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.
Figurative is delighted to announce that its CEO, Fran Sanderson, has won Social Investment Champion of the Year at the prestigious WISE100 Awards in Glasgow.
Last year, we asked people to share some of the best ideas their organisations had struggled to find funding for. Here's what we learned.
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.
We explore how impact investment could be the key to unlocking an organisation's success by addressing common questions from arts organisations and highlighting case studies from our portfolio.
Our big takeaway from Tuesday’s publication of the Hodge Review is that we at Figurative haven’t shouted enough about who we are and what we do!
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.
Explore our open funds and find out if impact investment is right for your organisation.
An exploration into how Figurative's impact investment has helped cultural organisations transform their ability to deliver health and wellbeing initiatives
Find out how our social investment funds have supported cultural and creative organisations across the UK.
Figurative has published ‘Setting the Stage’, a comprehensive guide to creating impact investment initiatives in the cultural and creative sectors, drawing on a decade of pioneering experience in this field. This blog explores why traditional funding models are no longer sufficient and how impact investment can provide cultural organisations with the patient capital they need.
A new tool to help arts and cultural organisations think about how they monitor and evaluate impact and improve their impact management. You can download the Toolkit in the link below.
Figurative launched as an independent not-for-profit last September, spinning out of Nesta with a bold mission: to revolutionise arts funding and build financial resilience across the cultural and creative sector.
The prison-based record label is using its loan to extend its services from behind bars to ongoing support upon release.
We are delighted to have launched as Figurative – a new, independent not-for-profit supporting impact, investment and innovation in the cultural and creative sector. Fran Sanderson, CEO, introduces the organisation.