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Resources

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.

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

Latest Podcast Episodes

Listen to leading figures from the worlds of culture, finance and impact discuss the latest developments and ideas.

Episode 4

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.

Episode 3

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.

Latest Research

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

Image credits:

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.