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Dame Mary Marsh, Director of the Clore Social Leadership Programme, a new initiative to identify and develop emerging talent in the third sector, today announced the names of the first Fellows, who will start their programme in January 2010.

The first 14 Clore Social Leadership Fellows are:

• Caroline Beaumont, Deputy Head of Corporate Development, Action for Children
• Lisa Binney, Partnership Development Manager, Toynbee School Sport Partnership, Hampshire
• Penelope Gibbs, Director, campaign to reduce child and youth imprisonment, Prison Reform Trust
• Rashid Iqbal, Director, National Mentoring Initiative, The Children’s Society
• Kate Lee, Director of Strategy & Corporate Performance, British Red Cross
• Rowena Lewis, Head of Fundraising & Development, The Fawcett Society
• Joe Ludlow, Head of Consultancy, Camberwell
• Neil Mapes, freelance project manager and founder of social enterprise Dementia Adventure
• Alexander McLean, Director General, African Prisons Project
• Jennifer Ogole, CEO of BANG Edutainment Ltd
• Bhaggie Patel, Enacting our Vision Advisor, Barnardo’s
• John Ramm, Chair, RNIB Cymru
• Faith Reynolds, Development Manager, Toynbee Hall
• David Wood, Chief Executive, Attend.

It was also announced today that Sir John Gieve will be the first Chair of the Clore Social Leadership Programme. He commented:

“With rising unemployment and cuts in public spending, we are going to need a vibrant third sector with inspiring and professional leaders more than ever in the coming years. This new initiative will help develop and strengthen that leadership, starting with the exceptional group of people who have just been appointed as the first Clore Social Fellows. I am delighted to help take this forward as Chair of the Clore Social Leadership Programme.”

Dame Mary Marsh, Director of the Clore Social Leadership Programme, added:

“This is an important day for the future of the third sector. We are delighted to have appointed such a strong and diverse group of aspiring leaders as Clore Social Fellows. We welcome Sir John Gieve as our first Chair and we know he will bring a strong and distinctive contribution to the Programme, drawing on his wide experience in Government and beyond. We are very grateful to our generous funders and supporters who have made it possible for us to open this much needed initiative to connect and develop the next generation of social leaders for the third sector.”

The Clore Social Leadership Programme, established in 2008 by the Clore Duffield Foundation with initial funding for three years of £1.5 million, is open to aspiring leaders across the third sector, working in charities, community organisations, social enterprises, co-operatives and social housing. It offers Fellows a personalised leadership development programme with a mentor, coach, extended outplacement, practice-based research project, and two intensive residentials including site visits to challenging contexts.

The aim of the programme is to equip the next generation of third sector leaders with the skills and confidence to handle risk, manage complexity and make the most of the opportunities to innovate as we emerge from the recession and beyond.

In addition to the support from the Clore Duffield Foundation, new funding relationships were announced today with the Resolution Trust and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. The Programme is also supported the Paul Hamlyn Foundation and the funders of the five Specialist Fellowships: NESTA, for a Fellow interested in developing practical solutions to gaps in the supply and demand for risk capital; The NHS Institute for Innovation & Improvement, for a Fellow working in a role in direct contact with the NHS; The Office of the Third Sector, for a Fellow from BAME backgrounds; The RNIB Fellowship for a registered blind or partially sighted Fellow; The Youth Sport Trust, for a Fellow working in or with the School Sport Partnership network. The Clore Social Leadership Programme is receiving in-kind support from Deloitte, London Business School and UnLtd.

Background

The Clore Social Leadership Programme is modelled on the influential Clore Leadership Programme for the cultural sector, which was founded in 2004, with the aim of helping to train and develop a new generation of leaders in the arts in the UK. Fellows have been selected annually from the cultural sector and beyond, to undertake an individually tailored programme of tuition, research, mentoring and secondment designed to develop their leadership skills, knowledge and experience.

• Further information on The Clore Leadership Programme external website

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 arts education, museum and gallery education, leadership training and health and social care.

• Further information on The Clore Duffield Foundation external website