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29/03/17

Filtering posts by topic

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21/07/16

Growth Fund update and call for proposals

The Growth Fund is designed to increase the availability of small affordable unsecured loans for charities and social enterprises. The Growth Fund totals £45m and provides a blend of loan from Big Society Capital and grant from the Big Lottery Fund to social investors across England. This allows those social investors to offer smaller loans […]

16/06/16

#AccessEd 13 – Testing the Water

The six weeks since my last post have been a busy time. Amidst a lot of work to get our Reach Fund and Impact Management programmes up and running, I’ve also been speaking to organisations about the ‘Infrastructure Investment’ strand of our capacity building work, as advertised in my last post. This series of conversations […]

28/04/16

AccessEd #12 – Supporting the supporters

Back in December we announced the ‘headlines’ for our capacity building programme. With the process of getting our Reach Fund and Impact Management programmes up and running underway, and the working group for GoodFinance.org.uk making good progress, we’re now developing our plans for “Infrastructure Investments”. To restate the context: social investment intermediary organisations (social lenders, […]

21/03/16

Extending our reach…

In December we commissioned NPC to undertake a piece of research on how Access can best develop its pipeline of potential social lenders in order to provide the best possible reach into the charity and social enterprise sector. You can download the final report here. The results have been very useful for us as we […]

05/02/16

First Impressions

It’s been 3 months or so since I joined Access and I haven’t posted a blog until now. So while it’s probably overdue, I was really just hoping that they would forget and I wouldn’t have to write them. No chance… so here goes nothing. It’s my first time posting and my first entry for […]

04/02/16

Pause for thought

I last wrote before Christmas to update on our progress on the management of our endowment, namely, how best we invest the £60m endowment from the Cabinet Office using a “total impact” approach. We received detailed proposals from the shortlisted asset managers in early January and went about reviewing them as an endowment working group. […]

15/01/16

AccessEd #11 – Let’s Dance

So it’s been more than a month since my last post: with a Yule-induced hiatus in the middle, we’ve been busily developing our capacity building programme, building on the headlines we published in December. Given the obvious requirement to shoe-horn a Bowie reference into this post, I’ll describe this stage as putting on our red shoes before we hit the […]

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