Looking for investment?
Our £16m Arts & Culture Impact Fund provides affordable repayable finance for socially driven arts, culture and heritage organisations registered and operating in the UK.
Arts & Culture Impact Fund
£150,000 – £1,000,000
We’re currently accepting enquiries for our £16 million social impact investment fund for socially driven arts, culture and heritage organisations registered and operating in the UK.
Our Vision
We want to see a thriving, inspiring cultural and creative sector generating far-reaching social and economic impact.
Our People
Our team combines extensive investment experience with deep knowledge and appreciation of art and culture.
Our Impact
We help the cultural and creative sector measure its positive impact and link organisations with responsible funding.
Our Story
We have supported culture and creativity since 2015 with a series of pioneering funding and innovation initiatives.
Our Work
We raise and manage funds, support philanthropy, run programmes and offer research and advisory services tailored to the cultural and creative sector.
Explore our open funds and find out if impact investment is right for your organisation.
Expand your philanthropic networks and local partnership opportunities.
Browse our research library exploring how finance, culture and impact intersect.
Latest News & Events
Keep up to date with new announcements and sign up to a range of online and in-person events.
Event
Figurative and Wild Rumpus are co-presenting a session for OutdoorArtsUK’s Winter Webinar series, asking: can outdoor arts organisations build financial resilience and diversify income while keeping community impact at their core?
News
To mark our second anniversary, we’ve created a new infographic celebrating some of the highlights of the past year.
Event
15 October 2026, 1-2pm. A practical introduction to PR for cultural and creative organisations looking to raise their profile without a big budget. Led by Riot Communications.
Blog
On 23 July, around 20 practitioners working to finance culture and creativity around the world met to compare two very different approaches to lending in the cultural and creative sectors.
Latest Case Studies
Explore our portfolio to learn how our investments and programmes support cultural organisations of all types.
Watch our short film to hear directly from cultural and creative organisations including Music Venue Properties, Little Angel Theatre, and Creative Land Trust about their experience working with us.
Birmingham Rep used a £500,000 loan – its second from Figurative – to remake its production of The Snowman and take it back out on tour nationally and internationally.
The performing arts organisation used a loan to strengthen its infrastructure, expand its award-winning network of children’s drama schools and widen access to their programmes.
The UK’s only museum dedicated to food is using a loan to support the creation of an outdoor play area inspired by food, farming and nature, to better serve their visitors and improve their financial resilience.
Latest Resources
Explore our funding, business and impact resources along with selected tools and publications from external sources.
Webinar
Simple, effective ways to raise awareness, build your profile, tell your story more effectively and secure valuable media coverage.
Webinar
A webinar explaining the changes and new financial reporting requirements for UK charities in 2026.
Publication Research
This report analyses the cost and environmental benefits, as well as the return on investment, of decarbonisation projects at seven UK cultural buildings, and explores the potential for a new funding model.
Webinar
A webinar exploring how socially driven organisations might adopt a more entrepreneurial mindset – such as leveraging impact investment such as repayable finance.
Partner With Us
Help us build a thriving cultural and creative sector as a funder, investor or other expert partner.
Image credits:
Lead images: Central School of Ballet, Paris Gardens, photo by Bill Cooper 2018; UD Music presents Flames Collective/ Amaria. Photo by Alexis Maryon; Image © artFix. Photo by Alba Haut. Click on the links to find out more about our work with these organisations.