Brochure 2013 Lloyds Bank

ANNUAL
REVIEW
2013
LLOYDS BANK FOUNDATION FOR NORTHERN IRELAND
formerly Lloyds TSB Foundation for Northern Ireland
The Lloyds Bank Foundation for Northern Ireland

(formerly the Lloyds TSB Foundation for Northern
Ireland) is a leading independent grant maker and a
registered charity.
CONTENTS
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The Foundations income is derived from a covenant with Lloyds
Banking Group. The Board of Trustees, which meets on five
occasions throughout the year, agrees on the Foundations strategic
priorities and distributes the funding.
The Foundation contributes significantly to vulnerable communities
by supporting charitable organisations within Northern Ireland to
enable people, who are disadvantaged or with special needs,
to participate actively in their communities.
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Cover photo: The Wash Basin Foodbank
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Chairmans Report
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Executive Directors Report
06-07
Grants Overview

08-09
Creating Change
10-13
International grant programme
14-17
THE MATCHED giving scheme
18-19
COLLABORATION GRANTS
20-23
community Grant Programme
24-35
COMMUNITY Grant Programme Process
36-37
Trustees of the Foundation
38-39
Trustees Statement, Auditors Report
40-41
Statement of Financial Activities
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Ballysillan Youth for Christ

The funding provided by the Lloyds Bank
Foundation for Northern Ireland has enabled the
BlueHouses to creatively engage with the children
and young people of the local community through
the provision of drop in and personal development
programmes. Our drop in for both Juniors and
Seniors provides not only a refreshing alternative
to being out on the streets but a place of belonging
and community in a climate of support.
01.
Chairmans report
For the year ended 31 December 2013
Peter Thompson, Centre Co-ordinator

I take great pleasure in reporting another successful
year for Lloyds Bank Foundation for Northern Ireland
(formerly known as Lloyds TSB Foundation for Northern
Ireland) during 2013.
This year brought a further 1,872,945 from Lloyds
Banking Group as the 4th and final payment of a
funding agreement for the period 2010 to 2013. The
Trustees were grateful to the Chairman, Directors and
Staff of Lloyds Banking Group for the stability of this
funding in uncertain financial times.
While the Community Grant Programme (previously
known as Standard Grant) continues to be the
cornerstone of the Foundations work, we continued to
implement a broad portfolio of grant programmes, all
specifically designed to support the needs of the sector.
Under this programme, the Foundation had 520 applications
from charitable and voluntary organisations and awarded
339 grants totalling 1,194,976. This was a decrease
of 2% on 2012 and reflected a tightening of various
funding sources for the sector with many high quality
organisations being forced to downsize, merge or close.
The Foundation continues to focus on helping those
smaller, underfunded bodies who are having great
difficulty continuing their work in such straightened times.
The funding of Creating Change saw 18 smaller charities
provided with funding of 155,509 in this the final year

of this innovative six year programme. This capacity
building programme has been very successful in
supporting the growth and development needs of these
organisations and external evaluation of the programme
will be commissioned to capture the learning both for
the Foundation and for other funders interested in this
grants-plus approach.
Another key programme is the Special Initiatives
Programme, designed in response to the significant
changes taking place within the voluntary and community
sector in Northern Ireland. This programme can, on a
pro-active basis, consider projects of particular value to the
overall sector at a strategic level for wide-spread benefit.
We continued to run an International Programme designed
to support work carried out overseas by charities based
in Northern Ireland. We received 20 applications for the
funding and were able to provide 95,395 to a total of
14 organisations in furtherance of their work. Making
decisions on which projects to assist was extremely
difficult given the dramatic and pressing needs identified.
Our Collaborative Programme witnessed a number of
projects come to a successful conclusion and we are
delighted that the future costs of much of this work will
be picked up by other funders keen to disseminate our
learning and maximise the impact for the benefit of
organisations working in the areas of Youth Empowerment,
Access to Funds for Older People, the Development of
Philanthropy and support for Social Enterprise.
In terms of our joint work with Lloyds Banking Group,
we were delighted to launch a Partnership Project
geared at enterprise training for young unemployed
people and work experience with social enterprises on
a growth path. We also continued to administer the
Matched Giving Scheme for Lloyds Banking Group
employees adding to their volunteering and fundraising
efforts for the benefit of local charities.
We continue to apply high governance standards to our
work, including comprehensive monitoring of our grant
making processes and outcomes. The Trustees remain

very engaged in the decision making and take a keen
interest in the organisations we are able to assist.
Mrs Paddy Bailie retired from the Board in March 2013
after many years of distinguished service to the Foundation,
latterly as Chairman. Paddy played a key role in many of
the important moments in the history of the Foundation,
and her support and enthusiasm will be missed.
We have been lucky enough to find two excellent
new Board members in Paula Leathem and Richard
Buckley, who both bring distinctive and very relevant
experience to our work and have already made a strong
contribution. My thanks also go to the other Board
members who give unstintingly of their time and
expertise in ensuring that we meet our objectives.
Thanks also must go the Officers of the Foundation the team have continued to play a very effective role
both within Northern Ireland and indeed further afield.
The challenge ahead will be to continue to work
strategically with our Funder, Lloyds Banking Group,
to ensure the ongoing success of the Foundation and
a new agreement was signed in December 2013 to
provide stability to do just that.
It has been a very productive first year as Chairman,
which I have enjoyed immensely. Since the year end
the name of the Foundation has been changed to
reflect changes within Lloyds Banking Group. We are
now called the Lloyds Bank Foundation for Northern
Ireland and will be operating with a new logo, however
it will be business as usual as far as the delivery of our
programmes is concerned. The Foundation has created
a special space for itself in Northern Ireland and will
continue to play an important tactical and strategic
part in the sector, to engage on the relevant issues and
to find creative ways to advance the cause of the many
small charities we were set up to support.
Mr Anthony Reynolds OBE
Chairman
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Crosskennan Lane
Animal Sanctuary
Based in Antrim, we are concerned with the
rescue and rehabilitation of animals, in particular
horses and ponies but also dogs, cats and
chickens, that have been abused and neglected.
Last year we were fortunate to receive a grant of
5,000 from Lloyds Bank Foundation towards a
part-time salary for a manager for our Animals
Helping People programme. This will help CLAS
to promote and provide the programme to a
greater number of groups and individuals.
Lyn Friel, Sanctuary Manager and Founder
02.
Executive
directors report
It is with great pleasure that I present my report for 2013

which proved to be another highly successful year for
the Foundation.
Compiling the content for our Annual Review is always
enjoyable affording as it does the opportunity to reflect
on all of our grant making activities of the previous
twelve months.
In a year which continued to bring uncertainty to
the sector, the Foundation has been able to provide
significant support for the most vulnerable in society
through financial and non-financial support. We know
that our contributions have made a significant difference
in communities throughout Northern Ireland and we are
confident that, following a new agreement with Lloyds
Banking Group, our valuable work in partnership with
the sector will continue.
Over the past year funding was awarded to a total of 527
organisations, across a number of funding programmes
throughout Northern Ireland and indeed internationally,
designed to respond to the needs of people who
are disadvantaged or disabled. As demand for funds
continues to grow we are looking more closely at
collaborative working both with charitable organisations
and other funders.
The funding of core costs remains a priority of the
Foundation and we are aware of the impact that modest
funding can make. We recognise too, however the
need for project and programme costs and we remain
responsive to the emerging needs of the sector and
committed to sharing both knowledge and learning.
As you read through the Annual Review, I hope you will
get a flavour for the depth and breadth of the
Foundations investment in the community. We are

constantly surprised by the desire for change on the
part of individuals who identify inequalities in their local
areas and who are determined to make a difference for
those who are often unable to advocate for themselves.
It is a privilege to work with the many thousands of
people throughout Northern Ireland who are at the
forefront of delivering positive change and in a modest
way, to be able to support the beneficiaries via the many
organisations we are in a position to support.
By highlighting each grant we made in 2013 we hope
that other organisations perhaps, not familiar with
the Foundation, will consider applying for financial
assistance, consistent with our overall objective of
supporting underfunded organisations for the benefit
of people who are disadvantaged or disabled.
Of course all of this work requires considerable energy
and I would like to express particular thanks to Mr Tony
Reynolds, the Foundations Chairman, whose enthusiasm
and wise counsel is greatly appreciated by the Trustees
and Officers alike. As ever the highest levels of governance
were adhered to by the Board of the Foundation who
are particularly generous with their time and skills. The
professionalism and enthusiasm of the Foundations
Officers complemented that of the Board, ensuring that
significant levels of funding were made available to those
who required it most.
With the support of Lloyds Banking Group we have been
able to effect real and positive change throughout this
time and we look forward to continuing to do so in the
years ahead.
Sandara Kelso-Robb
Executive Director
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Cookstown Rural
Community Transport
When a Passenger Assistant is on board it
benefits both the driver and passengers as
the driver can focus totally on driving and the
Passenger Assistant can observe and assist
passengers, this is particularly useful when
passengers are wheelchair users. For a lot
of our members getting out and about on
rural transport is their only outing and it is
reassuring for them to be able to have
a conversation on route.
03.
GRANTS OVERVIEW
Brigid Scullion, Manager
The Lloyds Bank Foundation supports

charitable organisations within
Northern Ireland to enable people,
who are disadvantaged or with
special needs, to participate actively
in their communities.
During 2013, Lloyds Bank Foundation for Northern
Ireland funded 527 grants across 8 Grant Programmes
giving a total grant spend of 1,634,888.
During 2013, we moved from hard copy applications
to online applications on our new bespoke Grant
Management system. We also renamed our Standard
Grant Programme the Community Grant Programme.
We received a total of 520 applications to our Community
Grant Programme and funded 339 organisations.
The average grant awarded in the Community Grant
Programme was 3,525. Applications were received
from across the sector including youth groups, older
peoples groups and organisations supporting those
with a disability, to name a few.
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The Community Grant Programme

