Our purpose and strategy
Our purpose is Helping Britain Prosper.
We're a financial services group focused on retail and commercial customers.
It's our role to help businesses and individuals, while making a positive contribution to the communities in which we operate.
Lloyds Banking Group is a leading UK-based financial services group. We provide a wide range of banking and financial services, focused primarily on retail and commercial customers.
Find out more about the structure of the Group, our Directors and governance.
Lloyds Banking Group incorporates many household names including Lloyds Bank, Halifax, Bank of Scotland and Scottish Widows.
Offering our services through a number of recognised brands enables us to address the needs of our different customer segments more effectively.
Our combined history stretches back more than 300 years.
Explore the origins of our core brands and access our rich heritage collections including the company archives and WWI Roll of Honour.
Also find out more about our Museum on The Mound.
Our purpose is Helping Britain Prosper. We do this by creating a more sustainable and inclusive future for people and businesses, shaping finance as a force for good.
Customers
>£15bn
of funding provided to first-time buyers.
Colleagues
40.4%
of our senior manager roles were held by women in 2024.
Communities
>2bn
new funding supported in the social housing sector in 2024.
Shareholders
£3.6bn
returned to shareholders for 2024.
>£10bn
of sustainable finance provided for Commercial Banking customers in 2024.
12.6%
of our senior roles held by Black, Asian or Minority Ethnic colleagues.
c.£35m
donated to our Charitable Foundations in 2024.
3.17p
ordinary dividend per share price.
As the UK’s largest financial services provider, we have an important role to play in creating a more sustainable and inclusive future for people and businesses, by shaping finance as a force for good.