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29/03/17

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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 […]

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 […]

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