The Enterprise Development Programme (2019–2024) helped charities and social enterprises in six sectors build sustainable enterprise models, diversify income, and increase resilience. This evaluation looks at its overall delivery and impact.
Through the Enterprise Development Programme (EDP), we worked with our six sector partners to explore the diverse revenue models explored through the programme, identifying trends, challenges, and growth opportunities.
The Growth Fund Use of Subsidy report analyses how subsidy was applied, its alignment with original goals, and the key lessons learned.
Report by the Centre for Sustainable Energy looking at the challenges and opportunities faced by charities and social enterprises looking to deliver retrofit services.
An internal evaluation of a £1m programme (2020-2021) of grants for business support during Covid.
The first in a series, this report looks at the different applications of subsidy in Access’s Flexible Finance programme.
The Emergency Lending Programme was set up as an immediate response to the challenges faced by some charities and social enterprises navigating the early stages of the Pandemic.
Growth Fund Evaluation - The report, written by Ecorys and ATQ consultants, examines the progress and impact of the programme up to the end of 2020.
The Reach fund enables the provision of small, flexible grants to support resilience and investment readiness. Read the full evaluation report.
Access’s Learning Partner, The Curiosity Society, share the lessons learned from a 2019 experiment. In this trial, three social investors (who are Access Points in the Reach Fund programme) were given discretion to award small investment ready grants.