Investing in the arts, achieving impact
The session explores the role of private philanthropy and social investment in support of the economic and cultural value and impact provided by the arts, and the important role professional advisors can play.
Join us as we meet with top leaders and philanthropists in the arts, actively making this change a reality.
CPD 60 minutes (1 hour) self-certified CPD points
Chair: Matthew Bowcock, Founder and Chair, Beacon Collaborative
Panel: Ida Levine, Trustee, Royal Academy of Dance and Dancers Career Development (DCD); Sir Richard Stilgoe, OBE, DL, Founder the Orpheus Centre in Surrey; Tim Joss, Chief Executive and Founder, Aesop, and Francesca Sanderson Director | Arts & Culture Investments and Programmes, Nesta
Speakers’ Bios
Matthew Bowcock
Matthew Bowcock is the co-founder and Chair The Beacon Collaborative and a trustee of Watts Gallery Artists Village. He roles have included Chairman of UK Community Foundations, Council Member of Arts Council England and a trustee of The Philanthropy Workshop and Philanthropy Impact. In 2012 he authored a report for the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, “Digital Giving in the Arts – Democratising Philanthropy.” Through the Hazelhurst Trust he has focused on community projects, arts for social impact and developing more and better philanthropy. His background is in technology entrepreneurship, company start-up and investment and he has established several businesses in Australia, the US and the UK. He is a director of a number of early stage technology businesses.
Ida Levigne
Ida is a Principal of Two Rivers Associates Limited consulting on policy, strategy and governance. She is a Board Director and Policy/Regulation Lead on the Board of the Impact Investing Institute. Previously Ida was Board Director, Senior Vice President and Senior Counsel for the Capital Group/American Funds in Europe, and founded its European Public Policy function. Before Capital Group, she was European Counsel for JP Morgan’s asset management business, and was a Partner at the international law firm Jones Day.
Ida is a founding Board Director of the Investor Forum. She also sits on the Financial Markets Law Committee (sponsored by the Bank of England), and is Chair of the International Securities Regulation Committee of the International Law Association.
Ida is a passionate supporter of the Arts - she is a Trustee and Chair of the Development Committee of the Royal Academy of Dance, a Trustee of the DFF Vannucci Art Residency programme, and a NED of DCD (Dancers Career Development). She also is a Patron of the Royal Ballet, English National Ballet and the Royal Academy of Arts.
Richard Stilgoe
Richard Stilgoe has spent fifty years as a performer and writer in all forms of the performing arts. On television he appeared on Nationwide, That's Life and several series of his own. On stage he toured for many years with his one-man show and subsequently his two-man show with Peter Skellern.
He wrote lyrics for Cats, Starlight Express and The Phantom of the Opera, music and lyrics for Bodywork , Brilliant the Dinosaur, ‘Orpheus – the Mythical’ and the libretto for the community operas
Road Rage and The Freedom Game. His broadcasting work has earned him the New York Radio Festival Gold Award, three Monaco Festival Prizes and the Prix Italia.
The last few years have seen Richard working with disadvantaged young people to get them actively involved in music and performance. In 1998 he founded the Orpheus Centre in Surrey, where young disabled people train for independent living and gain self-esteem through song-writing and performance. Orpheus students take their skills into Prisons and Young Offender Institutions, as well as performing at venues as diverse as Glastonbury and Buckingham Palace. He owns and drives a JCB digger, and has five children and thirteen grandchildren. Richard was knighted in the Jubilee honours list of 2012.
Tim Joss
Tim is a social entrepreneur. He is Chief Executive & Founder of Aesop – www.ae-sop.org and @AesopHealth. Aesop’s vision is ‘A future when arts solutions for society’s problems are valued and available for all who need them’. It runs Dance to Health, a falls prevention dance programme – aiming to be the first arts programme which becomes a national health service. Aesop has also developed the first evaluation framework for arts and health, the first annual survey of health sector attitudes to the arts, university-accredited arts-and-health training for busy health and arts professionals and major national arts conferences and showcases for health decision-makers.
Tim’s past activities include Artistic Director & Chief Executive of the Bath International Music Festival, Chair of the International Society for Music Education’s Community Music Commission, director of a charitable foundation and a founder of National Numeracy and the Arts Impact Fund (the first social investment fund for the arts). He was appointed a Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Government in 2005.
Francesca Sanderson
Fran leads the Arts & Culture Investments and Programmes team at Nesta, including Arts & Culture Finance, which manages over £30m of impact capital making loans of between £25k and £1m to arts and culture organisations through three funds The team works 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 and business models and partnerships, such as blended finance, impact investing and crowdfunding; improving understanding of and access to the positive impacts of arts and culture; and helping arts and cultural organisations experiment with and benefit from new technologies, for example by collaborating with Arts Council England to produce the Digital Culture Survey. Recent initiatives include Amplified, a grant and structured support programme helping cultural and creative organisations to use digital ideas to generate social impact; an Innovate UK-funded performance demonstrator project, with an RSC-led consortium including Philharmonia, Punchdrunk, EPIC Games, Marshmallow Laser Feast and others to investigate what the Audience of the Future will look like; a Creative Immersive Mental Health fellowship programme with StoryFutures looking at the role of creatives in engaging users; and Alternarratives, a prize designed to bring the short story form into the 21st century with the aim of reigniting interest in reading for pleasure among young people.
In a previous life, Fran was a fund manager at JPMorgan, before spending some time travelling in a campervan and living off grid in southern Portugal with her young family. She started working in impact investment at the birth of Big Society Capital in 2012 and moved to Nesta in 2015.
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