Figurative started life as Arts & Culture Finance, a division of Nesta, before merging with New Philanthropy for Arts & Culture and launching as an independent organisation in 2024.
We want to see a thriving, inspiring cultural and creative sector generating far-reaching social and economic impact.
We raise and manage investment funds, support philanthropy, run innovation programmes and offer research and advisory services tailored to the cultural and creative sector.
Paintings in Hospitals, an arts and health charity, will use its investment to increase staff capacity to execute its fundraising strategy and to develop commissioning partnerships with CCGs, local authorities, and health and social care membership organisations.
Help us build a thriving cultural and creative sector as a funder, investor or other expert partner.
Learn about how our philanthropy programmes and networks have attracted new supporters to the cultural and creative sector.
The innovative arts and culture education initiative is using its loan to scale between 2018-2020.
Our place-based networks focus on the role and positive impact of arts and culture on communities and rally people around local causes.
'Figuratively Speaking...' invites leading figures from the worlds of culture, finance and impact to discuss the future of the culture and creative sector.
The literature organisation received investment to expand its programming, develop promotional materials and launch its 10th-anniversary fundraising campaign.
Learn about the ambitious ideas brought to life through our collaborative innovation programmes.
Project Art Works is an Arts Council England National Portfolio Organisation and charity based in Hastings. The organisation will use investment to purchase a property, enabling expansion of its work with neurodivergent artists whilst also increasing earned income potential.
The leading contemporary dance company will use working capital to invest in restaging and touring its dance adaptation of Peaky Blinders as part of a new strategy.
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
Browse our research library exploring how finance, culture and impact intersect.
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The new music education venture used its loan to create a contemporary music institute at the heart of the Black Country.
Explore our funding, business and impact resources along with selected tools and publications from external sources.