Arts & Culture Finance is now part of Figurative

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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Tools & Templates

For cultural and creative organisations who are new to working with philanthropists, we have drawn together some useful resources in several key areas.

Tools & Templates

An insight into how we approach assessing organisations looking for investment. This part focuses on organisations’ leadership and governance.

Tools & Templates

A new tool to help arts and cultural organisations think about how they monitor and evaluate impact and improve their impact management.

Tools & Templates

A starting point for arts and cultural organisations working out their impact strategy.

Tools & Templates

An insight into how we approach assessing organisations looking for investment. This part focuses on organisations’ investment needs, financial performance and management.

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.