Supported 339 organisations in 2013 to a total sum of
1,194,976.
Overall 527 grants were awarded across these 8 grant

programmes giving a grand spend of 1,634,888. The
table below shows the grants issued by geographic area:
The Creating Change Programme

2013 was year 6 of this 6 year programme with 16
organisations receiving their final payment, a total
sum of 155,509.
The International Programme
Funded 14 organisations a total of 95,395.
The Partnership Programme
The Advance Project received 73,495 to commence
the project.
The Special Initiatives Programme
Funded 2 organisations a total of 18,000.
Collaborative Programmes
AgeNI and CFNI received 17,765.
The Social Enterprise Programme
Funded 9 organisations to the value of 27,000.
The Matched Giving Scheme
The Matched Giving Scheme offers the opportunity for
employees of Lloyds Banking Group and Halifax staff
based in Northern Ireland to claim matched funding
from the Foundation up to 1,000. This can be claimed
against charity fundraising or volunteering time that
they have given to Northern Ireland based charities.
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Co. Antrim (Excluding Belfast)
76
14
Co. Armagh
30
Co. Down
50
Co. Fermanagh
12
Grants funded by Geographic Area

Belfast
Derry/Londonderry
Co. Londonderry
35
Co. Tyrone
54
10
International
14
UK Based
67
13
527
100
Total
In 2013, the Foundation approved 145 Matched Giving

applications with a total of 52,748 being issued to
charities in Northern Ireland through the programme.
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04.
creating change
The Creating Change Grant Programme
was designed by the Foundation in
response to the sectors needs. Many
small charities and community groups
had found life quite difficult with
the reduction in European funding in
recent years and often short term
funding is insufficient if organisations
are to develop strategically and
work towards sustainability. This new
programme was developed to address
these issues.
Photo: New Lodge Arts

Photo: Grove United Foodtball Club
19 organisations received 1,880,479 over six years

commencing in April 2008, which is the first time an
independent funding body in Northern Ireland has
offered such widespread long term funding to the
voluntary and community sector. The organisations are
approaching the end of their sixth year of funding and
significant outcomes have been achieved.
As the 6 year Creating Change Programme draws to

a close in March 2014, an external evaluation will be
undertaken which will provide learning on the Creating
Change Programme to be disseminated out across the
voluntary and community, and funding sectors.
Through the Creating Change Grant Programme

the Foundation has built a strong relationship with
the organisations benefiting from this programme,
providing financial and non-financial support including
training and networking opportunities to enable them
to develop and achieve their full potential. It was envisaged
that this grants-plus approach would strengthen and
energise the remaining 16 organisations which are in
receipt of funding in this pilot programme, and that
the Foundations investment will impact positively upon
future sustainability for those organisations and the
communities they are established to serve.
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ARC Healthy Living Centre

Year 6 Grant 9,959
Cathedral Youth Club

Year 6 Grant 10,000
ECF Links
Year 6 Grant 10,000
Kilkeel Parish Bridge Association

Year 6 Grant 10,000
The elderly and isolated of Irvinestown benefit from the

Chit Chat Worker funded through the grant, who calls
them each morning to check on their wellbeing.
The grant supports the Youth Worker who provides

a range of programmes and activities for the young
people of the Fountain area.
To support the development and expansion of youth

activities both within their centre and detached youth
outreach work on the streets in Lurgan.
The Project Leaders post is supported by the grant to

allow the continuation and development of their youth
activities, in particular their youth outreach and crosscommunity work.
Belfast South Community Resources

Year 6 Grant 10,000
CO3
Year 6 Grant 10,000
The Educational Shakespeare Company Ltd

Year 6 Grant 10,000
To allow them to continue to provide training and

educational programmes and a range of community
support in the Sandy Row area.
To provide support, training and mentoring to Chief

Officers in the third sector and in particular to those
overseeing smaller charities where less internal support
is available.
The grant allows the expansion of work with ex-offenders.

This includes training in a range of arts but particularly
the medium of film.
CAB Strabane
Year 6 Grant 10,000
To support a Telephone Advice Worker and allow the
increased use of telephone based advice to the largely
rural community.
Caring Breaks Ltd
Year 6 Grant 6,000
To part fund the Service Manager to expand and
diversify the activities available to adults with a learning
or physical disability, and to increase the respite offered
to their parents and carers.
Photo: Ballysillan Youth for Christ
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Cookstown and District Womens Group

Year 6 Grant 10,000
The grant supports the delivery of a range of training
programmes to lone parents, adults with learning
disabilities and ex-offenders.
Easilink Community Transport
Year 6 Grant 10,000
Easilink lease an additional minibus with their grant,
which enables the group to provide regular transport
to disadvantaged people in the Plumbridge and
Castlederg areas.
Homestart Antrim
Year 6 Grant 10,000
The grant enables Homestart Antrim to deliver group
and one to one services in the Ballyclare and Toomebridge
areas, providing support to mothers with young children.
Kids in Control
Year 6 Grant 10,000
The Artistic Director and Assistant Artistic Director are
both part funded through the Creating Change grant.
Financial support for these two roles, has allowed
KIC to nurture and develop key programmes. KIC is a
unique physical theatre and dance company in that it is
fully inclusive and cuts through traditional divisions of
physical and learning ability.
Learmount Community Development Group

Year 6 Grant 10,000
To maintain the huge variety of volunteer led services
now established for the rural community of Park and
its surrounding area.
Newbuildings Community
and Environmental Association
Year 6 Grant 10,000
The Administrator is funded to support delivery of a
range of programmes around health in the community
and to train and support Volunteer Health Workers.
Replay Productions
Year 6 Grant 10,000
The grant supports the post of the Executive Director
who oversees the development of issue specific
drama productions which are delivered in schools and
community settings.
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05.
international
grant programme
2013 saw the launch of the fifth
International Grants Programme.
Applications were invited from
Northern Ireland charities who
carry out work in poor communities
overseas or in developing countries.
Organisations could apply for grants
up to either 5,000 or 10,000. The
Foundation funded 14 organisations
a total of 95,395 for the one year
programme.
Centre for Global Education
9,400
Building upon a summer school delivered in the

Gaza Strip in 2012, the Centre for Global Education
in partnership with a Palestinian organisation aims to
deliver a sustainable community education project.
The purpose of the project is to build the capacity of
three grassroots community organisations in Gaza to
deliver education services to 450 children aged 7-12.
The project will supplement delivery of core areas of
the schools curriculum, provide psycho-social support
to children suffering from psychological problems
resulting from the ongoing conflict in Gaza, and
create a structured play environment using interactive
activities such as games, drawing, art, stories and poetry.
Christian Aid
9,000
The Livelihood Project supports families who have

recently returned home to Angola after the war. These
people arrive back in Angola with absolutely nothing.
The project enables them to start farming, rebuild
schools, wells and health centres. The project is
building on the success of previous work by Christian
Aid and their partner organisation ACM KS in the area.
It aims to reduce poverty and vulnerability through
increasing food security, health services and awareness
of land rights in five target villages.
Photo: Cookstown Rural Community Transport
Concern Worldwide
9,568
Fuel inefficient stoves in Afghanistan contribute to and

accelerate the depletion of trees, which are used as
fuel. This affects soil fertility and absorption capacity
of the soil, leading to increased risk of floods and lower
yields on crops. Inefficient stoves also give off a lot of
smoke, damaging health and the fuel required costs
a lot of time and money. This project will enable the
dissemination of fuel-efficient cookstoves amongst the
most extreme poor households in 7 villages in Tashkar
Province of Afghanistan. Artisans will be trained to build
the cookstoves and help them establish businesses
selling stoves and tandoor hoods. To ensure that the
most extreme poor can access the stoves they will also
provide funds for community self-help groups to loan
to the most extreme poor, which can be repaid slowly.
It will also help the groups establish social enterprises
to sustainably provide firewood by introducing quickgrowing trees and helping to establish woodlots.
Development Media Workshop
10,000
Through a previously funded project from Lloyds Bank

