Major new grant programme to help charities and social enterprises access social investment, funded by Access – The Foundation for Social Investment Fund is designed to work closely with social investors to simplify the process for charities and social enterprises. Ten social investors will participate initially Access announces that Social Investment Business will deliver the […]
Author: Seb Elsworth
First Ark has announced the launch of its first Social Investment Fund for the North West aimed at offering finance to early stage and growing social businesses. The £4m fund is the third to be supported by Access through the Growth Fund and will further increase the impact of the North West region’s social economy, […]
Access – the Foundation for Social Investment, has announced details of the first new social investment fund in which it has invested, providing affordable loans at a small scale to charities and social enterprises. The Health and Wellbeing Challenge Fund South West, to be delivered by Resonance, will offer funding of up to £150,000 to […]
The programme will see Access spend down a £60m endowment over the next decade to support more charities and social enterprises to be able to engage with social investment. This initial consultation phase will run until the end of September 2015, with funded programmes beginning in Spring 2016. Access was launched in March 2015 to […]