Lloyds Banking Group

The award may have our name on it, but all the credit belongs to our colleagues. 🎉   We’ve been recognised as the UK’s Best Bank in the Euromoney Awards for Excellence 2026!   This win reflects the progress we’re making to support 28 million people and businesses across the UK through digital innovation, customer experience and financial empowerment.   💚 From supporting customers to reach their financial and life goals, to using tech to make banking simpler and more personalised, it’s a real team effort.   #HelpingBritainProsper

Haven't heard about our incredible Community Bankers? You're missing out. They support communities across the UK and provide all sorts of advice and guidance. From tips on using the app to how to spot scams, there’s far more to the role than you might expect. We asked local legend Ross, a Community Banker from our Prudhoe Hub in Northumberland, to highlight the work he and his fellow colleagues do.

We’re cheering on England as they gallop into the World Cup semi-finals tonight. Share your score prediction in the comments ⚽🐎💚

A win for farmers and nature.  Together with Wildfarmed, we’ve launched the 'Food & Nature Resilience Fund'.  The fund brings together UK banks, utility companies, insurers and businesses, pooling investment to reward farmers for delivering improvements across biodiversity, soil health, water quality and carbon. Critically, it does so without taking land out of food production.  This makes it one of the only mechanisms in the UK where investment in nature and food production advance simultaneously.  The fund is designed to make the transition to regenerative practices commercially viable for farmers, addressing the financial barriers that 92% of farmers cite as the primary obstacle to change.  We’re delighted to have Severn Trent, Affinity Water and AXA XL among the first organisations committed to the initiative, with further partners to follow. As the UK’s largest agricultural lender, this fund builds on our broader support for the sector and marks an exciting step in creating a more reliable financial model for farmers. #HelpingBritainProsper

(Trigger warning: domestic abuse) This is Mechelle’s story. Mechelle and her three young children spent three nights sleeping in their car after fleeing an unsafe home and being denied help by the council. She tried to keep the situation calm for her youngest two, turning the car into a tent but inside she was terrified. “We had a good life and then the next day we had nothing,” she says. Their homelessness began with the lack of support for her four-year-old son, who has a learning disability and epilepsy that causes life-threatening seizures. After escaping domestic violence, Mechelle rebuilt her life in Cornwall, working up to 90 hours a week with children with special needs. But without childcare meeting Will’s needs, she eventually had to give up work. Her family in the West Midlands offered to take them in, but the arrangement quickly broke down. Though she had found a new job, she hadn’t been paid yet, and her social housing application stalled. Feeling unsafe, she left with her children. When she asked the council for help, she was refused on the grounds she had made herself “intentionally homeless”. As Will suffered seizures, the family slept in their car until they were briefly placed in a hostel, then back on the streets. Crisis stepped in, securing a hotel for the night and later supporting them through six months in temporary accommodation. “Crisis fought for me tooth and nail. Guided me with advice. Crisis have been my lifeline,” Mechelle says. In February, they finally moved into a privately rented home. It feels like a fresh start, but uncertainty remains. Will still lacks the funding he needs to start school, leaving Mechelle unable to return to work. “You can breathe for now,” she says, “until next February comes - and then what happens?” --- Mechelle is part of our Housing in the UK series. These real-life stories show the lived reality behind the UK's housing crisis. They show the individual challenges of finding affordable housing and what it means to finally have a place to call home. Our charity partnership with Crisis and Simon Community Northern Ireland is helping people like Mechelle to build a life beyond homelessness for good.

The recent Scottish Widows Retirement Report shows a third of people in the UK are at risk of not having enough money in their pensions.

This is Ray’s story. Ray woke up on his 49th birthday, knowing something was wrong with his eyesight. Doctors later diagnosed him with Leber’s, a rare hereditary condition causing sudden vision loss. In the four years that followed, he drifted between sofas, the streets, and almost a year in temporary accommodation he describes as “barely nicer than a prison cell.” Yet Ray insists his sight loss saved his life. Before that birthday, he had been battling alcoholism and unstable housing. When his vision changed and daily tasks became dangerous, he had to leave his HMO. Because he wasn’t yet street homeless, he couldn’t access support, beginning months of sofa surfing and nights in parks he navigated by sound alone. Only after becoming street homeless was he offered temporary accommodation. The instability was crushing - every 28 days he packed his belongings before discovering if he could stay. During this time, Crisis built his trust and eventually helped him secure his current social home, which he renovated as the first step in rebuilding his life. “I didn’t understand what help Crisis were giving me at the time,” he says. “But there's something that was happening in the background, they were building trust and that's a commodity that's very rare when you're homeless. They listened and they never judged.” Now four years sober and settled in his social home, Ray has launched a community interest company bringing visually impaired sports into schools with support from a Crisis Changing Lives grant. His guide dog, Garçon, keeps him grounded and moving. “People often ask me this question, how did you feel while you was staying in parks and living on the streets? I didn't have a chance to feel,” Ray says. “I survived. It's all you think about. I didn't have a chance to feel whether I was okay or not. It's just absolutely fight or flight.” --- Ray is part of our Housing in the UK series. These real-life stories show the lived reality behind the UK's housing crisis. They show the individual challenges of finding affordable housing and what it means to finally have a place to call home. In partnership with Crisis and Simon Community Northern Ireland.

How can we break down barriers experienced by disabled founders? That’s the what government, entrepreneurs and high street banks came together to answer last week at our London HQ. This was to discuss and celebrate the progress of the Disability Finance Code for Entrepreneurship. We were a founding signatory to the Code back in December 2024 and have been working before then to drive real change. One example of this is our partnership with The LILAC Centre, the UK’s first national incubator dedicated to disabled founders. We’re also working to gain deeper insights on our own products and services, by working with a 400-person disabled and neurodivergent entrepreneur panel. These are just a few of the ways we’re helping to shift the UK towards a more inclusive entrepreneurship ecosystem. Thanks to our clients Little Soap Company - BCorp™ & Cool Crutches & Walking Sticks for speaking at the event. Great also to have the support of Blair McDougall, Minister for Small Businesses and Economic Transformation and Michelle Ovens CBE from Small Business Britain there championing the code.  #HelpingBritainProsper

Happy South Asian Heritage Month! 💚    Our colleagues celebrated in our Birmingham office with an evening full of music, dancing, and delicious food – what more could you want?!     Thank you to everyone that made the night happen, here’s a little snapshot of our favourite moments! 📸

Not all (tech) heroes wear capes. Meet Adam. He’s part of a team using quantum computing to investigate how future tech could protect millions of customers against economic crime. We picked his brains on the big questions: What’s the biggest misconceptions around working with quantum? What’s his favourite thing about working at the UK’s biggest digital bank? Oh, and what's his ideal meal deal? Want to know the answers? You'll have to watch and find out ⬇️