The Clore Duffield Foundation is to invest £1.5 million, over the next three years, in a new leadership programme to develop emerging talent in the third sector.

The Clore Social Leadership Programme will include formal leadership training, specialist training bursaries, secondments, a research period and access to a mentor. It is anticipated that the programme will open to applicants in early 2009.

The programme is modelled on the Clore Leadership Programme for the cultural sector, which has been running for the past four years. The Foundation’s founder, Dame Vivien Duffield, said: “Having discovered over the last four years what can be achieved in raising the game for the cultural sector, it has long been my intention to develop leadership for the whole of the third sector.”

For more on the new programme, visit www.cloreduffield.org.uk