The Clore Social Leadership Programme announced today the appointment of sixteen Clore Social Fellows for 2011, including the Calouste Gulbenkian Fellow. The Programme, now in its second year, seeks to identify, connect and develop future leaders of the social sector, at a time when the challenges for charities, social enterprises and community organisations have never been greater.

2011 Clore Social Fellows

Mark Richardson, Calouste Gulbenkian Fellow, Business Development Manager, Dwyfor Coffee Company, fair trade coffee supplier in Wales.

Yaseer Ahmed, Chief Officer at the Bolton Council of Mosques and Non-Executive Director, Royal Bolton NHS.

Jamie Audsley, Schools Co-ordinator, Citizens UK.

Dan Berelowitz, Director, Tzedek, the UK's Jewish community's response to extreme poverty.

Natalie Campbell, Interim Head of Digital for Enterprise UK.

Ruth Campbell, Director of Comas, a community development organisation based in Scotland.

Mary Duffy, Assistant Director, Research and Influencing, Barnardo's.

Esther Foreman, Manager, Policy and Campaigns teams, Mencap.

Beth Green, Assistant Director of Operations, The Children's Society.

Richard Holmes, Service Manager for Study Support and Play for Success, Gloucester County Council.

Caroline Huntley, Employment Development Officer, RNIB

Laura Hyde, Director of Services at King's College London Students Union.

Alison Kaye, Director of the London Work Based Learning Alliance.

Kate Stanley, Deputy Director of the Institute for Public Policy Research.

Jonathan Taylor, Director of Finance and Resources, Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation.

Jacqueline Williamson, Head of Fundraising and Development, First Housing Aid and Support Service, Northern Ireland.

Dame Mary Marsh, Director of the Clore Social Leadership Programme, said today:
"Social purpose organisations need confident, capable and innovative leadership. There could not be a more significant time to ensure that we secure this. The consequences of the comprehensive spending review for charities, social enterprises and community organisations across the UK remain uncertain. There will be opportunities, serious challenges and, for some time yet, considerable and unpredictable consequences in localities and communities.

We have found an exceptional group of diverse and highly talented people to join the Fellowship. They have already made an impact in the social sector and they all have considerable potential. Thanks to the generosity of our funders, they are able to take up this timely investment in their further leadership capability and wider contribution to the sector.

The 2010 Clore Social Fellows, who started in January this year, have demonstrated very powerfully how to make the most of the opportunities that the Programme can provide."

Minister for Civil Society, Nick Hurd MP said:
"The Big Society needs confident leaders who are innovative, entrepreneurial and ready to take risks. The Clore Social Leadership Programme makes a significant contribution identifying and developing talented people with the potential to take on the social challenges we face today."

The Programme has attracted funding from a wide range of Foundations and Trusts and corporate partners, building on the core investment by the Clore Duffield Foundation. Other funders for 2011 are the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Deloitte, NESTA, the Monument Trust, Pears Foundation, Paul Hamlyn Foundation, Resolution Trust, and RNIB.

Notes to editors

The Clore Social Leadership Programme
The Clore Social Leadership Programme (CSLP) was established in 2008, with the appointment of Dame Mary Marsh as Founding Director, and it became a registered charity in July 2010. The Board of Trustees is chaired by Sir John Gieve. The Programme recruited its first cohort of 14 Clore Social Fellows in October 2009, who started their programme in January 2010.
www.cloresocialleadership.org.uk

Short biographies 2011 Clore Social Fellows

Mark Richardson - Calouste Gulbenkian Fellow
Mark's career has been driven by a passion for fairness, and for enabling people to reach their potential, particularly the most disadvantaged members of our society. When he left university, he was one of the founders of Aspire, a social enterprise that employs and trains homeless people. In 2006, he became Chief Executive of Fair Trade Wales, developing and running the campaign to make Wales the world's first Fair Trade country. Mark then joined Dwyfor Coffee to support the growth of Fairtrade by providing a reliable supply; he also wanted to develop his own business skills in the private sector in order to bring that learning back into the third sector.

Yaseer Ahmed
Yaseer has been a Non Executive Director at the Royal Bolton NHS Foundation Trust for the last 7 years. He is also Chief Officer at the Bolton Council of Mosques, a charity which represents over 30,000 Muslims through 22 Mosques. He has been a Vice Chair and Director at Bolton CVS and is Chair of the Strategic Race Independent Advisory Group to the GMPA. He also Chairs an award winning group called GEMS Getting Ethnic Minorities into Sport.

