Introducing… Creating Cultural Leadership South West 2007/2008
‘The British cultural sector is a success by any standards…[and if it] is to continue to prosper and grow as it should, we must recognise the role of our cultural leaders in delivering that success.' Rt Hon Gordon Brown MP, Chancellor of the Exchequer, June 2006
In January-February 2007, cultural sector professionals in the South West were invited to apply for 24 places on Creating Cultural Leadership South West - an innovative and nationally recognised professional development programme that is building leadership capacity across the arts; film, television and digital media; the historic, natural and built environment; museums, libraries and archives; sport; and tourism in the region.
Creating Cultural Leadership South West has grown out of a highly successful pilot programme for 26 delegates that ran for 12 months from April 2005.
Creating Cultural Leadership South West (CCLSW) aims to:
- Inspire and support emerging and mid-career leaders in the region's cultural sector
- Build confidence and encourage individual and organisational change
- Increase and reflect diversity in cultural leadership
- Critique leadership in general and cultural leadership in particular, and contribute to ongoing regional, national and international debates
- Encourage cross-sectoral working
- Facilitate the sharing of skills, knowledge and approaches across and beyond the cultural sector
- Support mobility across all cultural sector domains in the region
- Help build a South West cultural sector ‘human resource bank'
- Raise the profile and impact of the cultural sector in the region
CCLSW is supported by the Treasury funded Cultural Leadership Programme and a host of regional agencies (including Arts Council England South West, Sport England South West, Tourism Skills Network and South West Screen). It is coordinated on behalf of Culture South West by the Centre for Leadership Studies at the University of Exeter , in partnership with Dartington College of Arts.
CCLSW has three Joint Programme Directors (Sue Kay, Mary Schwarz and Josie Sutcliffe) and a part-time Administrator (Kay Bishop/Ian Sutherland).
For further information please contact:
Kay Bishop, CCLSW Administrator at kay.bishop @ exeter.ac.uk or on 01392 269231
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