Founded in 1985, the Directors Guild Trust is the charity arm of the Guild, supporting both Guild activities and the wider remit of promoting British directors' art and craft to a national and international public through education, events, commemorations and memorials.
The charitable aims of the Trust are:
- To educate the public in the art of direction
- To promote and celebrate British directors and their work
- To train and to fund the training of British directors
- To support impoverished or disabled directors
Currently the Trust runs the DIRECT ACCESS Feature Film Directors' Mentoring Scheme, sponsored by Skillset and Film Four and is preparing blue plaque memorials for famous British film directors.
Our patrons are Sir Alan Parker OBE and Nicolas Roeg.
The Trustees of the Directors Guild Trust are:
Simon Campbell Jones (Secretary), Anthony Simmons, Victoria Farrow , Rebecca Haynes, Rosemary Hill, Elisa Holmes, Karen Johnson, Vladimir Mirodan, Ivor Benjamin
The Trust (Charity No. 326673) welcomes sponsorship and charity donations and if an individual donor completes a GIFTAID form, the Government will pay a further 28% to the Guild.This form is an Adobe Acrobat .PDF file.
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