Richard Attenborough - Corporate Appointments

Corporate Appointments

• The Actors Charitable Trust. Chairman 1956-88, President 1988-
• Equity. Council Member 1949-73
• Royal Theatrical Fund Board of Directors. Vice President 1985-
• Muscular Dystrophy Campaign. Vice President 1962-71, President 1971-2004, Life President 2004-
• Cinema and Television Benevolent Fund. Council Member 1962-2003, Vice Patron 2003-
• King George V Fund for Actors. Committee Member 1962-73, Trustee 1973-
• Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA). Member of Council 1963-73, Chairman 1973-2003, President 2003-
• Combined Theatrical Charities Appeals Council. Chairman 1964-88, President 1988-
• Royal Society of Arts. Life Fellow 1965
• Chelsea Football Club. Vice President 1966, Director 1969-82, Life Vice President 1993-2008, Life President 2008-
• Cinematograph Films Council Member 1967-73
• Gardner Centre for the Arts, University of Sussex. Patron 1969-90, President 1990-
• National Film and Television School. Governor 1970-81, President 1977-
• University of Sussex. Pro Chancellor 1970-98, Chancellor 1998-2008
• BAFTA. Vice President 1971-94, Chairman of David Lean BAFTA Foundation Trustees 1972-2002, President 2002-
• Capital Radio. Chairman 1972-92, Life President 1992-
• The Little Theatre, Leicester. Patron 1973-92, Honorary Life President 1992-
• The Young Vic Theatre Company. Director 1974-84
• "Help a London Child". Founder & Life Patron 1998-
• Tate Gallery. Trustee 1976-82 & 1994-96
• Waterford Kamhlaba School, Swaziland. Chairman UK Trustees 1976-2004, Member Governing Council 1987-, President 2004-
• Duke of York's Theatre. Chairman 1979-92
• Channel Four Television Corporation. Deputy Chairman 1980-86, Chairman 1986-92
• Board of Governors of the British Film Institute. Chairman 1981-92
• Goldcrest Films & Television. Chairman 1982-87
• Kingsley Hall Community Centre. (Mahatma Gandhi lodged there in 1931) Patron 1982-
• Committee of Enquiry into the Arts and Disabled People: Reporting on access and inclusion. Chairman 1983-85
• The Gandhi Foundation. President 1983-
• Brighton Festival. President 1984-85
• British Film Year. President 1984-86
• British Screen Advisory Council. Chairman 1987-96, Honorary President 1996-
• UNICEF. Goodwill Ambassador 1987-
• European Script Fund. Chairman 1988-96, Honorary President 1996-
• Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond, London. Patron (with Lady Attenborough) 1988-
• Arts For Health. President 1989-
• European Film Academy. Co-founder (with Ingmar Bergman, Federico Fellini and Claude Chabrol) 1989
• Richard Attenborough Centre for Disability and the Arts, University of Leicester. Patron 1990-
• Foundation for Sport and the Arts. Trustee 1991-2003, President 2003-
• Chicken Shed Theatre Company. Honorary Patron 1992-
• One World Action. Patron 1992-
• Satyajit Ray Foundation. Patron 1995-
• Oxford University, Cameron Mackintosh Visiting Professor of Contemporary Theatre. 1996
• Sussex Centre for German-Jewish Studies. Patron 1996-
• United World Colleges. Member of the International Board 1996-2000, International Patron 2000-
• Amnesty International. Patron 1997-
• Mousetrap Theatre Projects. Trustee 1997-
• The Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fund. Trustee 1998
• UK Film Council. Government Advisor 1999-
• Sir John Gielgud Charitable Trust. Trustee 2001-
• Themba HIV/AIDS Project in South Africa. Patron 2002-
• Unicorn Theatre. Patron 2002-
• Mandela Statue Fund. Chairman 2003-2007
• St Edward's Oxford North Wall Arts Centre. Patron and Steering Committee Member 2005-
• CLIC Sargent. Ambassador 2006-
• Greater London Fund for the Blind. Vice President 2006-
• The Richard Attenborough Regional Film Critics Award. Patron 2007-

Attenborough also heads a committee awarding the eponymous Attenborough Prize, a £2,000 annual arts prize celebrating creativity by emerging artists. The Attenborough Prize is awarded to the best contemporary visual artist among a shortlist of six artists presented to Lord Attenborough.