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29/03/17

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01/08/17

What have we learned from collecting and collating early Growth Fund data?

One year on since the launch of the Growth Fund’s first social investment fund, we reflect on what we have learned so far. Although it’s too early to draw any conclusions about the financial and social impact of the loans, just collecting and collating the early data has taught us a lot already… It’s been […]

28/07/17

#AccessEd 22 – Taking a second look at research…

Last week I attended a meeting of the Social Investment Research Council, (SIRC). This is a group of funders who commission research relating directly or indirectly to social investment, brought together and managed by colleagues at Big Society Capital (BSC). We meet around 4 times a year, to discuss current projects, explore common areas of interest […]

28th June 2017

Dodging the bookshelf – paying for research dissemination

How many times have you heard the expression ‘we don’t want this research to just sit on the shelf’? Sometimes people add something along the lines of ‘gathering dust’ for extra effect. But what’s behind it never changes – we want the research to be listened to, acted on. We researchers want our work to […]

26th June 2017

#AccessEd 21 – What’s in a name?

In my previous post, I presented some initial themes coming out of the feedback we gathered on how we should develop our capacity building activities from 2018 onwards. Our online form closed last week, and I’m pleased to say we had a number of really thoughtful submissions before the shutter fell. You can read all of […]

21st June 2017

Endowment update

In his last blog, Martin Rich, the chair of our Endowment Investment Committee, outlined the progress we have made with Rathbones, our investment manager, in seeking to maximise the impact of our endowment. In it he made a commitment for us to regularly publish more comprehensive details of our portfolio. As we are approaching the […]

11/06/17

#AccessEd 20 – Speak now…

This is the fourth in a series of posts setting out the questions we at Access are considering as we determine our strategy for investment-readiness support. As we did back in 2015, we’ve asked for your comments via an online form: this will remain open until this Friday, June 16th, so if you have something you’d like […]

8th June 2017

Second quarterly dashboard published

Last week we published our second quarterly dashboard, summarising the period up to and including the quarter January to March 2017. This follows on from our first dashboard, for the period to December 2016, which was published in February. Our latest report shows a significant increase in activity to the previous quarter, and we expect […]

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