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11th June 2024

News from Access – including new data insights from the Access team

This month at Access Creating a more inclusive financial ecosystem Access Programme Manager, Josh Robinson, explores the impact to date of our Flexible Finance programme. Working closely with our partners, this programme has delivered 3.5 times more investment to Black and minoritised communities than other Access programmes. Find out more. New data from Access on […]

10th June 2024

Creating a more inclusive financing eco-system: a behind the numbers look at our Flexible Finance programme

Flexible Finance is Access’s £22m programme, funded by the Dormant Asset Scheme, dedicated to bridging the gap in patient and flexible social investment products for charities and social enterprises. Launched in 2021, the programme creates a more inclusive financing ecosystem by intentionally targeting parts of the market that are underserved such as those from marginalised […]

05/04/24

Our data – How do we know we’re expanding the reach of social investment?

Designed to disrupt the social investment market, we focus on increasing the number of charities and social enterprises that can access social investment. One of the key tools we use for this is blended finance, where grant is blended with repayable finance in various ways to make a social investment deal viable. This means that […]

11/03/24

News from Access – March 2024 – includes new data from our busiest quarter since the pandemic

This month at Access A record-breaking quarter – Our partners deployed £9 million of investment into charities and social enterprises in the last quarter alone. This volume of investment hasn’t been delivered since 2021 when our partners delivered an Emergency Lending programme to provide immediate support to those facing challenges because of the Covid-19 pandemic. More here. […]

07/03/24

Access publishes new data from Cost-of-Living programme

Since December 2016, Access has been regularly publishing dashboards. These provide insight into the work we do with our partners to support charities and social enterprises to access the finance they need to sustain or grow their impact. We share data that cuts across all programmes and specific data for each programme. In Autumn of […]

25th January 2024

News from Access – January 2024 – including updates on our Cost of Living programme

This month at Access Access in numbers – Those familiar with our work will know that we focus on building a social investment market fit for the future, as well as delivering finance to the frontline. Through our partners, Access has now supported over 2,200 charities and social enterprises and enabled over £100 million of investment to […]

18th September 2023

Equity, Diversity and Inclusion – reflections on one year as signatory to the Diversity Forum manifesto

I’m just over six months into my role at Access, and one of the things I’ve been looking at during this time is how to make progress on our commitments around Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI). Most of my career has been in the international development sector, and when I joined I was interested to […]

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