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Impact Investments
About
Nesta in a nutshell
Our strategy
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Equity, diversity and inclusion at Nesta
Where we work
How we're governed
Jobs at Nesta
Contact us
Latest content
Blog
Reports
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Features & long-reads
Data visualisation & interactive
Toolkits & guides
Help me innovate

Creative economy & culture

We bring bold ideas to life to grow the creative economy, and help arts and cultural organisations thrive.

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Arts & Culture Finance

Arts & Culture Finance uses social impact investment to support arts and cultural organisations that benefit the lives of individuals, communities and society through their work.
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Team

Fran Sanderson

Fran Sanderson

Director of Arts Programmes and Investments

Alongside heading up the Arts, Culture and Creativity team, Fran also has primary responsibility for the Arts Impact Fund.

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Seva Phillips

Seva Phillips

Head of Arts & Culture Finance

Seva is responsible for Nesta's social impact investment work in the arts, culture and creative industries

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Trishna Nath

Trishna Nath

Investment Manager, Arts & Culture Finance team

Trishna joins the Arts and Culture Finance team as Investment Manager for the Cultural Impact Development Fund (CIDF)

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Louisa Shanks

Louisa Shanks

Assistant Operations Manager, Arts & Culture Finance

Louisa is the Assistant Operations Manager for Arts & Culture Finance, working across the team's two investment funds.

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Dominika Cazamea

Dominika Cazamea

Investment Analyst, Arts & Culture Finance team

Dominika is an Investment Analyst for the Arts & Culture Impact Fund, a social investment fund offering repayable finance to arts, culture and heritage organisations across the UK.

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Rachel Green

Rachel Green

Investment Manager, Arts & Culture Finance team

Rachel works in the Arts & Culture Finance team as Investment Manager of the Arts & Culture Impact Fund.

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Surabhi Narendranath

Surabhi Narendranath

Investment Analyst, Arts & Culture Finance team

Surabhi works in the Arts and Culture Finance team as an investment analyst for the Arts & Culture Impact Fund.

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Amplified

Amplified was a pilot programme supporting cultural and creative organisations seeking to develop digital ideas that generate social impact.
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Deborah Fox

Deborah Fox

Head of Creative Innovation

Deborah leads Nesta's Arts Practice.

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Celeste Salas

Celeste Salas

Assistant Programme Manager

Celeste managed the Creative Business Mentor Network, a programme which aims to nurture some of the UK’s most promising creative companies by matching them with successful mentors.

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Fran Sanderson

Fran Sanderson

Director of Arts Programmes and Investments

Alongside heading up the Arts, Culture and Creativity team, Fran also has primary responsibility for the Arts Impact Fund.

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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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Jonathan Bone

Jonathan Bone

Mission Manager, A Healthy Life

Jonathan works within Nesta Cymru (Wales), focusing on working across public, private and non-profit sectors to deliver innovative solutions that tackle obesity and loneliness in Wales.

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Sam Mitchell

Sam Mitchell

Programme Manager, Digital Arts & Media

Sam Mitchell was a Programme Manager in the Digital Arts & Media team at Nesta

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Peter Baeck

Peter Baeck

Co-Head of the Centre for Collective Intelligence Design

Peter is responsible for a number of large scale research projects and experiments that explore how human and machine intelligence can be combined to solve social challenges.

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Christopher Burnett

Christopher Burnett

Policy & Research Intern, New Technology and Startups

Christopher focussed on the field of start-ups and entrepreneurship, mainly working on the Startup Europe Partnership 2.0 project.

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Toby Baker

Toby Baker

Programme Manager - Education, A Fairer Start mission

Toby works in Nesta’s education team to help our education system make better use of technology and data.

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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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Kimberley Ballantyne

Kimberley Ballantyne

Learning and Development Manager

Kimberley works as the Learning and Development Manager.

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Sonja Dahl

Sonja Dahl

Director, Innovation Skills

As Director, Sonja led the team responsible for spreading innovation skills and strengthening the conditions that allow innovation to thrive.

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