The Clore Social Leadership Programme has announced 16 new fellows on its training and mentoring programme for future civil society leaders.

The programme, which is in its second year, sees Clore Social Fellows follow a full or part-time course of up to 24 months. During this time fellows will attend two intensive residential courses, be mentored and coached, and go on an extended secondment and engage in ‘focused reflection and research.’

Minister for civil society Nick Hurd praised the scheme for developing new leaders for the Big Society:

“The Big Society needs confident leaders who are innovative, entrepreneurial and ready to take risks,” he said.

“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.”

Dame Mary Marsh, director of the Clore Social Leadership Programme added: “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 programme has attracted funding from a wide range of foundations, 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.

The new 2011 Clore Social Fellows are:

• 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.
   
• Mark Richardson, business development manager, Dwyfor Coffee Company, fair trade coffee supplier in Wales.
   
• 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.