The Clarity Studio

Financial clarity for the creative and cultural sector.

We help creative and cultural organisations understand their numbers, develop their finance strategy and make confident decisions, from team training and coaching through to finance leadership.

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Working across the creative and cultural industries: performing arts, screen and digital, creative tech, and the charities among them.

At The Clarity Studio, we believe creative and cultural leaders should never have to choose between artistic ambition and financial confidence.

Too often it feels like exactly that choice. The numbers become the thing that says no, or the thing that quietly worries you, rather than the thing that helps you decide.

That is the gap we work in. Not more spreadsheets, and not jargon, but clear thinking about money for people who lead brilliantly and did not come from finance.

What changes

The difference clarity makes.

Where most leaders are

  • Finance answers questions about last quarter, not next year.
  • You find out about a problem once it is already a problem.
  • Compliance happens somewhere, and you hope it is happening properly.
  • The bolder plan never gets proposed, because nobody can say whether it works.
  • Board papers raise more questions than they settle.

What becomes possible

  • Numbers that show you what you could do, not only what you have done.
  • Problems visible months out, while you still have choices.
  • Compliance you never have to wonder about.
  • Ambition properly tested, so you can back it and know why.
  • Board papers that settle the question and move you on.

Same organisation. Same money. A completely different relationship with it.

How we help

Keep what works.
Strengthen what doesn't.
Build what is missing.

We build, improve and lead the finance your organisation needs. We can work alongside the accountant, bookkeeper or finance team you already have, filling the gaps and strengthening what's already there.

Or, if you want everything working together, we can provide one joined-up finance solution.

Accounting & Compliance · Reporting & Planning · Finance Leadership

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"It's a game changer."
Rosenna East, Managing Director, Sinfonia of London
Who we work with

You are here to make work that matters: seasons and shows, screen and games, platforms and products.

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What clients say
"If you can't trust your numbers then it's very difficult to run a business."
Stephen Gibbs, CEO and Creative Director, Wax Digital

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"Bringing real financial rigour to organisations driven by something other than money."
About Sara

The Clarity Studio is led by Sara Vening, a Chartered Management Accountant, EMCC-accredited coach and Fractional Finance Director with three decades in finance.

Her career runs from Northern Rock and the landmark sale to Virgin Money, through finance leadership at Virgin Money Giving and the Virgin Money Foundation, to a CFO role at The Glasshouse International Centre for Music, where finance and culture properly met.

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Working together

Five promises, made to every client:

1No pretence, and no jargon
2You will always get my honest view
3You will never have to chase, wonder, or double-check
4I want more for your organisation than clean numbers
5I want you to enjoy this, genuinely

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Let’s talk it through.

A first conversation is free, informal and without obligation. Bring a worry, a decision or an opportunity, and we will help you see it clearly.

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