Summit: ldn25


Length: 20:50


In an era of reduced grant funding at local and national levels, what other sources of finance are available, and how can we ensure these are more equitably distributed? What are the opportunities to leverage legacy investments and assets to safeguard the future for emerging organisations and creative talent?

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This talk is presented by

Kevin Osborne - Founder & Chief Executive, Create Equity

Kevin Osborne is a social entrepreneur, who has spent the last 30 years as a leader, producer and developer in the arts and creative industries supporting BAME talent. His latest project is Create Equity, whose social mission is to make investment in the arts, social enterprise and commercial industries racially equitable.

Kevin’s career has been about finding better ways to cultivate and conserve the most precious resource there is: human potential.

In 2012, Kevin founded MeWe360, a social enterprise to support BAME entrepreneurial talent to reach its full potential and to promote a more equitable and representative sector. In 2019 he started Skin in the Game, a blog looking at current affairs, popular culture and issues in society through the lens of race, identity and power.

Kevin has worked as an executive producer in the music industry, a consultant in the arts and has undertaken extensive research on BAME leadership at Bath University. Kevin was a member of the Clore Leadership Programme.

Alongside his current projects, Kevin is open to being contacted for consultancy opportunities to help design racially equitable solutions for a more cohesive society.

Fran Sanderson - CEO, Figurative

Fran started her career in fund management at JPMorgan following an MA in Philosophy and Maths and periodic work in charity administration and fundraising. After this, she took a career break in which she travelled around Europe and settled for a year living off-grid in Portugal with her young family. On her return, she joined Big Society Capital (now Better Society Capital) as an investment director, where she worked on a wide variety of impact investment deals.

Fran joins Figurative from Nesta, where she was Director of the Arts & Culture Investments and Programmes team. The team worked on various projects with the aim of understanding and articulating the full breadth of impact of arts, culture and the creative economy; promoting innovative funding models and partnerships such as impact investing, blended finance, and crowdfunding; and helping arts and cultural organisations experiment with, benefit from and boost their impact via new technologies.