Clore Duffield Foundation: Clore Learning Spaces
Overview
Who and what do they fund?
The Foundation only funds charities registered in the UK.
They do not accept unsolicited applications except within occasional grant programmes that may be announced from time to time. Outside of such opportunities, unsolicited approaches will not be considered.
For capital projects, please note that they do not fund feasibility studies and if RIBA stages apply, you should have reached at least RIBA Stage 3 before trustees will consider an application, although they are happy to have earlier conversations with potential applicants.
Clore Learning Spaces Programme
The Clore Duffield Foundation has funded more than 65 museum, gallery, heritage and performing arts learning spaces across the UK since 2000. These range from £2.5m Clore Learning Centres in national museums, to donations of less than £50,000 to fund small Clore Studios with local authority museums.
They would like to support smaller cultural organisations, right across the UK, to create Clore Learning Spaces. They have created a dedicated Small Clore Fund to encourage applications.
Their donations to fund learning spaces have varied from £40,000, to £2.5m at the very top end for very extensive projects in national museums.
Funding programmes
Small Clore Fund
The Foundation would like to support more small to mid-sized arts and heritage organisations, with grants of up to £250,000, to develop Clore Learning Spaces. This could include building a new space or repurposing existing rooms. If you run an arts, heritage organisation or library with charitable status, have an annual turnover of less than £5 million, and a public facing remit, please take a look at the Learning Space Guidelines and the Space for Learning handbook and their FAQs. If, having read these, you think you are a good fit for funding, please contact them at info@cloreduffield.org.uk.
Fit for the Future Fund
Existing Clore Learning Spaces can apply for a small capital grant to refurbish or re-equip their space to better meet the needs of users. They will prioritise organisations whose Clore Learning Space is over five years old, or, in the case of more recent Clore Learning Spaces, those who can demonstrate that the investment will make a step change to their learning and engagement offer - for example, to enable complex digital delivery or to adapt spaces for a broader range of learners. Grants of up to 10% of the original value (or 5% for grants over £1m) may be applied for. If you are interested and think you have a compelling case, please contact them at info@cloreduffield.org.uk
New Initiatives
Main Initiatives
- JW3 - JW3 was established by Dame Vivien Duffield, with funding from the Foundation, and opened in 2013. It is a vibrant, cross-communal hub for Jewish arts, culture, family programming, social action and learning where everyone is welcome.
- Clore Leadership Programme - Clore Leadership was initiated by the Clore Duffield Foundation in 2003. Now recognised as one of the world’s best cultural leadership programmes, it continues to develop leadership potential across the cultural and creative sectors.
- Clore Social Leadership - Clore Social Leadership, developed by the Foundation in 2008, was based on learning from the Clore Leadership programme and developed in response to the lack of leadership development opportunities in the charity sector.