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29/03/17

Filtering posts by topic

Read about how to filter ACCESS’s blog posts by topic.

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 […]

18th September 2023

Equity, Diversity and Inclusion – reflections on one year as signatory to the Diversity Forum manifesto

I’m just over six months into my role at Access, and one of the things I’ve been looking at during this time is how to make progress on our commitments around Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI). Most of my career has been in the international development sector, and when I joined I was interested to […]

29th June 2023

News from Access – June 2023 – including updates on Dormant Assets and EDI

This month at Access Shaping the future – With more Dormant Asset funding due to flow to charities and social enterprises via social investment – we want to make sure this money is being used in the most effective way possible. We are looking for a broad range of views to feed into a cross-sector […]

15/06/23

Sharing our diversity data and EDI action plan – reflections and next steps

CEO Seb Elsworth reflects on our progress in relation to equity, diversity and inclusion over the last year and our priorities for the year ahead.

12/06/23

Shaping the future

We are looking for a broad range of views – from charities and social enterprises to infrastructure bodies and those in the social investment market itself – to feed into a cross-sector plan designed to ensure that all communities have access to the capital and enterprise support they need to thrive.

18/05/23

News from Access – May 2023 – including cost of living and energy updates

This month at Access Cost of Living fund now open to social investors – We’ve launched the window for social investors to express interest in our new Cost of Living fund. This follows an announcement earlier this year that Access has been allocated £11 million from Dormant Assets. The fund will enable social investors to […]

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 […]

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