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The Actors' Charitable Trust

robert@tactactors.org ........ Telephone 020 7636 7868

TACT, 58 Bloomsbury Street, London WC1B 3QT

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President:  Lord Attenborough CBE
Joint Chairmen:  Geraldine James OBE and Lalla Ward 
Treasurer:  Tim Denham FCA 
Chairman of the Welfare Committee:  Isla Blair

Chairman of the Denville Hall House Committee:  Lalla Ward

Vice Presidents: The Lady Attenborough, Jane Downs, Lady Freud, Judy Littler, Sir Cameron Mackintosh, Muriel Pavlow, Angela Thorne, Nigel Seale and Simon Williams.

Ambassadors: Kim Cattrall, Sir Richard Eyre, Michael Frayn, Sir Peter Hall, Dame Helen Mirren, Sir Patrick Stewart, Sir Tom Stoppard, Professor Lord Winston.

Council members: Patricia Brake, Alister Cameron, Claire Carroll, Anna Carteret, Judith Coke, Catherine Comerford, Peter Forbes, Elizabeth Garvie, Elspet Gray, Bernard Holley, Abigail McKern, Doreen Mantle, Jane Maud, Adam Napier and Paul Shelley.
Staff:  Robert Ashby (General Secretary), Hayley Bartram (Welfare Adviser).

Past Presidents: Sir Henry Irving (1896–1905), Cyril Maude (1905–14), Sir Gerald du Maurier(1914–34), Sir Noel Coward (1934–56) and Lord Olivier (1956– 89).

Past Vice Presidents include: Sir John Gielgud, Ivor Novello, Constance Cummings, Margaretta Scott, Sir Alec Guinness, Emlyn Williams, Jill Esmond, Lord Grade, Dame Gladys Cooper, Dame Edith Evans, Sir Emile Littler, Sir Michael Redgrave, Jack Hawkins, Gertrude Lawrence, Lorn Lorraine, Frank Lawton, Herbert Beerbohm Tree, Jessie Winter and Wendy Toye.

TACT helps the children of actors under the age of 21 with grants, advice and support.

TACT was founded as The Actors’ Orphanage Fund in 1896 by Kittie Carson. The first orphanage was at Morland Road, East Croydon, followed by Langley Hall and then Silverlands in Chertsey, with a hostel for older teenagers in Rutland Gate, London. Since mid-1958 TACT has helped children in their own homes.

A full history is available free of charge on request, by post or as a .doc e-mail attachment. Please contact robert@tactactors.org.

Since 1965 TACT has also run Denville Hall, the retirement and nursing home for elderly actors and actresses, including those with dementia.
 
 
 
TACT is a registered charity, number 206809.



 
 

Information correct at June 2010