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Creative economy & culture

We back new ideas to grow the creative economy, and help arts and cultural organisations thrive.

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Arts and Heritage Matched Crowdfunding Pilot

We're working with arts and heritage funders to explore the potential of crowdfunding through mixing money from the crowd with grant funding.
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Digital R&D Fund for the Arts

The Digital R&D Fund for the Arts supported ideas that use digital technology to build new business models and enhance audience reach for organisations with arts projects.
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Creative Enterprise Programme

A practical capacity-building programme to support creative entrepreneurs around the world and encourage sustainable and resilient livelihoods.
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Team

Kimberley Ballantyne

Kimberley Ballantyne

Learning Services Manager

Kimberley works in the Innovation Skills team as a Learning Services Manager, helping to build and deliver Nesta’s learning and skills offer. She is specifically responsible for the Creative Enterprise Programme.

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Georgina Innes

Georgina Innes

Learning Services Manager

Georgina works in the Innovation Skills team as a Learning Services Manager. She leads Nesta's Creative Enterprise Programme, a capacity building programme to support communities of Creative Entrepreneurs, delivered in partnership with the British Council. In addition to this, Georgina is leading the development of a new learning offer, designed specifically for Creative Hub leaders.

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Sonja Dahl

Sonja Dahl

Head of Innovation Learning Programmes

As Head of Innovation Learning Programmes, Sonja is responsible for designing and delivering Nesta’s Innovation Skills programmes for the public and community sectors.

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Isobel Roberts

Isobel Roberts

Content Editor, Innovation Skills

Isobel works in the Innovation Skills team as a Content Editor, helping to build Nesta's learning and development offering.

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Diana Hidalgo

Diana Hidalgo

Design and Production Assistant, Innovation Skills

Diana is the Design and Production Assistant for the Innovation Skills team. She works across several programmes to help develop visually engaging and informative content, as well as help capture, record and share insights and evidence coming out of the current programmes.

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