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29/03/17

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08/02/17

Growth Fund initial observations

Last week we published some analysis of 13 live growth fund applications. These include the funds which are already live and making loans to charities and social enterprises, those where we have made an offer and are in the process of setting up the fund, and those where we are undertaking due diligence, as at […]

22/12/16

Thanks 2016

The Growth Fund has three funds now live, plus five offers made. There are three further applications currently in the due diligence stage. We are seeing a strong pipeline with a wide range of different sorts of organisations applying. Simon recently updated on progress and the themes we are seeing. A key part of our […]

16/12/16

#AccessEd 15 – Far-reaching questions…

It was a pleasure to be a part of the conversation that led to the first two grants being approved through the Reach Fund: talking through the first set of applications felt like a satisfying milestone. Over the past six months, our partners Social Investment Business (SIB) have done a great job in putting all […]

04/11/16

A call to action:

Access has been established to address to specific failures in the social investment in England, namely the lack of small scale unsecured debt, and the need for long term funding of investment readiness work. We are doing this through providing subsidy in the form of grants in two main ways: By blending grant with debt […]

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 […]

21/03/16

Extending our reach…

In December we commissioned NPC to undertake a piece of research on how Access can best develop its pipeline of potential social lenders in order to provide the best possible reach into the charity and social enterprise sector. You can download the final report here. The results have been very useful for us as we […]

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 […]

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