Jenny Barraclough

Education

Street Hilda"s College.

Career

Much of her work is in television documentaries. She has also been involved in a number of trusts and charities. They include the Grierson Trust (Chairman between 2006 and 2009) and LEPRA (Chairman between 2007 and 2011) and the Razumovsky Ensemble of which she is a Trustee.

Barraclough was one of the first women television producers.

Barraclough"s film Gale is Dead (1971) was one of the first to draw attention to young homeless and drug addicts and contributed to the establishment of a House of Commons committee. In the 1980s she made two films on Queen Elizabeth II and two on 10 Downing Street for British Broadcasting Corporation One.

Barraclough also produced films on the arts, including one on the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition and a major series on the London Symphony Orchestra in 1986. Barraclough"s films on Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome helped promote understanding of the disease in its early days.

Barraclough also produced other series focused on medicine, including series on transplant surgey and the history of cancer.

Films for British Broadcasting Corporation World have included projects on leprosy (2001), vaccination (2004), and international efforts to prevent the spread of avian flu. In 2005 Barraclough produced a widely distributed film on the MMR vaccine for the Department of Health. Barraclough was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) in the 2009 Birthday Honours.

Foreign the British Broadcasting Corporation

Barraclough Carey Productions

Barraclough was trustee and Chairman of the Grierson Trust which plays a leading role in supporting the quality documentary in the United Kingdom at a time when it is threatened by ratings and other commercial imperatives.

As trustee she helped expand the event from a single award to an event with nine categories, and as as Chairman she initiated many new ideas including the specially commissioned films by young "Newcomers". She 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 helped initiate three new Grierson Sheffield 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 British Broadcasting Corporation World and then shown by many individual national networks and also by educational groups throughout the affected countries.

She became chairman in 2007 and worked closely with the Chief Executive Officer 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. The Academy helps outstanding young musicians reach international standard and encourages classical music in some of London’s less privileged schools.

Achievements

• Jenny Barraclough won many awards for the British Broadcasting Corporation and for Barraclough Carey (founded in 1988, later Mentorn Barraclough Carey) which won many international awards for its documentaries, both singles and multi-part.

Membership

She was made a member of two British Broadcasting Corporation think tanks. As a Member of the Executive Board of LEPRA she helped make decisions on the treatment of leprosy, Tuberculosis and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome among thousands of people on three continents, speaking on the organisation"s behalf and making fund raising films for them.