Foundation in Kopila Nepal, staff encountered many
women suffering from domestic abuse who were
psychologically damaged and homeless, being forced
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out of their family homes. In response Kopila Nepal has

established shelter accommodation for such women,
at its offices in Western District Nepal. The project
aim is to address the situation of abused women in
Nepal by: 1. Designing and implementing a bespoke
psychological counselling programme for domestically
abused women. 2. Assessing the income generation
capacity of women and providing appropriate income
generation support that will allow domestically-abused
women to be financially independent. 3. Planning and
conducting a participatory radio advocacy campaign
to raise awareness of domestic abuse, and challenge
attitudes in the local society where domestic abuse of
women is often ignored, and where women are often
blamed rather than being recognised as victims.
Disability Aid Abroad
5,000
The project will help strengthen the participation of

around 30 people from Belize with mental health issues
into employment as part of a support programme.
Those targeted generally have a low level of education,
poor social support and little or no employment history.
Some of the individuals involved in the programme
may be homeless and have limited prospects for their
future. Under the aid and assurance of a Link Worker,
these individuals will gain social support and training,
engaging in personal development programmes where
they will develop basic interview and employment skills,
gain work placements, and hopefully move forward into
sustained work.
Lifestart Foundation
6,500
This project is to improve child development outcomes

for children under 5 years old in the compounds of
Mazabuka, Zambia. The need for the project has been
clearly identified through a growing waiting list of families
who currently wish to avail of the programme in Mazabuka.
Lifestart has been delivering the programme to 400
families each year for the past nine years, however,
many of the families who were once receiving the
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programme were evicted when their compound was

demolished, and sent to different areas of the town.
The staff have anecdotal evidence from parents who
now feel they have been outcast and are anxious to reengage with the programme. Many other families who
have observed the benefits the programme can bring,
have asked to be considered for the programme when
places become available. By employing one full-time
Family Visitor, a further 100 families can be reached.
Livability
6,000
The project is to increase socio-economic inclusion

through entrepreneurship, enterprise and self or paid
employment for those who have obtained a spinal
cord injury (SCI). Livabilitys research indicates that
people with SCI in Nepal face challenges following
rehabilitation, 25% had died of complications and less
than half earned an income. The grant is to strengthen
Spinal Injury Rehabilitation Centres (SIRC) capacity to
facilitate greater numbers of people into employment
through appropriate vocational assessment, training
and innovative means to start a business or find paid
employment. This project will strengthen links with
government agencies, NGOs and the private sector to
increase inclusion of people with SCI into mainstream
vocational training, development and employment
programmes.
Meningitis Research Foundation
6,000
Health clinics in Malawi are unsystematic and

overcrowded. Patients queue from 5am to be seen for
anything from minor injury to convulsions or coma;
patients are treated on a first-come, first-served basis.
Many severely ill children wait hours to see a Health
Care Worker (HCW). Some do not survive the wait.
HCWs are overburdened with high numbers of patients
so often emergency signs can be missed. With previous
support from Lloyds Bank Foundation NI and other
funding, they have introduced a new triage tool using
a mobile phone which enables HCWs to quickly and
effectively identify and prioritise severely ill children,

making sure those in need of urgent medical care are
referred to hospital quickly. This was piloted in Blantyre,
Malawis second largest city, where 74 HCW have been
trained across five Primary Health Clinics. This tool is a
traffic-light system that allows HCWs to assess children
in the queue and assign them to red, amber or green
categories. Reds are classed as emergencies and seen
immediately by the doctor. Ambers and greens form
separate queues, with amber given priority over greens.
This grant is to implement this life-saving tool into two
new health clinics in the rural district, Chikhwawa.
Project Zambia
8,000
Mapepe Blessed Women is a project aimed at raising

the living standards within Mapepe Village, Zambia.
Their long-term target is a better educated and
healthier community which is self-sufficient. They
aim to achieve this by supporting projects which the
community as a whole can benefit from, primarily
in education and health. Prior to 2004, Mapepes
only school was a pipe school i.e. an open space
demarcated by asbestos pipes. Approximately 100
pupils attended school. They want to achieve high levels
of school attendance in their new school, built in 2004
by Project Zambia, and ensure good quality teaching
to achieve an educated population within Mapepe.
Mapepe is a relatively isolated community with very
limited access to healthcare. It has a high HIV/Aids rate
and consequently a high number of orphaned children.
They want to achieve a healthier population in Mapepe
by ensuring home based care and feeding programmes
for grandparent-headed families is available. A healthier
population can more effectively look after itself and
look to the future to improve both their personal and
communal welfare. They also want the village to become
increasingly self-sufficient which will be achieved by
injecting cash into income generating projects.
Romanian Partnership
5,000
There is no statutory support for young people when

they leave orphanages in Romania. Young people
leaving care have no friends outside the orphanage,
often no family, and are very badly equipped to face
life on their own. Without help many fail and drift
rapidly into crime and prostitution. The AfterCare
project supports them emotionally; helps them find a
place to live and a job; with money ; arranges medical
care and teaches them life skills ; and supports them
in becoming established in normal society . With the
help of volunteers Scut- the partnership organisation
of Romanian Partnership, also provides coaching in
educational subjects for national examinations and a
social programme. Scut also seeks ways of establishing
meaningful contact between young people in care and
young people not in the project who live with their
parents. This addresses prejudice and discrimination
against young people in care as well as promoting
personal development. Scut is running a Duke of
Edinburghs Award programme for 100 young people,
50 of whom are in care.
SERVE in Solidarity Ireland
4,287
Young Africa Namibia are committed to providing

accessible and effective accredited Technical Vocational
Education & Training ( TVET ) to underprivileged young
people. In addition to technical skills, students receive
holistic life skills training and business skills training.
Young Africa Namibia are currently in the process
of establishing a new project in the community of
Kuisebmund, Walvis Bay. The aim of this project is to
establish a Solar Technology Department. Initially, it
will operate from a temporary location whilst Young
Africa (YA) secures a site from the local government
for the construction of a permanent Skills Centre.
The Solar Technology Department will consist of two
10ft storage containers roofed with 27 Photovoltaic
Systems, connected to 9 inverters. The Department
will be run according to YAs proven Franchise Model.
The Department will provide training to 45 unemployed

and unskilled young people annually. Graduates will
become familiar with a range of solar products and
will be equipped with the skills to install and maintain
solar technology in businesses and households.
Graduates will be supported by YA to find employment/
internships/further training in solar technology.
Tools for Solidarity
5,000
The projects overall aim is to improve the skill base

of local tailors in Tanzania, to increase their income
generation ability and to provide backup maintenance
support for the project. The project will train 250
tailors to enhance their economic outlook by providing
training in product design and finishing skills. In order
to provide technical backup and support to tailors (when
they return to their villages) 6 people will be trained
as sewing machine mechanics. This is a 6 week long
course developed and run by the centre in Tanzania. On
completion of training, a kit of tools and a bicycle will
also be provided.
War on Want NI (WOWNI)
Zomba Action Project
5,000
The project will enable the construction of a care centre

for approximately 100 orphans and other vulnerable
children in Manyungwa Village in Zomba. The centre
will comprise of two classrooms, an office/store, an
outside kitchen and an outside pit latrine. The villagers
have already agreed a suitable site for the Centre. The
grant will also enable the establishment of a community
garden to grow maize and fruit and vegetables to
provide food for the children. They will build a brick
lined well and pump for the Centre and provide
mosquito nets for the children. The well will provide
clean water for the children and villagers and irrigation
water for the garden. Starter seeds and plants will be
provided for the garden and pots and utensils for the
kitchen, together with starter bags of maize meal for
food until the crops are harvested. They hope to achieve
improved well-being for the children in terms of health,
nutrition and basic nursery education.
6,640
65 % of the population live below the poverty line in

Malawi with most living in rural areas, dependant
on agriculture. According to vulnerability studies
conducted by WOWNI in the Machinga district in the
Southern region, chronic poverty, food insecurity,
environmental degradation, increasingly erratic
weather conditions and prevalence of HIV were major
vulnerability factors. The project will improve livelihood
security through livestock and agricultural production
using simple irrigation to mitigate against climate
change and reduce poverty levels of participating
farmer groups and their families through the sale of
produce. Citrus fruit growing at household level will
help secure longer term agricultural production and
Village Savings and Loan schemes will be established.
The project will be implemented by WOWNI partner
local NGO Youth Impact and the five farmers groups.
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06.
The Matched
Giving scheme
This scheme is open to any Lloyds

Banking Group employees based in
Northern Ireland, including group
subsidiaries and it provides an excellent
opportunity to increase funds for
local charities from jumble sales to
parachute jumps. Group employees
can claim up to 1,000 a year to match
funds raised or hours volunteered
for registered charities that support
disadvantaged or disabled people
throughout Northern Ireland.
In 2013 there were 145 approved claims made with the

average claim being for 364 and thanks to the energy
and commitment of the staff of Lloyds Banking Group
52,748 was given to a wide range of organisations
working throughout Northern Ireland including Lloyds
Banking Group Charity of the Year, Alzheimers Society.
Fundraising
125 approved claims were made by staff members
for a variety of fundraising activities.

43,812 was given to charities by the Foundation.
An additional 75,817 was raised by the employees

bringing the overall amount the organisations benefited
from to 128,565.
Top Five Charities Supported through Matched Giving
Alzheimers Society
Cancer Research UK
Marie Curie Cancer Care
Save the Children
Forum for Action on Substance Abuse
Volunteering
20 approved claims were made by staff members
who volunteered their time.

