Explore our funding, business and impact resources along with selected tools and publications from external sources.
Our resource library includes funding and impact toolkits, podcasts, webinars and event recordings, and introductions to some of the key concepts and ideas underpinning impact, investment and innovation in the cultural and creative sector.
Figurative offers a range of financial and additional support to cultural and creative organisations, but if none of our funds or programmes is right for you, there are other places to turn.
For cultural and creative organisations who are new to working with philanthropists, we have drawn together some useful resources in several key areas.
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.
A live-recorded interactive podcast featuring Nichole Herbert Wood, of Second Floor Studios, in conversation with Seva Phillips, Chief Innovation Officer of Arts and Culture Finance.
A live-recorded interactive podcast featuring Lisa Alberti, Founder of Pinc College in conversation with Seva Phillips, Chief Innovation Office of Arts and Culture Finance.
A live-recorded interactive podcast featuring Craig Pennington, Founder of Future Yard in conversation with Seva Phillips, Chief Innovation Officer of Arts and Culture Finance.
A live-recorded interactive podcast featuring Angela Dixon, CEO of Saffron Hall in conversation with Seva Phillips, Chief Innovation Officer of Arts and Culture Finance.
Learn about due diligence, what it involves and how cultural and creative organisations can be more empowered to go through this process. Presentation and Q&A with Seva Phillips, of Arts & Culture Finance, and Jay Haigh, of Can’t Sit Still.
Learn about the role of social investment and other forms of repayable finance during a time of economic challenges. Panel discussion and Q&A with Marcel Baettig, of Bow Arts Trust, and Steve Mannix, of Colchester’s Mercury Theatre.
How can social entrepreneurs take ownership of cultural assets for long-term community benefit? Q&A and panel discussion with Second Floor Studios, Music Venues Trust and Power To Change.
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?
Learn about working with the healthcare sector, measuring impact and the importance of partnerships in this Q&A with the Culture, Health and Wellbeing Alliance and Saffron Hall.
Learn about Arts & Culture Finance’s approach to impact assessment and how best to integrate monitoring and evaluation into your organisation, plus a Q&A with IRIE! dance theatre.
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.
Discover how repayable finance can be used to facilitate new, income-generating activities for your organisation in this Q&A with Fuse Arts Space / CAMP FR.
Discover how repayable finance can encourage sustainable growth in this Q&A with InHouse Records
Listen to leading figures from the worlds of culture, finance and impact discuss the latest developments and ideas.
A live-recorded interactive podcast featuring Nichole Herbert Wood, of Second Floor Studios, in conversation with Seva Phillips, Chief Innovation Officer of Arts and Culture Finance.
A live-recorded interactive podcast featuring Lisa Alberti, Founder of Pinc College in conversation with Seva Phillips, Chief Innovation Office of Arts and Culture Finance.
Browse our research library exploring how finance, culture and impact intersect.
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?
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.
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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Image courtesy of Second Floor Studios & Arts; Kemi Clark (SFSA studio AL12) with Deputy Mayor for Culture and Creative Industries – Justine Simons. Photographer Amanda Rose. Find out more about our work with the organisation here.