Speakers: Samantha Prince, Deputy Director, the Food Museum, Laura Renaud-Studer, Investment Director, Figurative
As museums face rising costs, stretched budgets, and increasing competition for traditional funding, diversifying income has never been more important. This session explores how cultural organisations can adopt a more entrepreneurial mindset, blending established revenue streams with innovative finance models such as impact investment.
Featuring Figurative, an independent charity that connects cultural organisations with investors, philanthropists, and innovators, and the Food Museum, the UK’s only museum dedicated to food, the session will explain what impact investment is, how it complements grants, sponsorship, and patronage, and how it can strengthen financial resilience and creative ambition.
The Food Museum will share their experience of developing a major new children’s play area, covering how they funded it, measured its social impact, worked with investors, and embedded impact investment into their story.
The session will give practical guidance on navigating today’s funding challenges, insights from the Food Museum’s impact investment journey, and free tools to help organisations develop new, sustainable funding approaches.
Main image credit: Food Museum
Samantha Prince
Laura Renaud-Studer
(C) Andrew Testa/Panos for OSF
