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Find out about our latest work along with upcoming opportunities to get involved, meet the team and have your say. We host a wide range of events, from webinars and podcast recordings to open house events and report launches. You can find recordings of past events in our Resources library.
In Autumn 2024, Figurative launched as an independent not-for-profit, spinning out of Nesta with a bold mission: to revolutionise arts funding and build financial resilience across the cultural and creative sector. Here our CEO, Fran Sanderson, brings a personal reflection to the journey as she contemplates learning to embrace discomfort.
Figurative has published ‘Setting the Stage’, a comprehensive guide to creating impact investment initiatives in the cultural and creative sectors, drawing on a decade of pioneering experience in this field. This blog explores why traditional funding models are no longer sufficient and how impact investment can provide cultural organisations with the patient capital they need.
Figurative is delighted to announce we have been officially registered as an independent charity by Charity Commission for England and Wales.
A key part of the work of Figurative Philanthropy for Arts & Culture (FPAC) is to develop place-based arts partnerships across the country to advocate for increased philanthropic support. But how does this work in practice? Anna Rowe, FPAC Project Lead, explains more.
An exploration into how Figurative’s impact investment has helped cultural organisations transform their ability to deliver health and wellbeing initiatives
UK not-for-profit theatre organisations can now apply for Theatre Tax Relief cashflow loans, as Figurative launches a new £2 million allocation of capital for the sector.
Join us for a free practical webinar exploring the use of AI in the creative and cultural sector and the funding opportunities available.
Figurative is looking for organisations to participate in its pilot innovative Impact Health Check initiative. The new service is designed to empower cultural organisations to take full ownership of how they measure, articulate and demonstrate their social impact.
We explore how impact investment could be the key to unlocking an organisation’s success by addressing common questions from arts organisations and highlighting case studies from our portfolio.
Figurative is delighted to announce that its CEO, Fran Sanderson, has won Social Investment Champion of the Year at the prestigious WISE100 Awards in Glasgow.
13,672 donations raised over £2.7m for 286 charities across the UK that use the arts for social impact.
The event brought together over 80 delegates from around the country to discuss the potential of place-based philanthropy.
Many of our investments have led to transformative change for arts organisations, with more showing early promise. We look at the common factors behind the successes.
Join us for a free practical webinar exploring organisational collaboration models from informal alliances to full mergers.
Join us for a free half-day conference exploring place-based philanthropy in the arts. Keynote speaker Sir Peter Bazalgette.
Last year, we asked people to share some of the best ideas their organisations had struggled to find funding for. Here’s what we learned.
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Image courtesy of Key Changes. Find out more about our work with the organisation here.