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23/12/15

Growth Fund Update

In total we have now received expressions of interest from 24 organisations and partnerships, with 16 having been invited to apply. The joint investment committee has continued to meet regularly and over the last few weeks has reviewed four applications. As we continue to meet there are more patterns emerging about what makes for a […]

14th December 2015

And then there were three…

Over the last month, we have made some significant progress on the management of our endowment. We are considering how best we invest the £60m endowment from the Cabinet Office using a “total impact” approach. Following the thinking of the endowment working group over the past few months, we began engaging with a number of […]

4th December 2015

AccessEd #10 – Headliners

One of the findings coming out of our consultation exercise very strongly was the importance of having a healthy combination of support and challenge from an organisation’s non-executives. For Access, our Trustees have provided just that ‘across the board’, and in particular, last week’s discussion to agree the strategy for our capacity building programmes in the […]

25/11/15

AccessEd #9 – Reportage

As this is published a few hours before our next Board meeting, during which they will consider our proposed capacity building strategy in detail, there’s little new I can add at this stage – but watch this space for developments and announcements. For the moment, what I can talk about is the process we’ve just […]

06/11/15

AccessEd #8 – In other words

This week finds me landing back from a somewhat epic journey to Yungaburra (near Cairns) to attend a good friend’s wedding: a welcome brain-refresher in an incredibly beautiful setting. I admit, however, that it was a carbon-footprintingly shocking journey, and conscious that my 15 years as bike rider is an inadequate off-set, I’ve also made a donation […]

29th October 2015

Hitting the Bull’s Eye

It’s been a while since my last update, however since I last wrote, the endowment working group has met together on a further two occasions, to consider how best we invest our £60m endowment from the Cabinet Office. In my last blog, I talked about aiming for “The Investment Sweet Spot” – this is the […]

23/10/15

#AccessEd 7 – Systematic

Before I launch into an enthusiast’s account of our progress thus far with setting up our systems, a couple of noteworthy events; firstly, a webinar last week with members of Locality, who generously gave up an hour to talk through the slide I shared in my last post. It was reassuring that they were broadly in […]

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