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29/03/17

Filtering posts by topic

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30/04/19

Reach Fund: The role of advisors

Eastside Primetimers has been involved in delivering business support to the social sector for more than a decade including 8 investment readiness projects funded by Access’s Reach Fund. I’m grateful to Access for the invitation to write this blog and share some candid and (hopefully) constructive perspectives about what it’s like. Understanding the Reach Fund […]

10/04/19

Reach Fund: reflections two years on

Since 2012, the Social Investment Business (SIB) has managed a number of grant funds that have aimed to support charities and social enterprises to raise investment or win contracts. The first ‘readiness’ fund we managed was the Investment and Contract Readiness Fund: since then, we have distributed £40.5m worth of grants on behalf of public […]

22/03/19

The Reach Fund – the evolution of investment-readiness grant-funding

We at the TI Group have recently published, in March 2019, a Learning Report related to the first two years of The Reach Fund, in our role as the learning partner of Access – The Foundation for Social Investment.

14/12/18

What about the other 29%?

I was recently invited to be part of a roundtable discussion organised by Charity Finance magazine and hosted by Newton Investment Management to discuss Newton’s 2018 Charity Investment Survey. Charity Finance published a subsequent article, summarising the discussion between myself, Jeremy Wells and Rob Stewart (Newton), Toby Belsom (ShareAction), Andy Nolan (University of Nottingham) and […]

03/12/18

Growth Fund Reflections: Out on the Front Line

The Growth Fund has been in operation for over two years, with the first fund launching back in the summer of 2016. Since then nearly 200 organisations have received funding utilising the blended finance model, with an average investment size of £64k. Early indications suggest that there is a need for this type of unsecured […]

18/10/18

Approaching 50% in the Bull’s Eye

At the start of this year, I shared more on the performance of our endowment as at December 2017. I’m not quite sure how it’s happened, but we already find ourselves in October and after a very busy summer, I have been reflecting on the performance of our portfolio over the last nine months or […]

21/06/18

Partnerships really matter

Janie Oliver highlights the importance of having healthy and effective partnerships, and how Access work to ensure this can happen.

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