Over the past year, the Cultural Leadership Programme has been developed by a Steering Group comprising: Arts Council England, Clore Leadership Programme, Creative & Cultural Skills, Department for Culture, Media and Sport, HM Treasury and the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council.
From June 2006, the three sector lead organisations, Arts Council England, Creative & Cultural Skills and the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council will take this work forward through the Cultural Leadership Delivery Partnership, a unique cross-sector collaboration.
Project Champions
We have also appointed three project champions who will play an integral role in the advocacy and communications campaign. Together they represent a wide spectrum of leadership experience and cultural sector success:
Farooq Chaudhry, Executive Producer, Akram Khan Dance Company
Martin Molloy, OBE, Strategic Director Cultural and Community Services, Derbyshire County Council and President of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals
Rt Hon Lord Smith of Finsbury, Director, Clore Leadership Programme Delivery Partnership
From September 2006 the Partnership will employ a small core staff team, led by Director, Hilary Carty, to oversee the delivery of the Programme. The team will:
- Manage and coordinate the six-strand programme, ensuring appropriate links are made
- Oversee a Programme evaluation which will inform the project legacy
- Deliver a small research and development programme to inform further areas of programme delivery
- Conduct an advocacy and communications campaign, ensuring the Programme has wide reach across and beyond the cultural sector
The Programme will be guided by an Advisory Board comprising representatives of the three partner organisations plus three sector representatives. The Advisory Board will be managed by an independent chair.
The Six Strands
The Rt Hon Gordon Brown MP, Chancellor of the Exchequer, marked the launch of the Cultural Leadership Programme, a two year, £12 million initiative to promote excellence in management and leadership within the cultural sector, at a breakfast celebration at No. 11 Downing Street on the 20 June 2006.
The programme will be delivered through a strategic, six-strand approach and will target emerging leaders, people mid-way in their careers and cultural entrepreneurs. England is the primary focus, but opportunities will be open to people throughout the UK working in the core cultural sector of crafts; libraries and archives; museums and galleries; music; and the performing, literary and visual arts – as well as those working in the wider creative and cultural industries.
Outlines of the six strands
- Opportunities for emerging and mid-career leaders: a work-based initiative to support networks, coaching and mentoring and other approaches to learning in the workplace.
- Better informing the career choices of people in the sector: the development of a unique learning resource through a dedicated online service and web portal.
- Intensive Leadership Development: a series of residential courses led by the Clore Leadership Programme, and a creative leadership development programme, Catalyst...unleashed... in association with Unilever.
- Powerbrokers: Black and minority ethnic development priorities to drive forward the change needed to diversify the leadership of the cultural sector.
- Governance development: to establish and promote best practice for governance bodies within cultural organisations, embedding an understanding of the need for leadership in governance.
- Developing entrepreneurs as leaders: defining leadership learning needs and creating appropriate opportunities
Should you wish to contact us at the Cultural Leadership Programme you can do so by using the information below.
Cultural Leadership Programme
Tel: 020 7973 5542
Email: info@culturalleadership.org.uk
Cultural Leadership Programme launched