1,117 hours were matched.
8,936 was given to charities by the Foundation.
Photo: Friends of Edgecumbe
matched giving scheme 19
07.
Collaboration
Grants
Over the last couple of years, the
Trustees invested in a number of
collaboration grants to support
specific areas within the voluntary
and community sector. During 2013,
3 specific areas were supported:
Philanthropy
Lower capacity older peoples groups
Social Enterprise
Giving Northern Ireland

A new charitable organisation dedicated to the
development of philanthropy in Northern Ireland
was officially launched in April 2013. Giving Northern
Ireland, which was co-created and co-funded by the
Foundation and The Atlantic Philanthropies, will work
independently to encourage more strategic giving at
a time when many funding sources for the sector are
in decline.
The organisation seeks to champion Philanthropy/
Giving in Northern Ireland, focusing on High Net
Worth Individuals (HNWIs) and Corporates and to build
a strong independent voice for giving by working in
collaboration, co-operation and partnership.
Primary strategic objectives agreed by a carefully

selected Board include the following:
By innovating and engaging directly with HNWIs
and their professional advisors to ignite an increasing
culture of giving in Northern Ireland.
To research, understand and provide leadership to
energise giving in Northern Ireland focusing on
professional bodies, business organisations and
corporates.
As an independent voice to support and cement the
efforts of organisations by taking a co-ordinating role
on giving activity in Northern Ireland.
By use of selective research projects, carefully
targeted events and training, to build the skills
base with which to grow major donations and more
strategic giving.
A range of initiatives has been created to underpin the
strategic objectives, the impact of which will be closely
measured with a view to rolling out a programme
of work in collaboration with the private, public and
voluntary sectors.
Photo: Ballysillan Youth for Christ
Collaboration Grants 21
The Wash Basin Foodbank

We would not be able to run the foodbank
without such generous grants from foundations
like Lloyds Bank Foundation for Northern
Ireland; we are very thankful for their kind
support. Last year foodbank fed 764 people
of which 344 were children. Also we have
supported our local frontline services reaching
hundreds of people in the surrounding area.
We are very grateful for their support!
Mandy Frew, Volunteer Manager
First Steps to Funding - Capacity Building for Older

Peoples Groups
The quality of applications for funding received by the
Foundation varies greatly. The Foundation staff agreed
that the sector most in need of additional support in
understanding funding applications, was the more
informal older peoples groups. These groups tend to
be voluntary run by older people, for older people and
many of the members of the committees will have had
no previous experience with funding applications and
either miss out on funding due to poor applications or
fear of funding applications.
AgeNI supported by Community Foundation NI
were funded to deliver a 2 year training programme,
commencing in 2012, to reach these lower capacity
older peoples groups, to give them as the programme
title suggests, their First Steps to Funding. The
partnership was funded 72,905 over 2 years to locate,
recruit and provide training to those harder to reach
older peoples groups across Northern Ireland. The
training would be provided in three stages, and groups
could come in depending on their level,
1) Preparing and Planning for Small Grants
2) Making the Approach
Taking the Fear out of Funding
3) Understanding the Grant Application
In addition, a small number of Master classes were held
for Support Workers to give them the skills to work with
lower capacity older peoples groups in their own area.
By the end of the programme, the project had exceeded
the 57 courses to be delivered and the target of 812
participants all representing older peoples groups with
an income of less than 20,000. Preliminary evaluation
has shown that a number of groups who have gone
through the training programmes have submitted
successful funding applications for their organisations.
The success of the programme is due to continue, as

Comic Relief having realised the difference this project
was making, has agreed to fund the First Steps to
Funding Programme for another two years.
Social Enterprise
Larne Enterprise Development Company - (Ledcom)
works along with Invest NI to support new start up
social enterprise projects. Only those social enterprise
projects which have an export element to their work
are entitled to financial support from Invest NI. The
collaboration grant has allowed those start up social
enterprise businesses that have a Northern Ireland only
remit to apply for a start up grant of up to 3,000 to
support their work. Applications are only received by the
Foundation once the business plan has been reviewed
and approved by Ledcom.
Resource Centre Derry

Towards marketing costs, and equipment costs for
4rs Recycling.
Resurgam Community Development Trust
Towards marketing, uniforms, and SIA Licenses for
Resurgam Security Services.
Upperlands Community Development Ltd
Towards additional equipment for the Old Mill
Coffee Shop.
Vineyard Compassion
Towards marketing and equipment costs for their
monthly Farmers Market and Craft Fair.
During 2013, 9 organisations from across Northern

Ireland benefitted from this programme to the value of
27,000.
GLOW
Towards stock and marketing costs associated with
starting Vintage Glow.
Greysteel Community Enterprises
Towards a Booking System for The Vale Centre for their
3G Pitch.
Laganview Enterprise Centre
Towards software, training, and IT equipment for
Laganside Business Services.
Leafair Community Association
Towards the Booking System for the 3G pitch.
Rathlane
Towards polythene tunnels, registration fees, lease and
a risk assessment for Rathlane Care Farm.
Collaboration Grants 23
Replay Productions Ltd

Lloyds Bank Foundation, Creating Change
funding, has had a hugely positive impact for
Replay. During the period, we are thrilled to have
established a 3 year programme dedicated to
providing work for children with Profound and
Multiple Learning Disabilities (PMLD),
and training for their teachers.
Fiona Bell, Operations Manager
08.
COMMUNITY Grant
Programme
The Community Grant Programme is
the key grant programme within the
Foundation, with 4 closing dates in
January, April, July, and October.
During 2013, we moved from hard copy to online applications
with our new bespoke Grant Management system. We also
renamed our Standard Grant Programme to the Community
Grant Programme. We received a total of 520 applications
to our Community Grant Programme and funded 339
organisations. Applications were received from across the
sector including youth groups, older peoples groups and
organisations supporting those with a disability, to name a few.
Of the applications received, 339 organisations were supported
in 2013 to a total sum of 1,194,976, meaning the average grant
awarded in the Community Grant Programme was 3,525.
Community Grants 2013 by Programme area
No.
Community Grants 2013 by age
233
69
Infants (0-4)
26
Children (5-15)
20
Young Adults (16-24)
25
22
Adults (25-60)
11
Cultural Enrichment
28
Education and Training
21
339
100
180
53
Advice
Community
20
Disability
37
11
Promotion of Health
31
Civic Responsibility
Total
Mixed Age Groups
No.
Ageing Population
Total
24
339
100
COMMUNITY grant programme 25
Organisation Grant Amount
The 174 Trust

To assist the Disability Support Worker and
Disability Co-ordinator posts.
Allergy NI
Towards the salary of the Chief Executive.
4,000
Army Cadet Force Association

4,000
Towards the Outreach project in Northern Ireland.
4,830
Bowel Cancer UK
Towards the Health Promotion Officers salary.
CAB - Antrim District

To support the Money Advice Worker post.
5,000
An Droichead Ltd
A contribution towards refurbishment costs.
3,000
Arts & Disability Forum (ADF)

Towards core costs.
4,000
Ballymena Inter Ethnic Forum

Towards a Polish Bi-lingual Advocate salary
and core costs.
4,083
CAB - ARDS
Towards the Money Advice project.
5,000
Angling First Ltd

Towards rent, insurance and electricity costs.
4,000
Arts for All

Towards running costs of the organisation.
4,500
Ballymoney Community Resource Centre

Towards the Causeway Disability Forum project.
4,500
ArtsEkta
To support the Sanskriti project.
2,500
CAB - Carrickfergus
Towards the Telephone Neighbourhood
Link Advisers salary.
5,000
The Brain Injury Foundation

3,000
Towards venue hire, transport and catering costs.
Bridge Accessible Transport
Towards the Access For All project.
5,000
Atlas Womens Centre

A Day In The Life Of project.
4,300
Cairn Lodge Amateur Boxing Club

To support core costs.
1,170
Autism NI
Towards tutor costs.
3,300
Camowen Outreach
To purchase a boiler and board games.
Ballee and District Community Group

Towards two blocks of the Ballee Cubs,
Cats and Cheetahs Fitness Programme.
2,100
(Cans) Metalbox Pensioners Club

To provide trips for the members.
4,000
900
Accept Care (Social Firms) Ltd

4,500
Towards a Cook for the Newtownards Daisies cafe.
Acceptable Enterprises (Larne) Ltd
Towards running costs.
4,000
Antrim Community Trust

Contribution towards three inflatables.
4,000
Antrim Enterprise Agency

To support the Antrim Biz Club.
3,354
Accord Belfast Centre

To support project costs.
4,000
Appleby Careers project Ltd

4,734
Action for Community Transformation Initiative

Towards the Creative Space Project.
4,000
The Appleby Trust

Towards running costs and travel for the
Supported Employment Project.
4,300
TAG (The Active Group)

Towards the salary of the Co-ordinator.
ADD NI Limited
Towards facilitator fees.
4,000
Ardglass Development Association

Eveyones Club running costs.
2,800
Age Concern Causeway

Towards salary costs.
4,000
Ardinariff Historical & Cultural Society

To support the Ardinariff Community project.
3,000
Aghalee Village Hall

To purchase protective equipment for the
Taekwondo club.
1,000
Armagh Child Contact Centre

Volunteer support.
3,802
5,080
Aisling Centre
Towards the centre Co-ordinators post.
5,000
Armagh Rural Transport

Towards the Passenger Assistant project.
All Set Cross Cultural Project

To provide a programme of music and poetry
workshops with children in two Special
Education Schools.
3,360
Armoy Community Association

To purchase IT equipment.
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1,315
Ballyhornan and District

Community Association
Towards transport and group leaders.
Ballykeel Pentecostal Church
To purchase a heating system for the main hall.
Ballysillan Youth For Christ Community

Drop In Centre
Towards the Drop-In Centre &
Workshops for young people.
5,000
Balnamore Community Association

Towards core costs.
2,760
Belfast Interface Project

Towards the development of a strategic plan.
3,000
Belfast Library and Society for Promoting

Knowledge (Linen Hall Library)
1,140
To support the Mental Health Awareness project.
2,000
Belfast Lough Sailability

5,000
4,000
Black Box Trust

To support the Black Box Crescent Club.
3,600
Ballymena Area Childrens Contact Service

4,000
Towards the salary of the Volunteer Co-ordinator.
Bo-Peeps Playgroup
Towards project costs.
500
Ballymena Club for the Hard of Hearing

To provide a Lip Reading course.
2,100
Bogside and Brandywell Health Forum

4,500
Towards a Tearmann Mental Health Programme.
Ballymena Family & Addicts Support Group

To support the Dream project.
3,288
Bovalley Community Association

2,500
A contribution towards the Older Workers salary.
Brain Injury Matters N.I.

