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.
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...
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...
Bridges Outcomes Partnerships is a not-for-profit social enterprise. Bridges Outcomes Partnerships helps consortia of VCSE organisations to bid for and deliver innovative public services – aiming...
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 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 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’...
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...
Co-operatives UK is the voice of the Co-operatives movement. We empower and support co-operatives enterprise with specialised knowledge and expertise to the grow the co-operative economy and...
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...
Founded in 1961, The Esmée Fairbairn Foundation is now one of the UK’s largest independent funders.
We have a £45m allocation to social investments supporting organisations working in the...
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...
Figurative is a not-for-profit incorporating Arts & Culture Finance (previously part of Nesta) and New Philanthropy for Arts & Culture. We specialise in providing loan finance to arts,...
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 offers flexible financing and expert advice, helping social enterprises realise their full potential and scale to have the greatest social impact possible.
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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...
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...
Groundwork works with communities and a wide range of partners to create lasting, positive change. We invest in projects that help people gain skills and confidence, get into work or training,...
We are the national membership charity for organisations working directly with people who become homeless in England. We work to make services better and campaign for policy change that will help...
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...
Joseph Rowntree Foundation is an independent social change organisation that works to solve poverty. Our vision is for a prosperous UK without poverty. Our mission is to inspire action and change...
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...
Livv Investment is part of Livv Housing Group who are committed to creating positive impact and building flourishing communities. This includes ongoing support for social sector organisations so...
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...
NatWest has a strong heritage supporting community-based businesses. Through NatWest Social & Community Capital (S&CC), we are building on that support, helping potential and existing...
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,...
Funded by Players of People’s Postcode Lottery, Postcode Innovation Trust’s Social Investment Programme has been created to provide sustainable funding for social enterprises that are looking to...
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 inspires philanthropy that creates vibrant, inclusive communities where voluntary organisations and social enterprises thrive, transforming and enhancing people’s...
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...
Treebeard Trust is a charitable foundation set up by Barnaby and Cassandra Wiener in 2011. The organisations currently gives out grant funding to organisations that work in social impact with a...
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...
Trust for London made its first social investment in 2012, and since then we have invested £17m in charities and social enterprises helping to reduce poverty and inequality in London.