Advisory Members
Kevin Osbourne - Founder and CEO of Create Equity and MeWe360
Kevin is a leader and social entrepreneur who works to promote a more equitable and representative arts and cultural sector; and to support BAME entrepreneurial talent to achieve their full potential. He has launched several initiatives aimed at realising these ambitions. Most recently, in 2021 Kevin founded Create Equity, a social enterprise whose mission is to campaign for investment to be racially equitable in the arts, in social enterprise, and in commercial industries. Create Equity devises, designs and delivers projects and conducts research. Projects include: the Create Equity Fund, a pilot £25m investment fund financed by public and private capital; Create Equity 2031, which campaigns and shares knowledge to raise awareness of the causes of racial funding disparities; and the Create Equity Hub, an online resource to aggregate BAME investment funds and match investees with suitable investors. Kevin is also Founder and Chief Executive of MeWe360, established in 2012 as a business incubator and venture fund for BAME practitioners in the creative industries, to make the sector more inclusive. As a black-led, not-for-profit, MeWe360 works with Black and Asian communities and through its Incubator Programme, offers members mentoring and advice, industry and peer networking as well as space and investment to develop entrepreneurial skills and growth in their own business. MeWe360 is now an Arts Council England Sector Support Organisation which to date, has supported more than 10,000 artists and entrepreneurs. Kevin hosts a blog, Skin in the Game, and is also a regular contributor of the UK’s leading industry magazine, Arts Professional. He is a graduate of the Clore Leadership Programme (2006), and in 2008 was awarded an MSc in Business and Responsibility from the University of Bath with research on BAME leadership.
