Financial Resilience
Improved financial resilience represents one of the Arts & Culture Finance team’s key outcomes for its investees. Financially resilient organisations are better placed to withstand exogenous...
Introducing arts and culture organisations to finance that supports creative ambition, resilience and doing good in society
We support arts and cultural organisations that benefit the lives of individuals, communities and society through their work and use our investments to help organisations to become more sustainable and resilient.
More about Arts and Culture Finance >Fixed Interest: Why Our Lending Is More Competitive Than Ever
On 4th August the Bank of England increased its base rate to 1.75% to counteract spiralling inflation, the logic being that the higher cost of borrowing...
Cultural Placemaking and Grassroots Social Enterprise
In this blog, Head of Arts & Culture Finance Seva Phillips, makes the case for the role of culture and cultural institutions in driving the social...
An update on our EDI Actions
We are pleased to announce that Nesta Investments which includes Nesta Impact Ventures and Arts & Culture Finance (“ACF”) has been certified as a Level 2...
Sources of funding and support for Black & minority led social enterprises
As the Black Lives Matter movement and the Covid-19 pandemic have laid bare exacerbating racial inequalities in the UK, the past year has seen new efforts...
Equity, Diversity & Inclusion in the Arts: A spotlight on IRIE! dance theatre
A look at the different ways IRIE translates commitment to diversity into action – from service design and impact measurement to representation in leadership and governance...