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Our £16m Arts & Culture Impact Fund provides affordable repayable finance for socially driven arts, culture and heritage organisations registered and operating in the UK.
Research
We lead and support essential research projects exploring the many intersections between creativity, impact and finance.
Our team draws on expertise in social investment, cultural funding and philanthropy, programme design, impact measurement and business development. We 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.
This report analyses the cost and environmental benefits, as well as the return on investment, of decarbonisation projects at seven UK cultural buildings, and explores the potential for a new funding model.
An interactive map showing the extent of Figurative’s work and impact across the UK in supporting the cultural and creative sector through our impact investment and philanthropy development work.
Setting the Stage is a comprehensive roadmap for establishing primarily debt focused impact investment funds and initiatives in the CCS. Download the report below.
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.
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?
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
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.