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A community to learn, connect and collaborate on blended finance. Based in the UK, the Collective brings together practitioners from every corner of the globe, across sectors and geographies. We hold regular events across the year culminating in an annual two day conference. 

The Collective is overseen by a steering committee comprised of Access, Better Society Capital, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and Save the Children, with advisory input from British International Investment and Ina Lee, Associate Director at the Global Impact Investing Network.

The Enterprise Grants Taskforce brings together funders looking to develop funding practices that support agency and sustainability through trading.

Enterprise grant-making is defined as “an approach which encourages and supports charities and social enterprises to increase or maintain their income from enterprise activities, including selling services or goods. This is largely through using funding conditions and/or incentives to encourage enterprise behaviour, often accompanied by capacity building.”

This form of funding enables social organisations to find new and different ways to generate sustainable levels of traded income.

The Taskforce is bringing funders together to build understanding and adoption of enterprise grant-making and bring it into the mainstream.

An emerging community of foundations and networks active in encouraging charitable foundations to invest their resources in line with their mission.

E mail – Chloe.Stables@access-si.org for more details of our next meeting

Local Access is a place-based network that helps six places across England design and deliver their own mix of enterprise support and flexible, patient capital. The aim is to grow the resilience and impact of charities and social enterprises in these communities. In each place, a group of local partners works together to design and manage the programme, making sure it reflects local priorities and knowledge. It’s about creating lasting, locally owned systems of support and finance.

Co-ordinated by the Association of Charitable Foundations, the Social Impact Investors Group (SIIG) exists to support foundations thinking about making an investment and those who have been social impact investing for years.

Impact Europe is a membership association made up of organisations interested in or practising venture philanthropy and social investment. It is the leading European network of investors for impact. 

The Diversity Forum seeks to drive inclusive social investment in the UK, through the convening of sector-wide groups, commissioning research, and knowledge sharing. 

Equality Impact Investing (EII) is a form of social impact investing that explicitly aims to reduce inequality and advance human rights. It applies the equality and human rights movement’s internationally recognised aims, principles and standards to social impact investing goals, strategies and impact measurement across the full spectrum of capital. EIIP exists to build the field, and drive increased use of, investing for equality impact.