Trusteeships, campaigns & causes
Trustee of The National Portrait Gallery.
Management Committee, Vice-President, National Council for One-Parent Families, 2000-
Gingerbread (Formed from the merger of the National Council for One Parent Families and Gingerbread), 1986-1996
Literature Panel, Arts Council of Great Britain, 1993-7
Executive Committee, Charter 88, 1992-7
London Library, twice served
Patron, Hypatia Trust, 1998-
Trustee, Artangel Trust, 1998-2004
Trustee, Open Democracy, 2001-3
Committee PEN, London, 2001-2004
Patron, Wonderful Beast Theatre Company, 2001-
Patron of the charities Reprieve, 2002-
Patron, Medical Foundation for the Victims of Torture, 2002-
Patron, Society for Story Telling, 2003-
Trustee, George Orwell Society, 2003-
Patron, Hosking Houses Trust, 2006-
