Each year we award circa 20 Fellowships to exceptional leaders from a range of areas of the cultural sector including the visual and performing arts, museums, libraries, archives and heritage, film and digital media, cultural policy and practice.

The Fellowship Programme is for leaders who have ambition and vision, and can show clearly how they might take their leadership to the next level.

The Fellowship has a loose framework but it is individually tailored, adaptive and self-guided. The programme is learned, not taught and is experiential, grounded in practice, and underpinned by contemporary leadership theories and approaches.

The Clore Fellowship includes:
• Two residential courses (including travel and all accommodation, meals and refreshments).
• Skills-based workshops.
• A two-day residential ‘Intensive’ cohort project.
• A 360° leadership profile.
• A secondment (usually around 6 weeks) in a UK based cultural organisation, in a field different to your own.
• A development budget to spend on your own learning E.g. conferences, courses, study visits or books.
• A bursary to support your time away to undertake your Fellowship, paid to you or your employer (as appropriate). For UK/ Ireland Fellows only.
• Support from a mentor or coach.
• Research into a chosen leadership subject through a provocation piece.
• Work with your cohort on a collaborative enquiry project.
• Provision of an access budget for D/deaf or disabled Fellows, or for those with caring responsibilities.
• Opportunity to apply for a supervised research project funded through the Arts and Humanities Research Council, after the Fellowship.

For full details and to apply, visit our website

Closing date for applications: 12 noon, Thursday 24 February 2022