Helping creative entrepreneurs lead the way

In June 2006, the current Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, spoke about the importance of support for culture in the UK and the ongoing need for leadership in that sector, urging the community to recognise the role of our current and future leaders in delivering success in our cultural industries. In order to achieve such aims the government allocated a grant of 12 million pounds to The Cultural Leadership (CLP) programme, an initiative designed to foster management and leadership in the arts industries and cultural sector. As Brown noted when launching the programme, ‘…we need to ensure the emergence of a new generation of cultural leaders… the Cultural Leadership Programme will create new opportunities for collaboration across the public and business sector’.