BRIDGE
Due diligence & funding readiness
Answer what you can — anything left blank is treated as unproven rather than assumed, and the score is discounted for an incomplete file. Your placement updates live as you go.
The entity
1. Governance
Legal standing, board oversight, policies and financial controls.
2. Operational maturity
Delivery track record, team, systems and planning discipline.
3. Financial performance
Revenue base, diversification, margin and obligation history.
4. Market, audience & revenue analysis
Attendance, ticketing evidence, sponsorship and market reach.
5. IP valuation
Ownership, registration, licensing and catalogue earning power.
6. Collateral alternatives
What can secure or de-risk finance where hard assets are absent.
7. Evidence, data & case-study learning
Documentation quality that funders rely on for decisions.
Assessment results
Due-diligence pillars
Score out of 100
7C's profile
Character to Community
Funds & programmes to approach
Synapse Axis Mobility Micro-Loan
Synapse Axis Fund · Mobility micro-loan
Purpose-tied travel, freight and showcase costs; repaid from fee or ticket income.
National Culture Fund Project Grant
National arts / culture authority · Project grant
Annual cycles; strongest applications include audience data and a case study.
Diaspora & Philanthropic Match Fund
Foundations and diaspora networks · Matched grant
Match ratios improve with published impact evidence and a clean audit trail.
Growth plan to the next level
Governance · 3–6 months
Constitute a board, adopt the core policy set and move to independently reviewed accounts.
Governance is the first filter most funders apply; weak scores here cap the instruments available regardless of revenue.
Operational maturity · 3–9 months
Document delivery roles and contracts, adopt one integrated system for ticketing, finance and project tracking, and write a two-year operating plan.
Operational maturity evidences that funding will be absorbed and delivered, not just received.
Financial performance · 6–12 months
Add at least one new income stream, build a cash-flow forecast and complete one small facility or grant cleanly to establish repayment history.
Capacity and Capital in the 7C's framework are driven almost entirely by financial evidence.
Market, audience & revenue analysis · 1 edition cycle
Move to a ticketing platform that captures buyer data, and report attendance, repeat rate and geographic spread by edition.
Verified audience and revenue analysis converts a cultural case into an investable one.
Strengths and gaps
- No pillar is at underwriting grade yet.
- · Governance has no answers recorded, so it is scored as unproven.
- · Operational maturity has no answers recorded, so it is scored as unproven.
- · Financial performance has no answers recorded, so it is scored as unproven.
- · Market, audience & revenue analysis has no answers recorded, so it is scored as unproven.
- · IP valuation has no answers recorded, so it is scored as unproven.
- · Collateral alternatives has no answers recorded, so it is scored as unproven.
- · Evidence, data & case-study learning has no answers recorded, so it is scored as unproven.
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