by admin | Jan 11, 2018 | News
Underpinning the Connect Fund is the ambition to accelerate change by creating a learning community that can work together to advance solutions to shared challenges. The first round of Connect Fund grants support collaboration between existing intermediaries and will...
by admin | Nov 11, 2017 | Blog, Capacity Building
When it comes to capacity building, a rose by any other name does not smell as sweet. Access — the Foundation for Social Investment was set up in response to the perception that social investment was not meeting the needs of small to medium sized charities and...
by admin | Nov 9, 2017 | Blog, Diversity, Skill development
Richinda Taylor, CEO at EVA Women’s Aid and Rape Crisis, describes how she used social investment to support a project for women aged 45+ There is a scene in the popular comedy series ‘Father Ted’ where the hapless Father Dougal is on an aeroplane staring for some...
by admin | Sep 24, 2017 | Blog
You may recall that the Connect Fund was previously known as the “Social Investment Infrastructure Fund”. It doesn’t trip off the tongue. Introductions were challenging. Lucky for us, a clever wordsmith at Barrow Cadbury re-named us. Infrastructure...
by admin | Aug 7, 2017 | Data Sharing, News
A new fund hits the circuit. The Connect Fund was born this spring. The fourth young fund in the Access Foundation stable, it has slowly found its legs, teetered around the field, and poked its nose into the social investment market. The initial task was to map and...
