Music Venue Properties used a £1m secured loan to launch a pioneering initiative bringing grassroots music venues into community ownership.
We hope the report will spark discussions about the potential role of impact investment in future models of cultural funding.
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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.
The charity is diversifying its fundraising and developing commissioning partnerships with CCGs, local authorities and health and social care membership organisations.
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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 will 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.
The organisation will use investment to purchase a property, enabling expansion of its work with neurodivergent artists whilst also increasing earned income potential.