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29/03/17

Filtering posts by topic

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

17th May 2018

Risk finance: potential future uses within the UK social investment market

In the third of his Risk Finance guest blog series, David Floyd considers the potential future uses of risk finance in UK social investment

1st May 2018

Reflections on the first SIIN report

I was pleased to see the first report from the Social Investment Intelligence Network (SIIN). The SIIN is a new initiative aimed at gathering and sharing more up to date intelligence about the demand for social investment from charities and social enterprises. It brings together a group of sector leaders from around the country to […]

23rd April 2018

From targets to transparency: measuring progress against our new strategy

Our understanding of how change happens has evolved since we started in 2015. In response to what we’ve learned, we’ve grown from having a direct focus on developing the social investment market to a broader focus on helping charities and social enterprises become more resilient related diversifying their income, which in turn should increase demand […]

14/03/18

Risk finance: what’s happening beyond the UK?

In the second of his three-part Risk Finance guest blog series, David Floyd looks beyond the UK.

28/02/18

Latest quarterly dashboard

Our latest quarterly dashboard covering the period up to 31st December 2017. Here we share the highlights.

19/02/18

Risk Finance: past, present and future

2018 is a year when we will begin to get the answers to some of the major unanswered questions in UK social investment.

14/02/18

Year-end reflections on our Bull’s Eye

Readers will recall that we invest our endowment using a “total impact approach” – this means using our endowment to achieve maximum social impact while meeting our financial requirements. We established our “Bull’s Eye model” to prioritise how we choose to invest: In the inner ring of the Bull’s Eye (Tier 1) we invest directly in […]

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