Arts & Business now promotes a wider range of partnerships, helping to build communities by developing creative partnerships between business and the arts. Arts & Business provides a variety of services and programmes for both businesses and arts organisations, and now employs over one hundred staff in offices around the UK.

In 2000 Arts & Business launched a new investment programme to promote the development of new, sustainable, mutually beneficial partnerships between business and the arts. New Partners can make cash investments in projects to encourage business to try something new with the arts. The programme is designed to be flexible and supportive, rather than prescriptive, investing in the best partnerships, whatever their nature. This competitive scheme has a straightforward application process, and our staff are on hand to advise from the earliest stage.