Increasing
access to
social
investment
Helping charities and
social enterprises
survive and thrive
We are Access – The Foundation for Social Investment.
Through our programmes and our advocacy work, we ensure that charities and social enterprises can access the finance they need to sustain or grow their impact.
We target those most in need of patient and flexible investment through:
Funding enterprise development and blended finance programmes in England.
Sharing knowledge and data and translating it into practical insight that others can use.
Mobilising others who share our goal of making capital work for communities.
Programmes to support charities and social enterprises to increase and diversify income through enterprise activity, and explore how social investment can help.
Enterprise DevelopmentOur blended finance programmes provide the affordable, patient and flexible investment which charities and social enterprises most need.
Blended FinanceIn the news / 8th July 2024
We look forward to working alongside all elected representatives across national, regional and local government to deliver tangible economic and social change at pace by…
From the blog / 5th November 2024
The Connect Fund was run in partnership with Access – The Foundation for Social Investment and housed at The Barrow Cadbury Trust between 2017 and…
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