(previously known as Headway Belfast)
Towards rent for the Well-Being Centre.
4,000
5,000
3,000
British Association for Adoption

and Fostering - NI
2,450
An event to promote and recognise adoption in NI.
British Deaf Association (Northern Ireland)
Towards general expenses and overheads.
5,000
Care in Crisis
5,000
British Youth Council

Towards the UK Young Parliament Project
(costs in Northern Ireland only).
4,000
Carers Matter
4,000
Bruiser Theatre Company

1,510
To support a cross community play The Caucasian
Chalk Circle.
Building Ballysally Together
Towards the salary of the Cafe Worker.
4,000
Building Communities Limited

1,800
To fund the Story Board project with two groups.
Burnfoot Community Development Association 2,500
To support the Burnfoot Summer Scheme.
Bushmills Residents and Environmental Forum
Carleton Street Community

Development Association
To purchase new chairs and towards rent.
4,000
Carn Media
Towards the Intergenerational project
in Ballinascreen.
3,000
Carnany Community Association

To support the running costs of the
community house.
3,000
Carrick Hill Residents Association

Towards heating costs.
4,820
4,000
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Carrickfergus Older Peoples Forum

To provide activities, room hire and a trip to
Crumlin Road Gaol.
Cheers Youth Centre

Towards rent, heat and light costs of the
youth centre.
4,000
Colin Community Counselling Limited

To purchase IT equipment, maintenance and
website costs.
2,660
Crosskennan Lane Animal Sanctuary

Towards the part-time salary of a
Programme Manager.
Disabled Christian Fellowship Holiday Homes 4,800

To purchase sofas and chairs.
Dundrum Cross Community Playgroup

1,000
To support core costs and activities for children.
Community Circus Lisburn

Towards rent and tutor costs.
3,000
Crown Jesus Ministries

2,000
Towards the salary of the Klass Kids Co-ordinator.
Dungannon Senior Gateway Club

Towards activities and trips.
3,500
5,000
Donagh Wee Folk Playschool

Towards the organisations core costs.
1,000
Children and Parents and Autism

Towards sessional workers.
Community Dialogue
Creative Dialogue Toolbox project.
4,000
4,000
Dunloy Development Association

4,000
4,000
Downpatrick Group Scouting Ireland

Towards the Development Officers post.
4,000
Community Restorative Justice Newry/Armagh

To cover volunteer expenses.
Cunamh
To provide six counselling sessions, mileage
and room hire.
Dungiven Celtic Youth Football Club

To contribute to 3G facility hire.
3,000
1,000
Down Community Arts

Youth Drugs and Alcohol Programme.
3,000
Children with Cystic Fibrosis Dream Holidays

To fund a one week respite break for a CF
family from Northern Ireland.
Damask Community Outreach

Towards a sessional worker and room hire for
the Advice project.
4,140
Downpatrick Visually Impaired Persons Group 2,000

Dunnaman Childrens Centre

Towards a part-time Centre Workers salary.
4,000
Deanby Youth Centre

Deanby Youth Centre Provision project.
5,000
Downs Syndrome Association

To support the youth club.
3,960
E2A Enable 2 Act Inclusive Theatre Group

Towards rent costs.
3,000
Derg Valley Development Association

Towards core costs.
1,000
Dramability
UpsideDown Roadshows.
3,800
Eagle Glen Community Partnership Ltd

Towards the salary for a part-time Caretaker.
4,000
Dromboughil Community Association

Towards a Caretakers post.
4,000
East Belfast Community Counselling

Towards the Chief Executives salary.
5,000
Drumellan Community Association

Towards the Development Workers salary.
5,000
5,000
Drummond Centre Project Ltd

To support the Donemana Youth project.
2,800
East Belfast Independent Advice Centre

Towards the Mental Health Advocacy Workers
post and associated running costs.
3,000
DU Dance NI
Towards performance costs.
2,000
The Edge
Towards the Associative Youth Workers salary.
Empowering Women in the Community
Towards salary/tutor costs.
4,000
Enable NI Limited
Towards the Directors salary.
5,000
Carrowshee Park/Sylvan Hill

Community Association
Towards activities and equipment.
1,000
4,920
Carryduff Amateur Boxing Club

Towards rent and equipment.
4,000
CAST Ministries
Towards core costs.
3,000
Castle Youth Club

Towards core costs for the youth club.
1,420
Cathedral Quarter Trust Culture Night Belfast

Belfast Cultural Night.
3,000
Catherwoodstown Seniors
Towards core costs.
750
Causeway U3A
Towards venue/equipment hire and ingredients
for a healthy eating programme.
390
Cavehill Antrim Road Regeneration

To support core costs.
5,000
Centre for Health and Wellbeing

3,600
Towards therapy costs for 30 disadvantaged people.
Challenge for Youth
Towards core costs.
5,000
Christian Guidelines Ltd

To purchase a computer and laptop.
800
Churches Voluntary Work Bureau

North West Volunteer Centre Quality
Improvement Plan.
3,210
Churchtown Community Association

Towards the salary of the Development Worker.
5,000
Citizens Of Senior Years (COSY) Club

Towards the Development Workers post.
5,000
Clann Eireann Youth Club

Engage and revamp of Clan Eireann Youth Club.
4,980
Cloughmills Community Youth Club

Towards facilitators, running costs and activities
for Cloughmills Youth Club.
3,354
Clubs for Young People

Towards the Citizens project.
5,000
Connswater Community & Leisure Services Ltd 4,000

Towards the Health Development project.
Conway Education Centre
3,500
To purchase IT hardware and maintenance contract.
Coleraine Academy
4,580
Towards the Community Engagement Programme.
Cookstown and Dungannons Womens Aid

Towards stress and trauma support.
5,000
Cookstown and Magherafelt Volunteer Centre 4,000

Towards the Make a Difference project.
Cookstown Rural Community Transport
Towards the salary of the Passenger Assistant.
5,000
Craigavon Intercultural Programme

5,000
Towards the running costs of the Portadown Centre.
Creating Space Limited
4,250
Creggan Education & Research Services

An Creagn Arts Programme.
5,000
Derganagh Training and

Towards the cost of purchasing audio-visual
equipment.
5,000
2,000
Derry Healthy Cities

Towards the Healthier Working Lives project.
4,200
Disability Equality Group NI

To support rent, running costs and set up costs
of a community office.
3,000
Disability Sports NI
3,500
Towards the development of an Ulster Boccia League.
Dundonald Sea Cadets

2,500
Towards the Duke of Edinburgh Award, equipment
and a double stack road trailer.
Enagh Youth Forum

To support the salary of the Youth Worker.
5,000
Fountain Dance Association

3,500
To provide dance classes for people with disabilities.
Glencolin Residents Association

Towards the Welfare Advice service.
5,000
Headway Newry
The Photography project.
3,000
In Your Space NI
Towards the salary of the Development Officer.
Erne East Community Partnership Ltd

Towards the youth drop-in centre.
3,000
Foyle Down Syndrome Trust

Towards Life Skills Coaches.
3,600
GortKids Afterschool Club

Towards training costs.
1,000
5,000
Jack Horner Community Playgroup

Towards rent costs.
Eye Feel Good

4,000
To purchase equipment and the cost of a worker to
deliver a boot camp in schools in disadvantaged areas.
Friends of Christian Brothers Secondary School

Towards staff costs, food and dumbells for
the Calorie Counters Programme.
1,000
High Kirk Social Action in our Community

Towards the salary of a Community
Outreach Worker.
Larne Community Care Centre

Towards operational costs and the
summer programme.
2,500
The Kairos Centre

4,000
Hillstown Rural Community Group

To replace floor coverings and window blinds.
4,000
1,967
Holy Trinity Youth Centre

Multimedia Life Issues and Choices project.
4,000
2,500
4,000
4,000
4,829
4,830
Fermanagh Citizens Advice Bureau

Towards the salary costs of the Advocacy
Tribunal project.
6,000
Friends of Mitchell House

To provide music therapy sessions.
Home Start - Lisburn/Colin

Towards the Family Support Worker and the
Administrative Support posts.
4,600
Family Mediation NI
To purchase new IT equipment.
Friends of Glenveagh
Towards transport for transition development
and leisure activities.
Holywood Family Trust

