Arts And Culture
Our Funds
See what funding is currently available and explore our eligibility criteria and terms of investment.
Arts & Culture Impact Fund
- ✓ Investment from £150,000 to £1,000,000
- ✓ Repayable term of 1 to 10 years
- ✓ No early repayment fee
- ✓ Available to organisations based in the UK
The Arts & Culture Impact Fund brings together public, private and charitable funding to provide affordable repayable finance to the UK’s arts, culture and heritage organisations able to demonstrate measurable positive social impact. The funding could be used, among other things, to acquire new assets, improve built infrastructure, develop new ventures or scale up existing revenue streams.
Cultural Impact Development Fund (now closed for new investments)
- ✓ Investment from £25,000 to £150,000
- ✓ Unsecured loans, quasi-equity, and blended loan and grant packages
- ✓ Loans repayable over 1 to 5 years
- ✓ Up to 12 months' capital holiday
- ✓ Interest rates between 5.5% and 8.5%
- ✓ 1% completion fee and no early repayment fee
- ✓ Opportunities for interest rate reductions on achievement of social impact targets
- ✓ Available to organisations based in England
The Cultural Impact Development Fund offers small-scale repayable finance to socially driven arts and cultural organisations working with the people and communities in greatest need.
Arts Impact Fund (now closed for new investments)
- ✓ Investment from £150,000 to £600,000
- ✓ Repayable over a term of 3 to 5 years
- ✓ No early repayment fee
The Arts Impact Fund is now closed for new investments. The fund brought together public, private and charitable funding to demonstrate the potential and impact of social impact investment in the arts and cultural sector. It provided unsecured repayable finance to entrepreneurial arts and cultural organisations able to demonstrate measurable positive social impact. The funding could be used, among other things, to acquire new assets, improve built infrastructure, develop new ventures or scale up existing revenue streams.
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