Here you can find ready-to-use toolkits and guides that can further support you while looking for finance. The selection gives insights into the external financing opportunities and the values different types of financiers are looking for, in addition to providing tips to identify your financial needs.

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Financing mix `

Creatives Industries – Route to Finance

This guide outlines the forms of funding used in arts and creative industries and examines funding opportunities from traditional sources and non-traditional ones. It also includes useful tips and advice. *Ideal for all cultural and creative organisations and freelancers.

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Crowdfunding `

Crowdfunding4Culture

This website gives you access to an incredible variety of resources, tools and tips on crowdfunding for the cultural and creative sectors.

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Crowdfunding `

European Crowdfunding Network

This website has a great selection of videos guiding you through the most important steps necessary to make your crowdfunding campaign a success, from understanding the type of crowdfunding needed for your project to maintaining funders’ relationships at the end of your campaign.

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Financing mix `

OMC Report on Access to Finance

This report looks at different financing instruments that can be used in the creative and cultural sectors to access finance. Links to relevant financing instruments platforms are provided, as well as case studies to inspire you in your financial journey.

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Venture philanthropy impact investing `

What is Venture Philanthropy?

A useful guide to dive into venture philanthropy and impact investing.

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EU funding `

EU Funding Support Opportunities for Audiovisual and News Media Sectors

This tool outlines the main EU-related support opportunities for audio-visual and news media sectors, as of 2021.

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EU funding `

European Innovation Platform for Cultural and Creative Industries

The European Innovation Platform aims to increase awareness of EU funding opportunities for professionals and organisations working in the cultural and creative sectors. Registered users receive an up-to date overview of the funding options relevant to them.

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Impact investing venture philanthropy `

NESTA – IMPACT MANAGEMENT CANVAS FOR ARTS AND CULTURAL ORGANISATIONS

The impact management canvas helps you to understand how to measure your impact and how best to collect data on your impact, so that impact measurement can become part of your operations and strategy. Impact measurement is important if you want to convince financiers, and especially impact investors, of the value of your business.

All the toolkits below support you in mapping and innovation your business model:

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Business modelling `

Cultuur_Ondernemen – Entrepreneurship Route- Increase Your Chances In 8 Steps

This tool is for artists and creative entrepreneurs. The guide aims to help them find their professional identity and to build a stable foundation for this identity by developing a business model. The guide also gives tips on how to negotiate and what sources of financing might suit you best. Case studies are integrated throughout the toolkit to give you inspiration.

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Business model innovation `

IETM – To Sell or Not To Sell?

This toolkit explains everything you need to know about business modelling and business model innovation in the cultural and creative sectors. It also provides you with some inspirational stories from the sectors.

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Business model innovation `

Creative Museums – Toolkit Strategies for Success

This toolkit presents a collection of innovative and creative museum practices that add value in three key areas: ‘Connecting to Communities’, ‘Spaces for Yes’ and ‘Strategies for Success’. Despite being a toolkit addressed to the museum sector, each section provides mini toolkits for a variety of objectives that may fit other cultural organisations or individual businesses.

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Financing mix `

NESTA – PATHS TO SCALE: FINANCE LESSONS FROM EUROPEAN ENTREPRENEURS

This is a general toolkit aimed at entrepreneurs wanting to scale up their business. It can help you to understand and consider a wide range of financing sources and to make informed decisions with tools such as a visual overview of the financing application process per financing source.

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Business modelling `

NESTA – CREATIVE ENTERPRISE TOOLKIT

This toolkit guides you through essential business concepts to start up your creative business idea. It also provides guidance on how to make your business work by understanding your customers, who you can partner with and how you can finance your business. It focuses especially on customer relations through marketing.

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Business model innovation `

EUROPEANA IMPACT PLAYBOOK

This toolkit targets organisations and professionals working in the cultural heritage sector. The Europeana Impact Playbook consists in a step-by-step approach to help design, measure and narrate your impact.

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Business model innovation `

STAMP WEBINAR SERIES

To learn more about entrepreneurship in the music industry, have a look at these webinars from the European Music Council.

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Business model innovation `

ARTS COUNCIL ENGLAND – MAKING DIGITAL WORK TOOLKIT

‘Making Digital Work’ is an easy-to-use toolkit for arts and culture organisations who wish to develop digital products and services. The toolkit takes you through the why, who, what and how of digital product development.

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Business modelling `

Creative Hubkit

Target group: creative hubs
This toolkit helps you to define your vision by identifying specific gaps, needs and demands to be fulfilled by your creative hub. It also helps you to define your goals, create a network, plan your finance and measure your impact for future scaling.

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Recruitment talent development and diversification `

ARTS COUNCIL ENGLAND - CULTURE CHANGE TOOLKIT

This toolkit will help you learn from best practices in recruitment and to develop a diverse workforce and leadership. The toolkit is divided into 7 sections, guiding you through the different steps involved in creating a diverse talent pool within cultural and creative organisations. The tool is presented in the form of a website page with some PDFs digging deeper into each issue.