The funding aims to tackle digital inequality, to help ensure that people from all backgrounds and walks of life have access to the same opportunities.

The Access Foundation is focused on awarding grants that are specifically oriented around the following:

• To mitigate the digital divide by making computing facilities, support and learning available to disadvantaged and vulnerable people.
• To advance the charitable causes of registered charities which are chosen as the “Access Group Company Charity of the Year” (or, with independent determination by the trustees, to support registered charities which were shortlisted by the Access Group for benefit but which were not subsequently chosen).
• To advance the charitable causes of charities and not for profit organisations for whom there is a strong emotional connection with an Access Group employee (e.g. through support they or a close relative have received from the charity)