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21 October 2009

The Clore Leadership Programme, founded and supported by the Clore Duffield Foundation, today celebrates its 5th anniversary at a reception at Tate Britain.

CLORE LEADERSHIP PROGRAMME ONE OF WORLD'S FOREMOST PROVIDERS OF LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT

The Clore Leadership Programme, founded and supported by the Clore Duffield Foundation, today celebrates its 5th anniversary at a reception at Tate Britain, attended by cultural leaders, advisers, funding partners, and Clore Fellows, and hosted by its Patron, Dame Vivien Duffield.

Over the last five years, the impact of the Clore Leadership Programme has been wide-ranging, both in terms of its scale and its diversity. It has helped re-shape cultural leadership in the UK and is now recognised as one of the world's foremost development programmes for leadership in the cultural sector.

Amongst the Programme's achievements over the last five years:

• 157 Fellowships have been awarded to outstanding individuals drawn from the cultural sector across the UK, and from Canada, China, Egypt, Iran, Ireland, Hong Kong, India and the UAE
• Fellows have moved into senior leadership roles across the UK and beyond
• Fellows are now leading independent organisations and developing innovative new projects
• Fellows and their organisations have won major awards
• The national Arts Councils in England, Ireland and Wales include Clore Fellows among their membership and Clore Fellows have been invited to join the Boards of international organisations
• Over 40 different funding partners have supported the Fellowships

In addition to the Fellowships:

• The Programme has run 21 two-week residential courses since 2006, reaching 482 arts professionals
• Clore has run Away Days for 19 organisations in the last two years, as well as training days for Board members and executives

The continuing success of the Programme is a clear validation of Dame Vivien Duffield's vision and her recognition of the need to support the development of cultural leadership.

Dame Vivien Duffield, Chair, the Clore Duffield Foundation and Patron of the Clore Leadership Programme, said: "I am delighted and proud to be able to celebrate the Programme's five years of achievement. In 2002 we recognised that there was a clear demand for increasing leadership skills in the cultural sector in the UK. 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. I am very grateful to all the many partners and funders who have joined us in supporting the work of the programme, and most particularly I want to celebrate the talent and commitment of the Fellows themselves."

Sir John Tusa, Chair of the Clore Leadership Programme, said today: "It is a proud day today. 157 talented individuals have been able to benefit from the Fellowship programme during these last five years, and are already making their mark in the cultural sector. This year, we are delighted that we have been able to expand the remit to include four international Fellowships, and also extend our programme of residential courses and Board development."

Lord Chris Smith of Finsbury, Founding Director of the Clore Leadership Programme, added: "What really impressed me was the sheer quality of the applicants who came forward - not only for the first year of Fellowships, but year after year. The way in which each group of Fellows formed strong and enduring bonds amongst themselves, teaching each other far more than anyone else could from the outside. The generosity of time and wisdom and help that countless people gave, to assist the Programme as a whole and the Fellows in particular. And the way in which each Fellow has said, ‘this has changed my life'".

Notes to Editors:

Clore Leadership Programme:
Founded in 2003, The Clore Leadership Programme is an initiative of the Clore Duffield Foundation, which aims to strengthen leadership across a wide range of cultural activities. This includes the visual and performing arts, film, heritage, museums, libraries and archives, creative industries and cultural policy and administration. It offers Fellowships and Short Courses for individual leaders, and training for members of Boards of Directors of cultural organisations. Since September 2004, 157 cultural leaders from the UK and abroad will have been awarded Fellowships. The 6th group of Clore Fellows started the Programme in September 2009. www.cloreleadership.org

The major funding partners for the Clore Leadership Programme over the last five years are the Clore Duffield Foundation and the Cultural Leadership Programme, and also Advantage West Midlands, Arts Council England, Arts Council of Ireland, Arts Council of Northern Ireland, Arts Council of Wales, Arts and Humanities Research Council, Balli Group plc, British Council, Creative and Cultural Skills, Creative London, Creative Partnerships, Culture East Midlands, Culture Northwest, Dancers' Career Development, Department of Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), East of England Development Agency, East of England Museums, Libraries and Archives Council, East of England Regional Assembly, East Midlands Development Agency, England's Northwest Cultural Consortium, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, The Garfield Weston Foundation, The Gatsby Charitable Foundation, Home Affairs Bureau of the Government of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, Hong Kong Arts Development Council, The King's Fund, The Laser Foundation, The Linbury Trust, Living East, London Development Agency, Museums Libraries and Archives Council, National Assembly for Wales, National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA), Northern Rock Foundation, Northwest Regional Development Agency, The Paul Hamlyn Foundation, Paul Lee, Screen East, Skillset, South East England Development Agency, UK Film Council, the Wellcome Trust, Yorkshire Culture, Yorkshire Forward and Youth Music.

Clore Duffield Foundation:
The Clore Foundation was founded in 1964 by the late Sir Charles Clore, one of Britain's most successful post-war businessmen and one of the most generous philanthropists of his day. After Sir Charles' death in 1979, his daughter, Vivien Duffield, assumed the chairmanship of the Foundation and created her own Foundation in 1987 with the aim of continuing and consolidating her family's history of philanthropy. The two Foundations were merged in 2000 to become the Clore Duffield Foundation. The Foundation is chaired by Dame Vivien Duffield DBE and concentrates its support on education, arts and heritage education, leadership training, health and social care, and Jewish life and culture. The Foundation has just launched a parallel leadership initiative for the third sector, the Clore Social Leadership Programme, led by Director, Dame Mary Marsh. www.cloreduffield.org.uk / www.cloresocialleadership.org.uk