YPIA Opportunities

We award around 24 Fellowships each year to leaders in areas such as the visual and performing arts, museums, libraries, archives and heritage, film and digital media, and cultural policy and practice. The Fellowship Programme is for leaders with ambition and vision who can show how they might take their leadership to the next level. The programme is learned through experience, not taught, and is grounded in contemporary leadership theories and approaches.

• Two 5 – 10 day residential courses and 3 days of workshops, including travel, accommodation, meals, and refreshments. You’ll learn about yourself, your leadership, and explore the skills and strategies of leadership. You’ll work with facilitators, Clore Leadership staff, associates, and speakers. You’ll hear from a range of guest leaders about their leadership journeys.
• Fellows’ Assembly – connecting with leaders in the UK and internationally around global leadership issues.
• A 360° leadership profile – to explore what that means for you and your leadership.
• A secondment – usually 6 to 8 weeks in a UK-based cultural organisation, in a field different from your own, to stretch your leadership learning.
• Up to £4,000 development budget – to spend on your learning and associated costs (e.g. conferences, courses, study visits or books).
• £14,000 bursary – financial support for time away from work during the Fellowship, paid to you or your employer (as appropriate). For UK Fellows only.
• Mentor or coach support – a package of individual support as you journey through your learning
• A provocation piece – you will produce a piece of research on a leadership topic of your choice
• A collaborative enquiry project – alongside members of your cohort you will explore contemporary leadership learning questions, and present your findings at the second residential.
• Access budget provision for D/deaf or disabled and neurodivergent Fellows, or for those with caring responsibilities.

Want to find out more? Clore Leadership will be hosting two online Q&As:

14th January 2025 : 13.00 – 14.00 – with captions and BSL interpretation (will be recorded)
30th January 2025 : 11.00 – 12.00 – for Global Majority applicants only (will not be recorded)

To register your interest to attend an online Q&A please sign up here

There is also other comprehensive information about the applications in this guide. If after consulting the guide you would like a conversation with a member of the Programmes team, please email fellowships@cloreleadership.org for assistance.

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We are interviewing on a rolling basis and may close applications earlier than October 18th.

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