Jamie Audsley
Jamie is currently the Schools Coordinator at Citizens UK, the national home of community organising. Jamie grew up in South London and has always been passionate about social justice and how the status quo can be challenged. Jamie started as a researcher at The Young Foundation, then a project coordinator at London Youth and undertook the Teach First programme to spend two years as a Geography and Science teacher. He joined Citizens UK in 2009 and in June 2010, took on the lead role in the schools team.

Dan Berelowitz - Pears Fellow
Dan is the Director of Tzedek, the UK Jewish community's response to extreme poverty. Since taking up post in 2007, as the first Director, Tzedek has grown to an income of £360,000 and a staff team of five. Dan studied management at university and has previously worked for NGOs in the fields of environmental protection, international development and HIV and AIDS awareness. Dan is passionately committed to volunteering and has been on the board of a youth movement, worked with people suffering from mental illness and acted a lay advocate at a county court.

Natalie Campbell
Natalie is a qualified broadcast journalist, social entrepreneur and enterprise consultant. She is currently the interim Head of Digital for Enterprise UK, and an Assistant Producer for LBC 97.3. Natalie started her entrepreneurial journey as a student events consultant in 2004 and then went on to Make Your Mark to work as a Campaign Manager championing enterprise and entrepreneurship across Further and Higher Education. Natalie sits on the boards of The Consortium for Street Children, UnLtd and V, and completed a term as Vice-Chair Campaigns and Communications for the British Youth Council.

Ruth Campbell
Ruth is the Chief Officer at Comas, an Edinburgh-based community development organisation focused on developing a unique initiative in partnership with people recovering from addiction. Ruth's career has been dedicated to finding new ways to help people and communities overcome social exclusion. She initiated a range of national projects in Scotland to engage young people in sharing their experiences and views to inform decision making in public services. She also pioneered action research methods in youth organisations in Edinburgh to ensure that their new ideas and techniques could be properly assessed for their impact and generate lessons for future practice.

Mary Duffy
Mary is Assistant Director (Research & Influencing) with Barnardo's. As Assistant Director, she is responsible for external partnerships regarding evidence in practice/policy, she provides expertise across UK policy areas and she leads research in Scotland, where she is a member of the Executive Management Team. Mary held various posts at the Health Education Board Scotland, including Deputy Director (Research & Evaluation), after an initial career in academia. Since working with prisoners' families for the Ulster Quakers in 1990, Mary has often done voluntary work, including children's play in prison, befriending older people, mentoring the unemployed, and working with AIDS orphans in Ethiopia.

Esther Foreman
After completing an MPhil in Anthropology, Esther went to work in the charity sector campaigning for a variety of causes. She started off at Medecins Sans Frontieres and then moved to Shelter, where she successfully helped to secure Government commitment to building extra housing. She then had a stint at Help the Aged where she ran the successful Just Equal Treatment campaign to make age discrimination illegal. Esther currently works for Mencap where she manages the Policy and Campaigns Team. Esther lives in NW London, where she is also involved as a trustee for her local housing association.

Beth Green
Beth is an Assistant Director of Operations at The Children's Society, managing ten diverse programmes of work and overseeing 60 staff. Beth contributes to the organisation's strategy and working with the key external bodies to influence the agenda for young people. Beth has worked in the voluntary sector for over last ten years, both in the UK and internationally. Beth has a Mathematics Degree, a Social Policy Diploma, and is soon to complete an MBA at Cranfield University, for which she was awarded a full scholarship. Beth is a keen volunteer running weekends away for disabled children, working in night shelters and presently supporting the development of London City Steps, a social enterprise.

Richard Holmes - NESTA Fellow
Richard is the Service Manager for Study Support and Playing for Success at Gloucestershire County Council. He has overseen the development of 4 study support centres based in Gloucestershire's professional sports clubs. In 2007 he lead the development of a regional charity, which saw 21 study centres across the southwest work collaboratively on training and sustainability projects. He is particularly interested in the role social enterprise has to play in the delivery of public services. Before moving into local government, Richard worked for a national charity organising adventurous expeditions for people with disabilities. Prior to this he worked in commercial radio, organising events and publicity stunts. Richard is currently completing a Masters degree exploring the positive psychology in education.

