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29/03/17

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02/09/16

Turning our vision into reality – the first steps

You may have seen our announcement a couple of weeks ago that we are partnering with Rathbones who will manage our endowment – the culmination of months of thinking about how we invest using a “total impact approach”, how we engage with the investment community and how we determine which asset manager is best able […]

24/08/16

Navigating the Growth Fund process – how hopefully we are making that easier!

A few weeks ago, Seb posted a blog reflecting on what we have learned and how we are seeking to improve, following the announcement of our first Growth Fund investment into Resonance. He mentioned that based on this learning, we have published updated guidance on the whole Growth Fund process, a revised expression of interest […]

28/07/16

Thanks to Resonance for being our first, what we have learned and how we are seeking to improve

You may have seen the announcement last week that Resonance have launched the first fund lending to charities and social enterprises which has been supported by the Growth Fund. This is the first fund to go live and is now available for applications from charities and social enterprises in South West England working to bring […]

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 […]

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