Community Case Studies
The Now Project
The Lloyds TSB Foundation for Northern Ireland has provided a grant of £23,745 to the NOW Project, a charity that provides personalised training and employment services for people with learning disabilities living in North and West Belfast. It delivers a wide range of services to the community, aimed at helping school leavers and people with learning difficulties to find employment. The Lloyds TSB Foundation for Northern Ireland’s grant will enable the NOW Project to develop and deliver a Money Management training resource called Money Plus.
The Money Plus resource has three aims:
- To build the financial capabilities of people with learning disabilities, therefore enabling access to financial services
- To promote economic activity through training activities, by providing core skills to enable people with a learning disability to ‘get the job they want and to keep it’
- To build the capabilities of financial institutions to provide a tailored service to those with learning disabilities
Providing commercial expertise to charities
Cerebral Palsy Care (CPC) provides special need services and educational support to people of all ages who suffer from a wide range of disabilities, and has been a Lloyds TSB customer for many years. The charity’s relationship manager at Lloyds TSB, Martin Tyler, was so impressed by their work that he took a step back from working with them in a banking capacity to become a Trustee. Martin has taken a hands-on role at CPC by offering commercial guidance, helping to shape its business plans and taking difficult decisions with fellow Trustees. He is using his commercial experience to help with grant applications and prioritise spending to help ensure the charity maintains a healthy cash flow.