Caroline Huntley - RNIB Fellow
Caroline is an Employment Development Officer for RNIB, taking a leading role in projects enabling unemployed blind and partially sighted people to gain the experience, knowledge and skills necessary to find sustained employment. Caroline manages an annual grant for blind and partially sighted law students and is involved in RNIB's 2012 project, developing volunteering and employment opportunities in an Olympic context. She previously worked as a speech and language therapist. Caroline led on the establishment of RNIB's Disabled staff forum and, in September 2008, was appointed to the ACAS Disabled People's Involvement Forum.

Laura Hyde
Laura is the Director of Services at KCLSU, the students' union at King's College London, managing a wide range of support services including advice, policy, volunteering, representation and student activities for over 20,000 students. She has worked in students' unions for 15 years and, during this time, has led on a number of key developments within her sector including seismic governance reform that is emulated nationally. She is a passionate champion of the third sector having been a volunteer advocate for adults with learning disabilities and is currently a trustee of Bromley Mencap. Laura holds a Masters in Psychology and a Diploma in Management.

Alison Kaye
Alison is Director of the London Work Based Learning Alliance, a not for profit organisation she established in 2003, in response to the need for training providers to formalise their external representation and presence. Previously, she has worked with young homeless people in a frontline capacity and in developing policy solutions, where her specialist areas were youth education, training and employment policy. Prior to working in the charity sector, Alison worked as a researcher looking at access to education and employment opportunities available to migrant groups in London.

Kate Stanley
Kate is Deputy Director of the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) where she works across a wide range of policy issues, but is an expert in social policy and social justice issues and has published widely in these areas. She has extensive high-level networks and is a regular media commentator and public speaker. Previously, she worked at Save the Children and for international development charities in the UK and overseas. She holds a range of positions on advisory panels and is regular reviewer for academic journals and the ESRC. She is Governor of Dorking Nursery School and Children's Centre and has two young children. In November, Kate starts at Family & Parenting Institute as Director of Research & Development.

Jonathan Taylor - Deloitte Fellow
Jonathan studied English at university and became a civil servant, before leaving to set up an office serving the Anglican parish of his local church in London. After a few years travelling, he returned to the UK and has worked extensively in Finance and Administration for the Cancer Resource Centre, the Institute for European Environmental Policy and now for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Centre. With some longstanding friends, Jonathan established a charity in 2001 (The Educational Frontier Trust), to fund a Kenyan led secondary school for pastoralist children in northern Kenya.

Jacqueline Williamson - Paul Hamlyn Fellow
Jacqueline is employed as Head of Fundraising & Development with a leading homeless charity in Northern Ireland. Prior to taking up this position, she established and developed the 'SmartMove' franchise comprising private sector housing and support services, which now operates across Northern Ireland. She is also the founder and Chairperson of 'Kinship Care Northern Ireland'. Jacqueline is a member of the Voluntary Housing Practitioners Forum and has considerable experience working with disadvantaged and marginalised housing groups. Jacqueline has a Degree, and a Masters Degree in Housing and a Masters in Public Administration.

Supporters:
The Clore Duffield Foundation
The Clore Duffield Foundation is contributing £1.5 million to the Clore Social Leadership Programme over its first three years.

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. www.cloreduffield.org.uk

Specialist Fellowship funders
The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
The Calouste Gulbenkian Fellowship in 2011 is for an aspiring leader committed to innovative approaches to policy and practical work with people experiencing multiple needs and exclusions. The Gulbenkian also funded a Fellowship in 2010, and continues to provide support in kind through free accommodation for the CSLP team at the Foundation's offices in Hoxton Square.

The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation is an international charitable foundation with cultural, educational and social interests. Based in Lisbon with offices in London and Paris, the Foundation is in a privileged position to support national and transnational work tackling contemporary issues. The purpose of the UK Branch in London is to connect and enrich the experiences of individuals, families and communities, with a special interest in supporting those who are most disadvantaged. It currently focuses its work on developing and supporting innovative projects and partnerships across the themes of cultural understanding, fulfilling potential, environment and social sector capacity building.
www.gulbenkian.org.uk

Deloitte
The Deloitte Fellowship for an aspiring leader with experience of financial responsibilities within a social sector organisation.