Towards the salary of an Administration Officer.
Kids Together West Belfast

Towards the Support Workers salary.
4,000
Family Caring Trust

Towards the Administrators salary and creation
of an online shop.
Friends of Edgcumbe
To provide activities for people with dementia
and their carers.
Kids Inn After School Club

Towards rent costs.
2,400
Factory Community Forum

Towards rent costs.
Fermanagh Womens Aid

Heading Towards Healthy Relationships project.
4,950
Galbally Youth & Community Association

Towards core running costs.
3,500
First Steps Womens Centre

Towards the salary, training, postage and
telephone costs of the Money Advisor.
4,013
Galliagh Womens Group

Towards the Our Health is our Wealth project.
Focus on Family Nuturing and

Development Centre
Towards the salary of the Centre Manager.
Forthspring Inter Community Group
Towards artist costs, entrance fees, transport
costs and art materials.
3,000
Greater Village Regeneration Trust

Towards the Well Womens Group,
Womens Shed project.
Green Elves Playgroup
Towards core costs.
Green Shoot Productions
Education and Outreach Programme.
Fuse Youth Ministry

4,000
Towards facility hire, transport and project costs.
4,000
Greater Shantallow Community Arts

4,000
Towards the Art Reaching Communities project.
2,500
500
3,500
Greenisland Football Club

4,800
Towards IFA and First Aid Training and equipment.
Greysteel Playgroup
Towards the running costs of the playgroup.
1,500
4,000
4,820
Grove United Football Club

Towards IFA coaching costs, facility hire
and equipment.
Garvagh Development Trust

5,000
Gleann Amateur Boxing Club

To purchase equipment.
Glebeside Community Association
Home Start Down District

5,000
Towards the salary of the Ballynahinch Organiser.
Home-Start Causeway
To contribute towards project costs.
5,000
Home-Start North Belfast

Towards volunteer and running costs.
5,000
Hands that Talk

4,000
Towards the Training and Resource Officers salary.
Home-Start Omagh
Towards volunteer support.
2,650
Happy Days Playgroup

1,500
To purchase new flooring, repairs and admin costs.
Hope 4 U Foundation
To purchase restaurant furniture.
3,500
4,850
Horn of Africa Peoples Aid Northern Ireland

Towards the Sports Crossover Programme.
2,000
3,980
Have your Tomorrows (HURT)

Towards the salary of the receptionist.
5,000
Kilcooley Womens Education

& Development Group
Towards the salary of a Playgroup Assistant.
4,000
500
5,000
Killeeshil Community Centre Association

Clean Er Up Project.
3,750
Kingdom Life
Towards a part-time Co-ordinators salary
and overheads.
5,208
Kings Fellowship Bangor

To contribute to the installation of a lift to
provide disabled access.
5,000
Knockmore Community Association

4,000
Towards activities, equipment and running costs.
LArche Belfast
Towards the Co-ordinators salary.
5,000
4,000
Larne Community Development Project

4,200
Towards the running costs for the Resource Centre.
Lifestart Foundation
Towards the Mid Ards project core costs.
4,000
Ligoniel Amateur Boxing Club

Towards the Healthy Choices project.
4,600
Ligoniel Family Centre

Towards the salary of the Project Worker.
4,550
Ligoniel Improvement Association

Towards the salary of the
part-time Administration Worker.
5,000
LILAC Cancer Support

5,000
Contribution towards the Client Support Officer.
Lincoln Courts Youth & Community Association
Towards the Youth Workers salary.
5,000
Lisanelly Regeneration Group

Towards running costs of GK House.
2,000
Lisburn Downtown Centre

Towards the salary of the Centre Co-ordinator.
4,000
Lisburn Peoples Support Project

To support volunteer training costs.
4,000
Listening And Talking Can Help (LATCH)

Towards counselling sessions for young people
in crisis.
5,000
North Down Boxing and Fitness Club

Towards rent.
4,000
Parents Education as Autism Therapists

4,000
Raidi Filte Teo

Towards the rent of the training/meeting room.
North Star Basketball Club

3,000
Participation and the Practice of Rights

3,450
Rainbow Child and Family Centre

5,000
North West Football Centre

Towards the post of a Community Sports
Development Officer.
4,800
The PBC Foundation

Support for Life: Northern Ireland Project.
5,000
Ramoan Friendship Group

Towards the provision of healthy meals.
3,000
5,000
4,000
1,000
3,860
Omagh Independent Advice Services

Towards training costs.
3,200
Peatlands Playgroup
The Vertical Garden project.
Rascals Community Playgroup

Towards trips, gardening tools/outdoor clothing
and core costs.
1,000
Oasis Caring In Action

A contribution towards sensory equipment.
Peace Players International

Towards the Advanced Leadership Programme.
1,000
4,000
5,000
Omagh Volunteer Centre

Towards the running costs of the
Good Morning project.
5,000
Phoenix Basketball Club

Rascals Playstation
2,240
PIPS Suicide Prevention Ireland

Towards core costs.
4,000
Rathcoole Churches Community Group

Towards tutor fees and equipment.
4,736
Pomeroy Afterschool
Towards the salary of the part-time
Afterschool Worker.
3,500
React
Reminiscence Network NI
Towards the Moving Through Life project.
2,500
Pomeroy Preschool Playgroup

Towards core costs.
1,500
Richmount Rural Community Association

4,200
Towards Older Peoples project - Luncheon Club.
Portadown Cares
To purchase IT Hardware for the Senior
Surfers Project.
2,895
Rural Support
The VOICES project.
4,450
3,760
S.P.R.I.N.G. Trust LTD

Towards the Project Leaders salary.
4,500
The Pregnancy Resource Centre

To assist with project costs.
5,000
Race Against Multiple Sclerosis

5,000
Sandy Row Amateur Boxing Club

To purchase first aid and boxing equipment.
Little Acorns Playgroup

To purchase literacy resources.
1,000
4,000
Naiscoil an Traonaigh
Towards insurance costs.
Little Flower Playgroup

Towards the running costs of the playgroup.
1,500
Maiden City Soccer Academy

Contribution towards facility hire and first
aid courses.
5,000
Naiscoil Mhachaire Ratha

Towards core costs.
1,000
Living Hope
Towards the Youth project.
4,000
Manor Street / Cliftonville Community Centre

Towards the Positive Action project.
1,000
The National Deaf Childrens Society (NDCS)

To support the salaries of the Family Officers.
4,000
Loughgiel Community Association

Towards the Gateway to Progression project.
3,000
Meigh Community Pre-School

5,000
New Belfast Community Arts Initiative trading

as Community Arts Partnership
Towards core costs.
3,210
New Lodge Duncairn Community

Health Partnership
Towards the Health and Me project.
Loughmacrory Community
Towards core costs.
Loughshore Care Partnership
The Good Morning Loughshore project.
Loughshore Playgroup
To purchase new resources for the playgroup.
3,000
5,000
750
Love for Life

A contribution towards vehicle costs.
3,000
Love Hockey Ireland

5,000
Lower Falls Newstart Project

The Learning Through Games project.
5,000
Lurgan Carers Association

Towards the Time for Me project.
3,000
Maghery District Hall Committee

To purchase kitchen equipment.
2,500
Mid Ulster Association for

Counselling & Psychotherapy
Towards rent, volunteer training and
volunteer expenses.
Mid Ulster Womens Network
Towards salaries and core costs.
Minority Focus
1,750
To fund one edition of the Minority Focus magazine.
Molly and Mia Foundation
4,500
Towards the salary of an Administration Assistant.
Mornington Community Project
To support the ongoing delivery of projects at
the centre during the period of construction of
the new building.
5,000
Myasthenia Gravis Association

Towards the Regional Organisers post.
Newry Muay Thai

To purchase equipment for Muay Thai classes.
Newtownbutler Playgroup Ltd
NI at Play
Towards the Play Co-ordinators post.
Mount St Catherines Out of School Club

4,500
A contribution towards an Assistant Leaders salary.
Moygashel Residents Association
Towards the Tea Club.
Newhill Football Club

Towards coach qualification costs, facility hire
and study skills seminars.
976
5,000
Niamh Louise Foundation

Towards the costs of a Family Crisis Worker.
North Belfast Womens Initiative
and Support Project
Towards therapy costs for women.
750
3,000
3,000
The Open Door Centre

To purchase IT Equipment.
1,500
Outburst Arts Festival

To support the Outburst Outreach project.
3,000
Owenkillew Parent & Toddlers

1,000
Towards rent, insurance, activities and day trips.
5,000
The Oxygen Therapy Centre

1,468
Panda Cross Community Playgroup

Towards equipment costs.
1,500
Parents and Friends of Glenside Community

To assist with project costs.
3,000
3,000
608
3,000
2,715
SAVIA
To assist with rent and running costs.
3,000
South Lough Neagh Regeneration Association 3,000

Strabane Community Unemployed Group

To support rent and running costs.
3,250
Tiny Tots Pre-School Playgroup

Towards rent and chairs.
1,500
The Wider Circle

The Healing from Trauma project.
4,500
Youth Link NI
Towards the tutor costs.
5,000
Scotch Street Youth Club

