Jenny Barraclough - Trusts and Charity

Trusts and Charity

Barraclough is Trustee and Chairman of the Grierson Trust which plays a leading role in supporting the quality documentary in the UK at a time when it is threatened by ratings and other commercial imperatives. As Trustee she has helped expand the event from a single award to an event with nine categories, and as Chairman she has initiated many new ideas including the specially commissioned films by young 'Newcomers'. She has expanded the Trust's activities into many new areas, like staging the popular National Film Theatre events that highlight ethical and other issues in documentary-making, mounting Master Classes with DocHouse where leading documentary makers share their skills with their audiences, and supporting festivals that honour the documentary. She has helped initiated three new Grierson Sheffield Awards at the Sheffield International Documentary Festival: the 'most innovative', best 'green' film and a 'youth award' for the film most admired by young audiences.

Jenny Barraclough made the influential programme 'The New Face of Leprosy' in 2001 which was shown to 27 million people on BBC World and then shown by many individual national networks and also by educational groups throughout the affected countries. As a Member of the Executive Board of LEPRA she has helped make decisions on the treatment of leprosy, TB and AIDS among thousands of people on three continents, speaking on the organisation's behalf and making fund raising films for them. She became chairman in 2007 and works closely with the CEO in managing a charity with a £12 million annual income and employing over 4,500 world wide.

She is a trustee of the Razumovsky Trust, which is the trust of the Razumovsky Ensemble and Academy