CWL NEWS ARCHVE

This is the CWL News and Funded Project News Archive. It draws an informative picture on which stories relevant to the creative industries were happening during the AHRC-funded period of Creativeworks London between 2012 and 2016.

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Arts Impact Fund

The Arts Impact Fund is a new £7million initiative set up to demonstrate the potential for social investment in arts.

We want to invest for artistic, social and financial return. The fund offers repayable finance to arts organisations working in England that can show how they are sustainable, have great artistic ambitions and have a positive impact on society.

We believe the arts play an essential role in our everyday lives, our cultural identity and our economy. They inspire, challenge and educate us.

The arts create opportunity, jobs and valuable income for our communities. And there are shining examples of how arts organisations can touch the lives of people and help tackle some of the most entrenched social problems.

By investing in the arts we want to support more organisations to become enterprising and resilient. By focusing on both artistic and social outcomes, we want to promote the wider positive impact art has on society and support more organisations to benefit individuals and communities through their work. And by lending to growing and ambitious organisations, we want to attract more social investors to the arts to benefit the wider sector.

Depending on what your organisation’s needs are, we can provide repayable finance between £150,000 and £600,000.

The fund will open for applications on Wednesday 15 April 2015

Click here to find out more about the funding available through the Arts Impact Fund.

 

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Queen Mary - University of London
Arts & Humanities Research Council
European Union
London Fusion

Creativeworks London is one of four Knowledge Exchange Hubs for the Creative Economy funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) to develop strategic partnerships with creative businesses and cultural organisations, to strengthen and diversify their collaborative research activities and increase the number of arts and humanities researchers actively engaged in research-based knowledge exchange.