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About the Fellowship Programme

For 2010/11 we are offering approximately 20 Fellowships to exceptional individuals who have the potential to take on significant leadership roles.

"The demand for powerful, independent, imaginative leaders in the arts has seldom been greater. Leadership is needed and demonstrated at many levels and the opportunities for those who combine a wide range of professional skills and exceptional personal qualities are rich"
Sir John Tusa, Chair of the Clore Leadership Programme

Since 2004, the Clore Leadership Programme has awarded 157 Fellowships to outstanding individuals, some working freelance and others drawn from different types and sizes of organisations, in areas ranging from archives to theatre production, and including visual and performing arts, film and digital media, heritage, creative industries, museums, libraries and cultural policy. Fellows have come from across the UK and Ireland, and been joined by international Scholars from Canada, China, Egypt, Iran, Hong Kong, India and the United Arab Emirates. The Fellowships have proved to be a self-sustaining network in a growing family.

"By enabling this ever-increasing group of exceptional individuals to make a step-change in their skills and career potential, I believe we have made a real difference."
Dame Vivien Duffield DBE, patron of the Clore Leadership Programme

The Fellowship Programme aims to shape emerging creative leaders through in-depth learning, tailored as far as possible to the needs, aspirations and circumstances of about 20 individuals a year. The structure of the programme includes residential courses, an extended placement, original research, individually-selected training, a group project, mentoring and coaching. Fellows have unparalleled access to senior cultural leaders and to extensive networks.

Fellows can choose to take a period of six months away from work and receive a bursary while doing their programme, or continue to be attached to their place of work, with their employer being compensated for their sustained periods when they're away.

New developments to the Fellowships in 2010 include greater focus, with most Fellows able to complete the core of the Programme in a concentrated six-month period, plus an introductory two-week residential course. For others, there will be the possibility of spreading their learning over a longer time-span, of up to 12 months. In addition, Fellows now have the option of applying to undertake a three-month research project, once they have completed the rest of the Programme, which will be supervised by a Higher Education Institute and funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council.

The impact of the Programme has been wide-ranging and Fellows have found many different contexts in which to be leaders. Some, for example, have gone on to take significant leadership roles within organisations, heading up museums, theatres, orchestras and library services; some have returned to their jobs with renewed confidence, more extensive networks and advanced skills. Some Fellows are working independently, and are actively engaged in creative activity, whilst others have set up ground-breaking new charities or independent businesses. Many Fellows are members of the Boards of cultural organisations. Clore Fellows are advocates for their sector and are influencing thinking about culture.

"I feel (and I am) a more rounded leader, able to do my job better"
Matt Peacock, Founder and Chief Executive of Streetwise Opera and 2004/5 NESTA-supported Fellow

"This has given me immense confidence and self-belief to forge ahead with my ideas; to lead, take a few risks, not to be afraid to ask and to have conviction in myself and my ideas"
Subnum Hariff, Team Librarian Bolton and 2008/9 MLA-supported Fellow

In the menu to the left you will find full details of the Fellowship programme and application process.