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29/03/17

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10th June 2024

Creating a more inclusive financing eco-system: a behind the numbers look at our Flexible Finance programme

Flexible Finance is Access’s £22m programme, funded by the Dormant Asset Scheme, dedicated to bridging the gap in patient and flexible social investment products for charities and social enterprises. Launched in 2021, the programme creates a more inclusive financing ecosystem by intentionally targeting parts of the market that are underserved such as those from marginalised […]

05/04/24

Our data – How do we know we’re expanding the reach of social investment?

Designed to disrupt the social investment market, we focus on increasing the number of charities and social enterprises that can access social investment. One of the key tools we use for this is blended finance, where grant is blended with repayable finance in various ways to make a social investment deal viable. This means that […]

18/04/23

Data Insight – Three things we learnt from our dashboards

Each quarter we publish an interactive dashboard to share insights from across our programmes. This helps us, our partners and the wider sector to better understand our work. This blog looks at three highlights from our most recent dashboard (October-December 2022). It also shows some of the ways that the dashboard can be used to […]

25th August 2020

Total Impact Blog (6 of 6): Imagining the Future

This blog post has been written by the Ti Group, Access’s learning partner. It is based on interviews with 12 witnesses who were or are directly involved in the process as well as a review of all of the internal documentation as well as what is public. Where an opinion is expressed, this is the […]

18/08/20

Reflections from Local Access process evaluation

The previous two blogs from Access’ Director of Learning explored some of the recent changes in funders’ approaches towards monitoring and learning during the Covid-19 emergency response period. They reflected which of these changes could (and should) endure into the “new normal”. One of the key themes to emerge was around trust. In the context […]

06/07/20

Total Impact blog (5 of 6): Learning from Life

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