Is your group trading or interested in developing your income in this way?

If so, Voscur and Black South West Network (BSWN) would like to invite you to help us secure a share of a new £33million investment over ten years to invest and develop charities’ and social enterprises' trading activities.  This event will help shape Bristol’s proposal to secure Local Access Programme funding for groups. Ultimately, this will help to make Bristol a city where every community can realise its own ambitions by creating the social impact it wants.

What is the Local Access Programme?
Local Access is a joint funding programme from Big Society Capital and the Access Foundation. Bristol is one of twelve areas that can bid for new investment in a combination of enterprise development support and social finance for charities and social enterprises.

The programme’s ambition is “to demonstrate how a combination of enterprise support and blended social investment, deployed in a holistic and targeted way for up to ten years can help to achieve a step change in a local social economy and the achievement of social impact.”

Is it for my organisation?
We hope so, but it’s not going to be the best option for everyone. Local Access isn’t another grant programme to help organisations work more commercially. It’s for organisations that are clear that trading activity (by which we mean selling products/service to generate funds for charitable purpose) could be part of their future.