Clore Duffield Foundation

The Clore Duffield Foundation, born from the merger of visionary philanthropic legacies, drives transformative opportunities through excellence, innovation, and engagement in arts, cultural learning, heritage, education, social welfare, health, and Jewish cultural life. Rooted in founders' ethos of enriching cultural access for all, it champions accessibility, inclusion, personal development, creativity, and leadership, believing systemic change arises from high-quality, people-focused programmes fostering social mobility, experiential learning, and sector diversity via flexible, responsive partnerships and capacity-building investments in long-term impact.

It prioritizes cultural learning initiatives like Clore Learning Spaces in museums, galleries, and heritage sites delivering hands-on creative arts activities, interactive exhibitions, and school outreach for children and young people, innovative digital resources enhancing teachers' cultural education tools, arts engagement programmes including theatre, opera, and performing arts residencies sparking creativity and confidence in disadvantaged youth, community outreach tackling social isolation through inclusive heritage visits and playmaking schemes, leadership development via fellowships and board training cultivating diverse future leaders in creative sectors, capital projects creating dedicated learning centres for vulnerable children experiencing barriers to cultural participation, and Jewish cultural life enhancements promoting community cohesion and identity through arts-based activities. Supported interventions emphasize experiential, preventative engagement preventing exclusion, therapeutic creativity building emotional resilience, and community-led programming addressing wellbeing needs of children aged 5-19, young people facing social mobility challenges, families seeking accessible cultural enrichment, and isolated individuals via peer-inspired arts and heritage encounters.

Distinctive for catalysing UK-wide leadership networks shaping cultural policy, commissioning research on inclusion, and agile high-trust grantee relationships, it excludes feasibility studies, favouring proven high-ambition projects with clear impact on creativity, learning, and diversity. Priorities target children and young people from underserved backgrounds, vulnerable groups denied cultural access, and organizations demonstrating innovative, evidence-based excellence in arts education, heritage outreach, and social welfare, uniquely blending Jewish cultural vitality with broad public good through transformative environments and people-centred innovation.