Leeds Building Society Charitable Foundation

Leeds Building Society Charitable Foundation champions safe and secure housing as the foundation for stability, with a mission to alleviate housing insecurity, financial stress, and barriers to quality homes for vulnerable people across communities. Rooted in compassion, inclusion, and member-driven social change, it embraces trauma-informed care, psychologically informed environments, strength-based practice, Housing First models, and relationship-based interventions. Funding decisions prioritize evidence-based initiatives fostering genuine impact through holistic support that addresses immediate crises and structural housing challenges, empowering charities via partnerships emphasizing prevention, refuge, and long-term wellbeing.

It supports interventions tackling homelessness prevention, financial hardship relief including debt advice, cost-of-living support, and financial literacy programs for individuals and families in crisis; security and refuge provision such as emergency accommodation, domestic abuse refuges, and supported living for those fleeing violence or instability; housing quality enhancements like adaptations for accessibility, energy efficiency upgrades to combat fuel poverty, and suitability improvements for people with complex health needs or disabilities; alongside wraparound health and wellbeing services integrating mental health counselling, therapeutic activities, peer support groups, and holistic care within housing contexts. Beneficiaries encompass people experiencing or at risk of homelessness, those facing poverty-linked housing threats, families in financial distress, domestic abuse survivors, individuals with physical disabilities requiring accessible homes, and vulnerable groups needing trauma-informed, person-centred refuge and stability to rebuild lives.

Exclusions encompass religious, political, military, animal welfare, medical research, individual, or overseas projects, plus non-housing-aligned work or retrospective costs. Distinctive for its laser focus on housing-centric solutions over broad disadvantage, it prioritizes charities demonstrating Housing First efficacy, collaborative evidence-based practice, and impact on homelessness-rooted deprivation in local and regional communities. Unique emphasis on member-led philanthropy favors grassroots organizations delivering preventative, relationship-driven interventions for those whose housing insecurity exacerbates social isolation, health decline, or family breakdown.