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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 […]

16/10/15

Testing, testing…

Big thanks to NAVCA for hosting a workshop for us at their Chief Officer’s conference in Manchester last Thursday. It was very useful to have the opportunity to explain the role of Access to a large group of CVSs. It was a very positive and constructive session. We established that there was a clear need […]

09/10/15

AccessEd #6 – Strategic sharing

To begin with some thanks – firstly to the Charity Finance Group, for sending a really thorough and thoughtful paper, “Swimming Against the Tide”, which sets out both the scale of the challenge (“technically, [the Charitable sector] is still in recession”), and offers practical strategic advice (“mitigate current market conditions where possible, build the pipeline […]

05/10/15

Open Access

The Joint Investment Committee for the Growth Fund met on the afternoon of 17 September. As you may remember from my blog in June, we had asked for applicants seeking a larger investment (including a grant element at or near the £3m maximum) to come forward by the end of August. We only plan to […]

25/09/15

AccessEd #5 – Not always, Philip…

Having posed ‘questions, questions‘ in my last post, we’ve had a few answers: they’re all shared on our trusty google doc, naturally. A couple of quick reflections: both responses we had to the “where should we be by 2025” question describe a more stable, well understood market for social investment, underwritten by greater transparency, or […]

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