As a leading business advisory firm committed to developing its people, Deloitte will provide the Fellows of the Programme with access to the best in class facilities and training they will need in developing their leadership skills and talent. www.deloitte.co.uk

NESTA
The NESTA Fellowship in 2011 is for an aspiring leader committed to, and with a track record in, innovative practice, and working in frontline delivery of public services.

In 2010, NESTA funded a Fellowship for an individual interested in developing practical solutions to gaps in the supply and demand for social enterprise risk capital.

NESTA is the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts, a unique and independent body with a mission to make the UK more innovative. With the largest portfolio of early-stage businesses in the country, it is a leading authority on how to grow new ideas. It also stimulates imaginative solutions to pressing social issues and shapes policy to help the UK meet its national innovation challenges. www.nesta.org.uk

Pears Foundation
The Pears Fellowship is for an aspiring leader working in education, community development or welfare for the benefit of the Jewish community in the UK.

Pears Foundation is a UK-based family foundation rooted in Jewish values. Its work is concerned with positive identity and citizenship. www.pearsfoundation.org.uk

The Paul Hamlyn Foundation
The Paul Hamlyn Fellowship for an aspiring leader working in an organisation committed to securing social change for marginalised individuals and communities.

Paul Hamlyn Foundation is one of the larger independent grant-making foundations in the UK. Through its Education and Learning, Social Justice and Arts programmes, the Foundation makes grants to organisations which aim to maximise opportunities for individuals to experience a full quality of life, both now and in the future. In particular it is concerned with children and young people, and others who are disadvantaged.

The Foundation prefers to support work which others may find hard to fund, perhaps because it breaks new ground, is too risky or is unpopular. The Foundation also takes initiatives itself where new thinking is required or where it believes that there are important unexplored opportunities.

Paul Hamlyn Foundation funded two Fellowships in the first year of the Programme. www.phf.org.uk

RNIB
The RNIB Fellowship for a registered blind or partially sighted individual.
In both 2010 and 2011, the Royal National Institute of Blind People has funded a Fellowship for a registered blind or partially sighted individual.

RNIB is the UK's leading charity offering information, support and advice to over two million people with sight loss. The charity's pioneering work helps anyone with a sight problem - not just with braille and Talking Books, but with imaginative and practical solutions to everyday challenges. RNIB works to eliminate avoidable sight loss, supports people to be as independent as they want to be and campaigns to ensure society includes visually impaired people. www.rnib.org.uk

Other funders
Resolution Trust
The Resolution Trust is continuing its strategic partnership with the Clore Social Leadership Programme in 2011, with additional funding of £100,000.

The Resolution Trust was established in 2007 and makes grants to other charitable organisations or projects involving research and/or education in economic and social sciences, with a particular focus on the causes and prevention or relief of poverty. To date, the Trust's main activity has focused on the funding of the Resolution Foundation. The Foundation is a research and policy organisation concerned with how low earners fare in today's mixed economy. It aims to deliver change in areas where the income group is currently disadvantaged by producing new research and actively engaging in the policy making process. www.resolutionfoundation.org

The Monument Trust
The Monument Trust is providing funding for three Clore Social Fellowships over a three year period, with the first Fellow to be appointed in October 2010 to start in January 2011.

The late Simon Sainsbury established The Monument Trust in 1965, and since then the Trustees have approved close to £150 million in grants to a range of charities, predominantly in the UK. The content of the Trust's grant-making has been hugely varied and geographically wide, but includes funding of the arts and heritage; health and social care and criminal justice. www.sfct.org.uk

Capacitybuilders
Capacitybuilders awarded funding in support of the initial evaluation of the Clore Social Leadership Programme which has been undertaken by the Work Foundation. The Work Foundation's approach to evaluation is formative, helping the Programme to learn in order to improve and develop, and to share its learning with the wider third sector. Capacitybuilders funding covers the costs of the first two years of the four year evaluation. www.capacitybuilders.org.uk

Pro bono support
The Clore Social Leadership Programme is receiving pro bono support from a range of organisations, including Accenture, Editorial Intelligence and UnLtd, also from leadership training providers such as The Leadership Trust and London Business School.