mentors benefit from testing and stretching their skills in new settings, developing new capabilities, and building stronger ties to the islands’ communities.
Mentoring runs throughout the year.
Skills exchange
A charity is introduced to a group of LBG employees (known as their Support Team), who, over the six months, will use their skills, knowledge, and insights to help the charity tackle a problem or realise an untapped opportunity which they will need to identify when they sign up to take part.
This could be around the themes of Leadership and Management; Communications, Marketing and Digital; Financial Management; Risk; or Strategy.
The programme runs from January to June.
Charity response forums
Forums are an opportunity for charities to share their most pressing organisational concerns with a panel of LBG employees who bring a range of experience, skills and perspectives.
The forum take place online over 2.5 hours and are exclusively for a charity, allowing them to test their thinking and generate different approaches and ideas with the small panel.
Fourms run twice a year – spring and autumn.