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.
The independent evaluators of the Growth Fund (Ecorys and ATQ Consultants), have undertaken research into how the Growth Fund is blending grants and loans to provide affordable finance to the voluntary sector.
The Enterprise Development Programme aims to help charities and social enterprises in England to become more financially resilient by developing new enterprise models, or by growing existing ones. Read the interim evaluation.