The new 2025 edition will cover the financial years 2021/22 to 2023/24, investigating the new normal ‘post-pandemic’ for everything from individual giving and business sponsorship through to trusts and foundations, and perhaps even some kinds of impact investment.
The Private Investment in Culture Survey provides an important baseline for the range of non-public philanthropic investment in England’s creative and cultural sector. The most recent edition appeared in 2022.
We’re inviting arts and cultural organisations to contribute their knowledge, opinions and data so we get a full picture of the diversity of business models and practices in the sector relating to private investment in not-for-profit organisations based in England. Museums and libraries are in scope, but heritage organisations other than museums are not.
We all suffer from survey fatigue – particularly since the pandemic. So we’ve made this survey simpler than previous editions – and are pre-populating financial information using public data from the Charity Commission, where available.
We’ve designed this survey to provide an opportunity for you to reflect on your fundraising and how private investment features in your business model. It isn’t just about financial information – there’s a chance to identify where your organisation focuses its investment, how you build your case for support, and barriers to and opportunities to doing this more successfully in the future.
If you take part, you’ll be the first to know when Arts Council England launch the report. We’ll give you priority booking to a webinar presenting and discussing the findings. You can also put yourselves forward to participate in workshops or to be a case study.