Towards rent for Scotch Street Youth and
Family Centre.
5,000
Spectrum Centre Trust

Community at Spectrum Project.
3,360
Strabane Ethnic Community Association

3,000
Towards the Youth Culture and Diversity Programme.
Tirgan Community Association

3,000
Willowfield Parish Church

Towards the Mens Support Group project.
5,000
Youth Lyric
East Belfast Peaceline Schools project.
5,000
Strangford Parent & Toddler Group

Towards cookery, fitness and consumables.
1,500
Tobin Youth Centre (Moortown) Ltd

4,160
Zero-8-Teen
Towards staff costs for the Rainbow Club.
1,104
Tools for Solidarity Downpatrick

Tool Training Repair Workshop project.
4,000
2,500
Strathfoyle Womens Activity Group

To provide courses for women.
3,250
Shine FM Ltd
Towards core costs.
St Johns Scout Group Portadown

To purchase a tent.
Willowfield Parish Community

Association
Towards the Winter Warmer project.
3,100
4,500
St Agnes Amateur Boxing Club

To purchase equipment and running costs.
4,600
Seacourt Print Workshop

To purchase an electric printing press.
4,900
Shopmobility Magherafelt
5,000
St Oliver Plunkett Football Club

Towards coach training and equipment.
Twins and Multiple Births Association

Towards the health and support packs for
expectant parents of multiple birth babies.
2,100
2,500
St Malachys Youth Centre

Towards the Youth Counselling Service.
5,000
Shopmobility Lisburn
Towards the Scheme Co-ordinators salary.
3,887
1,000
The Skyway Club

2,500
To assist with the costs of the Animated Musical.
Stepping Stones Cross Community Playgroup

A contribution towards running costs and
Early Years Specialist support.
Verbal Arts Centre

Book and a Boogie project.
1,500
Slieve Donard Visually Impaired Persons Group

A contribution towards running costs.
1,000
Storehouse NI
To assist with running costs of the foodbank.
6,000
The Vine Centre

Towards the Money Management for
Parents project.
4,000
Small Steps Adult Education Group

Towards the salary of the Shop Manager.
3,500
The Void Art Centre

Core running costs.
Smashing Times Theatre Company Ltd

Acting for the Future project.
4,000
SOS Bus NI
Towards the School Education Empowerment
Programme.
4,300
South East Fermanagh Foundation

Towards the community allotments and
Youth Empowerment project.
3,500
Strabane and Lifford Lesbian Gay Bisexual

and Transgender Group
Towards allotments, volunteer expenses and
training costs.
Stress Time Educations Progress

Support (STEPS)
Sugar and Spice Early Years Setting
Towards core costs and play resources.
Sunshine Playgroup
Towards a childrens outing.
2,000
Strabane and Lifford Womens Centre

Towards the Inclusion and Education for
Womens in Strabane project.
4,000
Strabane Community Project

Towards the Foodbank Co-ordinators salary.
6,000
2,500
1,500
500
5,500
Windmill Integrated Primary School

2,500
Windyhall Community Association

3,500
Women of St Ergnats and

Moneyglass Community
To purchase tables and chairs.
920
Womens Aid - Causeway

Children and Young Peoples project.
5,000
Woodlands Pre-School Centre

Towards core and equipment costs.
1,500
YMCA - Carrickfergus
PAKT (Parents and Kids Together) programme.
5,000
Superstars Club
Towards the project costs for people with
learning disabilities.
4,000
Survivors of Trauma
3,293
Voluntary Service Lisburn

To purchase equipment for the workshop.
The Talent Tribe Circle

Towards computer costs.
2,073
The Wash Basin Limited

Ballymena Foodbank project costs.
5,000
YMCA - Greenhill
To purchase a box trailer.
5,000
Tinderbox Theatre Company

To provide workshops for drama skills.
3,000
The Welcome Project

5,013
Lurgan YMCA
Towards the salary of the CEO and Assistant.
5,000
Tiny Tots Community Playgroup

1,000
To contribute to the running costs of the playgroup.
Westwinds Social & Cultural Institution

Towards the Community Development
Workers post.
3,741
4,000
Grove United Football Club

The funding supplied from Lloyds Bank
Foundation has made a huge impact in
the development of Grove Utd. The specific
components of funding has allowed us to drive
down costs to new participants and existing
members as a result. It has had a huge impact
in terms of volunteers both in relation to their
skill development and enthusiasm in their
individual roles. Grove Utd would like to thank
Lloyds Bank Foundation for their support and
highlight the great difference it has made.
Brian Boyd, Chairperson
09.
Community Grant
Programme process (Formerly known as the Standard Grant Programme)
01.
Pre-Application Phase
> All applications to the Community

Grant Programme must be made
online. Supporting documents to
help you complete the form are also
available once you register or can be
downloaded from the Community
Grant Programme section of our
website. These include: Guidelines
for Applicants, Advice on Completing
the Form, Monitoring and Evaluation
Factsheet and Supporting Document
Checklist.
www.lloydsbankfoundationni.org
> For advice or assistance, please call

or email the Foundation Office.
> Applications received are checked

for completeness and eligibility.
02.
Assessment Phase
> The Assessor may contact you by

telephone or personal visit to discuss
the application.
> The Assessors report is presented to

the Assessment Team, including the
Executive Director.
> The Team agrees a recommendation.
03.

Decision and
Post-Decision Phase
> Three Trustees consider the

applications, along with Team
Recommendations at the pre-Board,
Review Committee Meeting.
> The applications and recommendations

are then considered at the Board
Meeting.
04.
Evaluation (12 months later)
> You will need to submit an Evaluation

Form, which you will complete online.
> You may receive an Evaluation

Visit from a member of the
Foundation Team.
> 12 months from the date of

application, you can re-apply
to the Foundation.
> Letters advising of the applications

outcomes are sent to all groups within
7 days.
> Successful applicants will be asked to

submit signed Terms and Conditions
and bank details, on receipt of which a
BACS payment will be issued. However,
if the Trustees require you to meet a
condition, payment will be delayed
until the requirement has been satisfied.
COMMUNITY grant programme process 37
10.
TRUSTEES OF
THE FOUNDATION
Tony Reynolds OBE Chairman
(appointed Chairman March 2013)
Tony Reynolds has spent most of his working career
with Gilbert Ash, serving as Chief Executive from
1988-2003 and then in the non-executive position
of Chairman. Tony has been involved in a range of
professional and voluntary bodies including being
a current Board Member of Giving NI, and was
awarded the OBE in 1998 for services to the
construction industry, industrial relations and
charitable organisations.
Janet Leckey Deputy Chairman
(appointed Deputy Chairman March 2013)
Janet Leckey had a career in social work and in
research in higher education. She served on the
Board of the Health Promotion Agency for Northern
Ireland (HPAN) and was a volunteer for 26 years with
Cruse Bereavement Care. Currently she sits as a Lay
Magistrate and is a Lay Assessor with the National
Clinical Assessment Service (NCAS). She is one of two
of the Lloyds Bank Foundation for Northern Ireland
Trustees who represent the Foundation on the Board
of Giving NI.
38 Trustees of the foundation
Robert Agnew
Hugh Donnelly
Paula Leathem (appointed September 2013)
Robert Agnew is a graduate of Trinity College Dublin.

He spent 13 years in the textile industry as Sales Director
for a County Armagh company, before becoming
Marketing Manager for the (newly re-opened) Grand
Opera House Belfast and for the Belfast Festival at
Queens, of which he was Executive Director from
1994 to 2000.
Hugh Donnelly is a Chartered Accountant with broad

experience in the financial services industry. He has
held leadership roles within the Corporate Banking
and Asset Finance markets and is presently Northern
Ireland Regional Director for Certus. He is a graduate
of Queens University, Belfast.
Paula Leathem is currently the Senior HR Business

Partner for Northern Ireland Electricity. Having
worked in the organisation for 25 years she has held
a number of positions within the Customer Services
area before moving into the HR function. She currently
leads a team of HR Professionals in the organisation
with overall responsibility for all HR Operations. Her
own specialist areas are organisational and personal
development, employee engagement and coaching
& mentoring. Paula is a Chartered member of the
Chartered Institute Personnel and Development. She is
a University of Ulster graduate and recently completed
a Coaching & Mentoring Certificate at Queens
University Belfast.
Janine Donnelly
Richard Buckley (appointed September 2013)
Richard Buckley is Editor & Publisher of Business Eye
magazine and a Director of Goldeneye Events Ltd,
organisers of the annual UTV Business Eye Awards. He
is a regular commentator on business and economic
affairs in Northern Ireland. A career journalist, Richard
has worked with the Morton Newspapers group and
with Belfast Telegraph Newspapers. His career has also
included a period in public relations/marketing as a
Director of the Manley Group.
Janine Donnelly is the Local Director for Halifax in

