Acumen

Each year, the Acumen UK Fellowship brings together 20 extraordinary individuals tackling poverty and injustice in their communities - and equips them with the knowledge, skills and community to accelerate and sustain their impact.

The Fellowship begins with a year-long intensive leadership programme, where Fellows remain in their role while taking part in a series of week-long residentials and virtual seminars connected by group practice. This is where practical skills meet moral imagination - and the programme is designed to increase a Fellow’s capacity to bridge our divides and take on long standing problems of poverty and injustice.

After the first year, Fellows become part of Acumen’s global community of social innovators - committed to lifelong learning, collaboration and accompaniment as they drive change.

Further information can be found here.

Clore Leadership

The Experienced Leader Programme 2021 is designed for leaders in the social sector who seek to build their leadership capabilities and make a lasting difference within the sector. During the programme, you can expect to be supported, challenged and inspired by a group of like-minded social sector leaders and learn through real-world challenges, while using a variety of techniques.

You will be guided to develop inspirational, empowering, courageous, focused, passionate and generous leadership capabilities - qualities essential to any effective leader. You will learn how and what these skills and behaviours look like in action, where your strengths and areas of improvement lie, and how you can develop and encourage them in yourselves and others.

The programme is for individuals with 6+ years' experience (paid or voluntary) working for social purpose who are passionate about social change, and keen to develop.

Further information can be found here.

Clore Social Leadership

The Clore Fellowship is an individually tailored leadership development programme for the cultural sector. Participants learn through programmed leadership talks and workshops, a secondment, research, study visits, external courses and conferences. The Fellowships are supported by a range of funders, including arts councils, trusts and foundations.

This adaptive programme is for leaders from across the cultural sector who are poised to take on a significant leadership challenge, to make a step change in their leadership careers and the cultural sector: perhaps you are about to take on a major project or executive leadership role or are ready to develop your organisation. Whether working independently or as part of an institution, you will be able to demonstrate your aptitude and appetite for effecting significant change.

The Foundation aims to increase the diversity of leaders in arts and culture and particularly welcomes applications from Black, Asian and ethnically diverse leaders and D/deaf and disabled leaders, who are currently under-represented in the sector.

Further information can be found here.

She Leads Change

This programme offers an opportunity to co-create shared positive behaviours, mindsets and outcomes that may be beneficial to society.

It begins with three steps which will be the focus across three sessions. These aim to help you rise above uncertainty, embrace change and create a positive shift:

• Step 1: Manage the here and now – the first step encourages you to notice where you are, acknowledge your feelings and access your own resourcefulness.
• Step 2: Grow perspective – this enables you to see new possibilities and embrace this time as a chance to change for better.
• Step 3: Actively create a better future – from a different perspective, you can act differently and rethink your models, structures and systems. This can help you to consciously and courageously take agency to extend positive lessons into the future.

Further information can be found here.

Year Here

Year Here is for curious and creative people who are ambitious about making society better. It is about learning in the real world rather than in a lecture hall. Through three major projects in very different contexts, you’ll have multiple opportunities to build a smart, scalable response to some of society’s toughest challenges.

As a Fellow, you’ll leave the programme with a portfolio that is bursting full of projects, ideas and experiences – and go on to carve out an entrepreneurial career path. They run two programmes per year, kicking off in Autumn and Spring.

Fellows come from a range of backgrounds and industries. With an average of seven years’ career experience, they bring an incredibly diverse set of professional skills and life experiences to the programme. What unites them is their brilliant personal qualities – like resourcefulness, humility and resilience – and their passion for social action.

Further information can be found here.