Case Studies
These three organisations have all – in different ways – embodied the Dynamism Investment Principle by diversifying their income streams, allowing them to build up funding for longer-term and strategic things; like new permanent staff, and research and development.
Live Theatre’s deliberate strategy for financial growth and security
Live Theatre in Newcastle could see “the writing on the wall” in terms of the future direction of funding: year by year there is less and less of it. They worked with a consultant to plan strategic investment in 3 enterprises instead
Repurposing a deconsecrated Church into a thriving arts and community space
x-church, Gainsborough, Lincolnshire In 2005 Marcus Hammond saw an advert for sale of the deconsecrated Church of St. John the Divine in his local newspaper. He bought it for £75,000, using funds left after his father died. Hammond’s father was a church architect, and before his passing he surveyed and drew up plans for the […]
Arvon: converting in person courses to online
For their work in comprehensively, rapidly and successfully digitising their programme of courses, sustaining a stable income stream through the Covid-19 pandemic, Arvon were recently shortlisted by the Digital Culture Network for a Digital Culture Award for Income Generation through 2021. Since the 1960s, Arvon has been famous for their week-long residential writing courses at […]
Creative Advantage Fund 