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21st January 2025

Slowly but surely: Lessons from our work on Equity, Diversity and Inclusion

It won’t come as a shock to those working to improve their equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) practice, but progress is not always straightforward. We recently reviewed the EDI goals we set ourselves in 2023 and in this blog share insights on two specific goals. Undertaking an independent diversity audit looking at the makeup of […]

16/12/24

News from Access – including new open data on the reach of our programmes

ICYMI – update on Dormant Assets There has been a positive update regarding the next tranche of Dormant Assets. The UK government has reconfirmed £87.5 million will be used for social investment over the coming years. You can find all the details here. However, we’re not yet at the final stage in confirming the next allocation […]

16/12/24

Dormant Assets in action

In November 2024, the Government announced plans to allocate an additional £87.5 million to social investment wholesalers, in turn enabling social investors to provide vital funding to charities and social enterprises. This blog looks at the work Access has facilitated as part of the Dormant Assets Scheme so far, ahead of this additional allocation. The […]

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.

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