Download our app
You can pay in cheques, transfer money, and do much more, all from your mobile.
Disability means business
Tailored opportunities for disabled and neurodivergent entrepreneurs to help you start, manage and grow your business.
Breaking barriers through financial empowerment
If you’re a disabled or neurodivergent entrepreneur you make up around 25% of the UK’s 5.5m small business population. By helping to create equal opportunities for you and your business, the Lilac Review estimates that £230bn could be added to the economy.
Have your say
The Lilac Centre aims to better understand the barriers faced when starting and growing a business.
Share your experiences of being a neurodivergent entrepreneur.
The Lilac Review
A government-backed independent review that aims to tackle the inequality faced by disabled-led businesses and level-up entrepreneurial opportunity across the UK.
Disabled business founders explain why the Lilac Review is important.
Learn. Connect. Thrive.
Tailored mentoring
In partnership with Small Business Britain and Digital Boost, access mentoring designed by, and for, disabled entrepreneurs.
Foundervine Immerse
Join over 2,000 diverse founders already part of the Foundervine x Lloyds Immerse community and find bespoke opportunities, events and mentoring.
Bite-size video learning
Choose from an online catalogue of quick-fire lessons on how to successfully start and grow your business.
Start-Up, Scale-Up
Access over 20 free learning modules delivered by expert trainers to help you start and grow your business with confidence, by Lloyds Bank Academy.
Access finance, your way
A finance solution tailored to MRB Recruitment Services
From overcoming profound deafness to building a thriving recruitment business. Lloyds supported Colleen Morrison with tailored financial solutions and a dedicated relationship.
Other funding options
Charitable funding programmes
A range of open funding programmes that support local charities and communities. Application opens yearly.
Helping you start-up, manage and grow your business
Navigating neurodivergence
Discover how Emma built an international business whilst navigating the world through the lens of autism and ADHD.
She believes that her difference is fundamental to her success after she created her own way of working and built a team that play to her strengths.
-
Start the course
Disability and neuro-inclusion training
This e-module can help provide the skills and confidence to have open conversations about disability and neurodiversity.
Disability at workSupporting employees with disabilities
Create a truly diverse workforce that reflects the people you serve.
Mental well-beingMental health in the workplace
Why engaging with employees is a priority for businesses, plus insights on how business owners can improve their own mental health.
Sharing your access needs can help get the support you want
We’re working with partners to help break down barriers
Being a founding signatory of the Disability Finance Code for Entrepreneurship and a steering board member of the Lilac Review means we are committed to better understanding the challenges and support for disabled-led business.
The Lilac Centre
Soon to the be launched, sign up for news on the UK’s first flagship business incubator and research centre for Disabled Entrepreneurship.
Supporting business across the UK
Discover how we’re supporting business with expert analysis and tailored resources.
We’re taking steps to improve the accessibility features of this page. If you’d like to share any feedback or suggestions please email us: socialsustainability@lloydsbanking.com.
A note on language: for simplicity, we refer to the Equality Act definition of disability, that is if you have a physical or mental impairment that has a ‘substantial’ and ‘long-term’ negative effect on your ability to do normal daily activities. We recognise there is no single consensus on how to talk about disability. The word ‘disability’ covers a wide range of conditions, manifests in an array of differing lived experiences, and is understood in different ways.