* MAKING A DIFFERENCE: The Lloyds Bank Foundation for Northern Ireland has celebrated the work of 527 organisations that are making a difference to the lives of thousands of disadvantaged people. At a special reception at Parliament Buildings at Stormont, MLAs, representatives of Lloyds Banking Group and charitable organisations gathered to recognise the work being done in local communities with more than £1.635 million in funding from Lloyd's Bank Foundation. Attending the event were, front left to right, William Humphrey MLA, Assembly Private Secretary for the Department of Social Development; Mandy Frew of Ballymena Food Bank and Jim McCooe, the Lloyds Banking Group Ambassador for Northern Ireland; back left to right, Graham Lindsay, Lloyds Banking Group Director of Responsible Business and Community Affairs; Sandara Kelso-Robb, Executive Director of the Lloyds Bank Foundation for Northern Ireland; six-year-old Matthew Wylie from Aghalee Taekwondo Club; Nathan Dunne from Cairn Lodge Amateur Boxing Club and Tony Reynolds, Chairman of Lloyds Bank Foundation for Northern Ireland
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