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29/03/17

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30/01/17

#AccessEd 16 – Come gather ’round people

“The Gathering” emerged from the brain of foundation stalwart and social investment pioneer Danyal Sattar, currently at Joseph Rowntree Foundation. The starting point was a vision of the emerging marketplace as a consistent and efficient force for social good, and the need for a greater sense of shared purpose and ambition amongst current practitioners. He […]

28/10/16

#AccessEd 14 – Postcard from America

This week it has been my pleasure and privilege to be able to come over to the US to attend the Feedback Labs Summit, in Washington DC. Feedback Labs, hosts of the event, are an organisation dedicated to developing a culture of listening and responding to participants in any social programme. “Because people should drive […]

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, […]

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 […]

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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