Seb was the founding CEO of Access and has led the organisation since its inception in 2015.
As CEO Seb has overseen the significant impact of the Foundation, working in close partnership with a range of organisations, to increase access to finance for community based charities and social enterprise right around England. Seb is widely recognised as a collaborative leader and advocate for enterprise development and social investment across the sector.
Prior to joining Access, Seb was Deputy Chief Executive at the Social Investment Business where he led on developing a range of programmes helping charities and social enterprises access social investment, and bringing new investors into the social investment market.
Seb was previously Director of Strategy at ACEVO, and he started his career as a student executive officer at Leeds University Union.
Seb was awarded an MBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours in 2022 for services to Social Investment.
Seb was appointed to the Council of the University of Leeds in August 2016, and also serves on the University’s Strategy and Investment, Gift Acceptance and Remuneration Committees.
You can follow Seb on twitter at @sebelsworth and read his regular column in Third Sector magazine.
