Access Point Directory

The following social investors are our approved Access Points. You should already have applied to one of them before applying for The Reach Fund. If you have not already approached an Access Point, or would like to know more information about them, please view their profiles in the directory.

Architectural Heritage Fund's picture

The Architectural Heritage Fund (AHF) since 1976 has been providing advice, grants, and loan finance to incorporated charities and other not-for-profit organisations across the UK seeking to...

Arts + Culture Finance's picture

Arts & Culture Finance uses social impact investment to support arts and cultural organisations that benefit the lives of individuals, communities and society through their work. We believe...

Big Issue Invest's picture

We are the social investment arm of The Big Issue. We extend the mission of The Big Issue by providing finance and support to social enterprises and charities seeking to dismantle poverty and...

Bristol and Bath Regional Capital's picture

Bristol & Bath Regional Capital (BBRC) is the region’s only investment company to focus exclusively on enabling regional change by democratising financial purpose and profit. We ensure that...

CAF Venturesome's picture

CAF Venturesome is the social investment arm of the Charities Aid Foundation, and is one of the most established and active players in the UK social investment market. CAF Venturesome aims to...

Charity Bank's picture

Charity Bank was always going to be different. What drives us isn’t profits, but a shared idea about the world we want to live in. We were founded to support charities with loans that they couldn’...

Co-operative and Community Finance's picture

CCF is the Lender for Social Purpose lending to ethical businesses since 1973. We provide loan finance to a range of organisations and community businesses that are democratically controlled by...

Crowdfunder's picture

Crowdfunder’s platform is built on the experience of thousands of UK projects and makes the process really, really simple.  Crowdfunder.co.uk helps to facilitate community owned assets, with an...

Ethex's picture

Ethex brings together on one platform the best positive savings and investment opportunities to make it easy to make money do good. Through Ethex people can invest and save with businesses that...

Francis C Scott Charitable Trust's picture

The Francis C Scott Charitable Trust awards over £1 million in grants every year to charitable organisations operating in Cumbria and the north of Lancashire. The Trust started making Social...

Fredericks Foundation's picture

Fredericks Foundation offers flexible financing and expert advice, helping social enterprises realise their full potential and scale to have the greatest social impact possible. 

Fredericks...

Fundsurfer's picture

Fundsurfer.com is a UK based crowdfunding and investment platform. Our mission is to make funding accessible for all. We work with social enterprises, CIC's...

GM Social Investment Fund's picture

GMCVO is the voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCSE) sector infrastructure organisation for Greater Manchester.  The organisation’s aim is to strengthen the sector, build bridges with...

Impact Alchemy CIC's picture

Impact Alchemy provides investment and support to smaller social enterprises and charities working across the UK. 

Our first investment program, the East Wick Growth Fund launched in May...

Key Fund's picture

Key Fund provides loans, sometimes combined with grants, in sums of between £5,000 and £150,000 to support the development and growth of community and social enterprises operating in the North and...

Loans for Enlightened Agriculture Programme's picture

The Loans for Enlightened Agriculture Programme (“LEAP”), developed by the Real Farming Trust, is a new model for financing and supporting food and farming enterprises that puts people and the...

Northstar Ventures's picture

Northstar Ventures supports charities and social enterprises in the North East of England through the North East Social Investment Fund (NESIF). NESIF can offer social investment of between £100,...

Red Shed's picture

Red Shed is Comic Relief's Social Investment team. We invest in charities, social enterprises and impact funds in line with Comic Relief’s Social Change Strategy.

This helps organisations...

Resonance Ltd's picture

Resonance is a social impact investment company. For more than 14 years we have been helping social enterprises prepare for and raise capital from investors who value both their impact ambition...

Somerset Community Foundation's picture

Somerset Community Foundation inspires philanthropy that creates vibrant, inclusive communities where voluntary organisations and social enterprises thrive, transforming and enhancing people’s...

Sporting Capital's picture

Sporting Capital is the social investment arm of Sporting Assets, a leading community sports and social investment advisor with the mission to grow a resilient and impactful community sports...

Triodos Bank's picture

Triodos Bank is one of the most sustainable banks in the world and was founded on the conviction that banking can be a powerful force for good. Our mission is to help create a society that...