Browse answers to common questions about our investment, innovation and impact programmes.
On Thursday 5 September 2024, Figurative launched as an independent organisation with a special event at Village Underground in London.
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.
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 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 Nichole Herbert Wood, of Second Floor Studios, in conversation with Seva Phillips, Chief Innovation Officer of Arts and Culture Finance.
Figurative's Chief Investment Officer, Rachel Green, takes a deep-dive into financial resilience and the experience of the Arts Impact Fund during the Covid-19 pandemic.
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?
In February 2024, Figurative's Fran Sanderson presented to a Financing Media Freedom conference in Brussels on blended finance models and their applicability to mixed model economies.
In a rising interest rate environment, the Arts & Culture Impact Fund can offer loans more cheaply than many other lenders and support investees in other ways.
The Bradford-based arts organisation used investment to launch a pioneering residential arts training programme.
The socially-driven music enterprise used a loan to purchase a building which will serve as a community music venue and skills hub.
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.
Discover how repayable finance can encourage sustainable growth in this Q&A with InHouse Records
We believe in the power of cultural and creative organisations to benefit society, and we connect them with the people, funds and resources they need to succeed.
The arts and mental health charity will extend its therapeutic interventions in custodial settings beyond its own community in the North of England.
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 new tool to help arts and cultural organisations think about how they monitor and evaluate impact and improve their impact management.