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29/03/17

Filtering posts by topic

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

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.

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.

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