Belfast & East Coast, part of Lloyds Banking Group
and has spent most of her working life within Senior
Management positions of Leeds Permanent, Halifax,
Sainsburys Bank and HBOS. She is alsoan Assessor
on the Lloyds Banking Group Talent Development
Programme.
James Grant
James Grant is a Chartered Accountant with extensive
experience of the third sector. He has held various
financial and senior management positions within the
voluntary and community sector throughout Northern
Ireland and in London.
Jim McCooe
Jim McCooe is currently Head of Region for Telephone
Banking in NI and has spent most of his working life
in Senior Management positions within HBOS and
Lloyds Banking Group. Following inception of the new
Lloyds Banking Group in 2009, he was appointed as the
Groups Regional Ambassador for Northern Ireland. Jim

is a graduate of Durham University and is married with
two grown-up children. He is an active volunteer in his
local church and local football club.
Imelda McMillan (appointed March 2013)
Imelda became a Partner in O`Reilly Stewart in 2000
and is currently the Staff Partner, responsible for all
personnel matters within the firm. She is Head of the
Property Department and specialises in Reconstruction
of Title, house building developments, apartment
schemes including site acquisitions and all aspects of
property law. She was President of the Law Society
of Northern Ireland in 2011/12 and continues now to
serve on the various committees within the Law Society.
She is also a Board member of Women in Business,
NI. Imelda is married, with two children and lives in
Jordanstown. She is actively involved in her church,
serving on the Finance Committee and is an ardent
fundraiser for a number of Northern Ireland charities,
previously raising 10,000 for the Friends of
Montgomery House.
Dr Brian Scott
Brian Scott worked in publishing and international Agribusiness for many years, and later held the role of Chief
Executive of Oxfam Ireland. He serves on several local
and public charity boards including currently holding
the role of Chairman of Meningitis Research Foundation
for the UK and Ireland.
Staff Team
Sandara Kelso-Robb Executive Director
Sinad Tierney Assistant Director
Joanne Byrne Grants Officer
Brenda Kennedy Grants Officer
Ruair Donnelly Grants Officer (Maternity Cover)
Jacqueline Ritchie Grants Officer (Maternity Cover)
Caroline Fulton Assistant Grants Officer
Gavin Watters Administrative Officer until May 2013
Roisin Gallagher Administrative Officer from July 2013
Trustees of the foundation 39
Friends of Edgcumbe
Edgcumbe ATU (Assessment and Therapy Unit)
is a day centre catering for people with dementia
and Friends of Edgcumbe are a group of carers and
ex-carers of such clients, who formed into a charitable
organisation. We provide facilities which are outwith
and beyond those provided by the statutory bodies
for the mental stimulation of the clients and the
wellbeing of the carers. The former of these is catered
for in music and dance artists and the purchase of
stimulation materials plus local outings to places
such as the Arc Open Farm. We also hold an annual
dinner for the carers. The amount of funding
received in 2013 was 1,967.00.
Percy McLoughlin, Treasurer
11.
TRUSTEES STATEMENT &

INDEPENDENT AUDITORS REPORT
Trustees statement on the summary
financial statements for the year ended
31 December 2013
The summarised financial statements are not the full
annual report and financial statements but a summary
of information derived from both the Foundations
Statement of Financial Activities and the Balance Sheet.
The full financial statements, from which the
summarised financial statements are derived, were
approved by the Trustees on 11 March 2014 and copies
have been filed with the Registrar of Companies.
The independent auditors have issued an unqualified
report on the full financial statements and on the
consistency of the Trustees Report with those
financial statements.
The full annual report and financial statements are
available from the Company Secretary, of Lloyds Bank
Foundation for Northern Ireland (formerly known as
Lloyds TSB Foundation for Northern Ireland),
14 Cromac Place, Gasworks, Belfast, BT7 2JB.
By order of the Board
Mr Anthony Reynolds OBE
Chairman
11 March 2014
Independent auditors report to Lloyds

Bank Foundation for Northern Ireland
(formerly known as Lloyds TSB Foundation
for Northern Ireland)
statement is shown or into whose hands it may

come save where expressly agreed by our prior consent
in writing.
We have examined the summarised financial statements

which comprise the Statement of Financial Activities
(incorporating Income and Expenditure Account) and
Balance Sheet.
We conducted our work in accordance with Bulletin

2008/3 issued by the Auditing Practices Board. Our
report on the trusts full annual financial statements
describes the basis of our audit opinion on those
financial statements and the Trustees report.
Respective responsibilities of trustees and auditors
Opinion
The Trustees are responsible for preparing the summarised

financial statements in accordance with applicable
United Kingdom law and in accordance with the
recommendations of the Charities SORP (revised 2005).
In our opinion the summarised financial statements

are consistent with the full annual financial statements
and the of Lloyds Bank Foundation for Northern
Ireland (formerly known as Lloyds TSB Foundation for
Northern Ireland) for the year ended 31 December 2013
and comply with the applicable requirements of section
427 of the Companies Act 2006, and the regulations
made thereunder.
Our responsibility is to report to you our opinion on

the consistency of the summarised financial statements
with the full annual financial statements and the
Trustees Report, and its compliance with the relevant
requirements of section 427 of the Companies Act 2006
and the regulations made thereunder.
This statement, including the opinion, has been
prepared for and only for the trusts members as a body
in accordance with section 427 of the Companies Act
2006 and for no other purpose. We do not, in giving
this opinion, accept or assume responsibility for any
other purpose or to any other person to whom this
Martin Pitt (Senior Statutory Auditor)

For and on behalf of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
Chartered Accountants and Registered Auditors
Belfast
12 March 2013
TRUSTEES STATEMENT & INDEPENDENT AUDITORS REPORT 41
12.
STATEMENT OF
FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES
(incorporating income and expenditure account)
for the year ended 31 December 2013
Total funds
Total funds
2013
2013
2013
2012
1,872,945
1,872,945
1,873,309
Grants returned
21,015
21,015
4,000
Investment Income Interest Receivable
47,518
47,518
117,385
1,941,478
1,941,478
1,994,694
105,560
105,560
96,750
2,038,960
2,038,960
2,020,581
62,752
62,752
74,420
3,190
3,190
3,100
Total resources expended / expenditure
2,210,462
2,210,462
2,194,851
Net outgoing resources/movement in funds
(268,984)
(268,984)
(200,157)
Unrestricted funds Restricted funds
Incoming resources
Incoming resources from Generated Funds
Voluntary Income covenant from
Lloyds Banking Group
Total incoming resources / net income

Resources expended
Charitable activities
- Education and training
- Social and community welfare
- Matched Giving
Governance costs - audit fees
Net movement in funds

Fund balances brought forward
2,389,950
2,389,950
2,590,107
Fund balances carried forward
2,120,966
2,120,966
2,389,950
2013
2012
1,329
1,947
Balance sheet as at 31 December 2013
Fixed assets
Tangible assets
Current assets
7,980
18,794
Cash at bank and in hand
Debtors
2,766,133
2,842,254
Total current assets
2,774,113
2,861,048
Creditors: amounts falling due within one year
(654,476)
(473,045)
Net current assets
2,119,637
2,388,003
Total net assets
2,120,966
2,389,950
2,120,966
2,389,950
The funds of the charity:

42 STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES
Unrestricted income funds
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Tel 028 9032 3000 Email info@lloydsbankfoundationni.org www.lloydsbankfoundationni.org
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ANNUAL

The Lloyds Bank Foundation for Northern Ireland

Ballysillan Youth for Christ

Peter Thompson, Centre Co-ordinator

provided with funding of 155,509 in this the final year

making processes and outcomes. The Trustees remain

It is with great pleasure that I present my report for 2013

Foundations investment in the community. We are

executive directors report 07

Brigid Scullion, Manager

The Lloyds Bank Foundation supports

8 Standard grant programme process

The Community Grant Programme

Overall 527 grants were awarded across these 8 grant

The Creating Change Programme

Co. Antrim (Excluding Belfast)

Grants funded by Geographic Area

In 2013, the Foundation approved 145 Matched Giving

10 Standard grant programme process

Photo: New Lodge Arts

19 organisations received 1,880,479 over six years

As the 6 year Creating Change Programme draws to

Through the Creating Change Grant Programme

ARC Healthy Living Centre

Cathedral Youth Club

Kilkeel Parish Bridge Association

The elderly and isolated of Irvinestown benefit from the

The grant supports the Youth Worker who provides

To support the development and expansion of youth

The Project Leaders post is supported by the grant to

Belfast South Community Resources

The Educational Shakespeare Company Ltd

To allow them to continue to provide training and

To provide support, training and mentoring to Chief

The grant allows the expansion of work with ex-offenders.

Cookstown and District Womens Group

Learmount Community Development Group

Centre for Global Education

Building upon a summer school delivered in the

The Livelihood Project supports families who have

Fuel inefficient stoves in Afghanistan contribute to and

Through a previously funded project from Lloyds Bank

out of their family homes. In response Kopila Nepal has

The project will help strengthen the participation of

This project is to improve child development outcomes

programme were evicted when their compound was

The project is to increase socio-economic inclusion

Health clinics in Malawi are unsystematic and

effectively identify and prioritise severely ill children,

Mapepe Blessed Women is a project aimed at raising

There is no statutory support for young people when

Young Africa Namibia are committed to providing

The Department will provide training to 45 unemployed

The projects overall aim is to improve the skill base

Zomba Action Project

The project will enable the construction of a care centre

65 % of the population live below the poverty line in

This scheme is open to any Lloyds

In 2013 there were 145 approved claims made with the

for a variety of fundraising activities.

An additional 75,817 was raised by the employees

who volunteered their time.

18 Standard grant programme process

Photo: Friends of Edgecumbe