Our Impact

How We Enable Impact

The cultural and creative sector has huge potential to improve lives, strengthen communities and deliver positive social change. We exist to support that potential. That means working with funders and partners to bring new, purpose-driven investment into the sector, and with organisations to capture and articulate the difference they make in the world.

We enable impact in a variety of ways, including:

• Directly supporting cultural and creative organisations doing impactful work.
• Increasing the amount and quality of impact-focused funding available to the sector.
• Gathering evidence of the sector’s impact to improve programmes and bolster advocacy and fundraising efforts.
• Empowering organisations to rethink the way the sector operates and test new ways of working that put impact at their heart.

Feedback From Our Portfolio

We work closely with our portfolio to make sure we are supporting their impact goals.

• 94% of respondents to our latest survey rated their overall experience with Figurative’s Arts & Culture Finance team as ‘excellent’ or ‘good’.
• 89% of respondents said that our investment has helped their organisation achieve its social impact objectives.
• 2 out of every 3 respondents (66%) believed that our guidance has helped improve their approach to measuring and evaluating their organisation’s impact.

We will always take a collaborative approach to our work, inviting feedback and re-evaluating our investment, innovation and impact models to maximise their effectiveness.

In Their Words

“Having to consider and report on our social impact on a regular basis not only keeps it in the forefront of our minds when starting new projects, but also makes us proud, on a regular basis, of the work we do.” – V22

“By having the investment we’ve been able to keep on track and deliver our social impact vision, and not have to make delivery decisions that put money over impact.” – Studio Wayne McGregor

“Really blown away by [the] team’s energy, enthusiasms, insights and willingness to help. The conversations we’ve had have been immeasurably valuable” – Key Changes

“Working with you feels like a partnership” – Mercury Theatre