Arts & Culture Finance is now part of Figurative
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Arts & Culture Finance is now part of Figurative
Our Work

Research

We lead and support essential research projects exploring the many intersections between creativity, impact and finance.

Our team draws on a wealth of expertise across the fields of social investment, cultural funding and philanthropy, programme design, impact measurement and business development. We also have access to the extensive experience of our portfolio and a growing set of qualitative and quantitative impact data.

We partner on pioneering research initiatives, sharing our learnings and contributing to the growing global conversation around the future of cultural funding and innovation.

We are particularly interested in working with partners to explore the feasibility of new impact investment funds for the cultural and creative sector. We can deliver rigorous feasibility studies, network maps, impact and investment analyses and discursive essays, among other services.

Explore our past projects below and contact us to make a proposal.

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Impact Investing in the Cultural and Creative Sectors

This report identifies a burgeoning movement of investing for impact in the cultural and creative sectors globally, emerging at the precise moment that the sector urgently needs to examine new funding models.

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Financial Resilience and the Arts Impact Fund

An interim report asking: To what extent does the experience of the Arts Impact Fund support its objective of improving the financial resilience of arts & culture organisations?

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Creativity, Culture & Capital

Creativity, Culture & Capital is a collaboration between Arts & Culture Finance (now Figurative), Upstart Co-Lab (USA) and Fundacion Compromiso (Argentina) that provides case studies of how impact capital is supporting innovation in the creative economy.

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Repayable Finance in the Arts and Cultural Sector

This survey-based research study examines existing and potential future demand for repayable finance in the arts and cultural sector in the UK, as well as attitudes to borrowing. Published March 2018, by Arts & Culture Finance

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Arts Impact Fund: Insights from the First Year

An overview of the Arts Impact Fund’s activities and lessons in the 12 months since it launched in June 2015. Published September 2016.

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Image courtesy of the Migration Museum. Photo by Elzbieta Piekacz. Find out more about our work with the organisation here.