Impact Investment Case Studies

The production company is establishing a new post production facility in Sheffield, benefiting under-represented local creatives.

The mosaics studio will use its loan to create a venue for a new mosaic focused education programme.

The acclaimed producing theatre in Essex will use a loan to manage working capital as it renovates its building into a modern cultural hub.

The creative hub acquired a new, larger-capacity building and scale up its incubator programme for BAME creative entrepreneurs.

The organisation will use social investment to develop its online gift shop capacity and to expand its digital audience.

The community interest company is adapting its Dialogue in the Dark immersive experience which employs blind and partially-sighted people.

Music Venue Properties used a £1m secured loan to launch a pioneering initiative bringing grassroots music venues into community ownership.

The charity is diversifying its fundraising and developing commissioning partnerships with CCGs, local authorities and health and social care membership organisations.

The innovative arts and culture education initiative is using its loan to scale between 2018-2020.

The literature organisation will expand its programming, develop promotional materials and launch its 10th-anniversary fundraising campaign.

The organisation will use investment to purchase a property, enabling expansion of its work with neurodivergent artists whilst also increasing earned income potential.

The contemporary dance company will use working capital to invest in restaging and touring its dance adaptation of Peaky Blinders.

The new music education venture used its loan to create a contemporary music institute at the heart of the Black Country.

The theatre company trialled a pay-for-success donor programme underpinned by a co-produced impact framework, enabling the expansion of their schools programme.

The acclaimed performing arts venue is using the loan to invest in its fundraising capacity and grow its earned income streams.

The London-based studio space provider used a loan to purchase and develop a new site, the Deptford Foundry.