About

Our Priorities

• Impact

  We believe in the power of the arts to deliver positive change for individuals, communities, society and the planet. We connect socially-engaged cultural organisations with appropriate funders, and work with them to develop robust impact measurement frameworks that capture the complex value of creative programmes.

• Investment

  We work with public, private and charitable funders to invest in UK-based cultural and creative organisations. We specialise in blended and repayable finance – funding mechanisms that are underexplored in the sector and that unlock much-needed capital from new sources.

• Innovation

  We understand the challenges and opportunities facing the cultural and creative sector, and collaborate with organisations on innovation and pilot programmes that test, evaluate, and refine promising solutions and ideas. We always share our learnings.

Valued

Funders, policymakers, and individuals recognise the impact of creative organisations and are invested in their activities – literally and figuratively.

Confident

Organisations have the capital and capacity to take risks, testing and evaluating ambitious ideas, building on their successes and learning from their failures.

Collaborative

Shared learning and cooperative action becomes the norm, so that everyone can benefit from new ideas and ways of working within the sector and beyond.

Connected

Organisations are embedded in their communities, with strong links into other sectors, and are supported by a global network of impact-driven cultural colleagues.