Key Fund, a long-standing investor in community and social enterprises, is delivering the Northern Impact Fund, aimed at new and early stage enterprises who are seeking finance to support growth. Matt Smith, CEO of the Key Fund, said: “With this fund we’re offering finance of up to £150k, but typical investments will be around £50k, […]
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Access – the Foundation for Social Investment, has announced the partnership that will deliver its two year Impact Management Programme. New Philanthropy Capital (NPC) will be leading the programme, working with a consortium of social sector organisations: Impetus-PEF, NCVO Charities Evaluation Services, Social Enterprise UK, Social Investment Business, Social Value UK and the Young Foundation. […]
Access – The Foundation for Social Investment has announced a partnership with Rathbones to manage the Foundation’s endowment in order to maximise the social impact of the funds being held. Access was given a £60m endowment by the Cabinet Office in 2015 to spend over ten years on funding programmes which help charities and social […]
Access – the Foundation for Social Investment, has announced details of the first new social investment fund in which it has invested, providing affordable loans at a small scale to charities and social enterprises. The Health and Wellbeing Challenge Fund South West, to be delivered by Resonance, will offer funding of up to £150,000 to […]
Access has published further details of its strategy, including the design of its first two capacity building programmes, plans for developing the Growth Fund, its role as a market champion and details of how it is also seeking to achieve positive impact through the management of its endowment. Access is providing over £100m to the […]
Here at Access we are committed to taking an evidence-based approach to our programmes, and making a contribution to our collective understanding of social investment through funding research. We’re very pleased to announce that our first funded report, ‘Prospecting the Future’ by Nick Temple of SEUK, has now been published. Through detailed analysis of the […]
The programme will see Access spend down a £60m endowment over the next decade to support more charities and social enterprises to be able to engage with social investment. This initial consultation phase will run until the end of September 2015, with funded programmes beginning in Spring 2016. Access was launched in March 2015 to […]