Sue Woodford-Hollick, Lady Hollick

Sue Woodford-Hollick, Lady Hollick
OBE
Born (1945-05-16) 16 May 1945 (age 79)
Other namesSue Woodford
Alma materUniversity of Sussex
Occupation(s)Businesswoman, consultant, journalist
SpouseClive Hollick, Baron Hollick
Children3
FatherUlric Cross

Susan Mary Woodford-Hollick, Baroness Hollick OBE (born 16 May 1945)[1] is a British businesswoman and consultant with a wide-ranging involvement in broadcasting and the arts. A former investigative journalist, she worked for many years in television (as Sue Woodford), where her roles included producer/director of World in Action[2] for Granada TV and founding commissioning editor of Multicultural Programmes for Channel Four.[3] As a campaigner for human rights, world health, literacy, and the arts, she serves as trustee or patron of a range of charities and foundations. She is founder and co-director of Bringing up Baby Ltd,[4] a childcare company. Other causes and organisations with which she is associated include the African Medical and Research Foundation (AMREF),[5] the Leader's Quest Foundation,[6] Complicité theatre company, Reprieve, the Free Word Centre, the Runnymede Trust and the SI Leeds Literary Prize.[7] Of English and Trinidadian heritage, she is the wife of Clive Hollick, Baron Hollick, with whom she has three daughters.[8]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference Woman's Hour was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Sue Woodford page at IMDb.
  3. ^ Dorothy Hobson, Channel 4: The Early Years and the Jeremy Isaacs Legacy, I.B. Tauris & Co, 2006, pp. 68–70.
  4. ^ Management team, Bringing Up Baby.
  5. ^ Cite error: The named reference AMREF was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  6. ^ LQ Foundation Trustees Archived 29 August 2011 at the Wayback Machine, Leader's Quest.
  7. ^ "Sue Woodford-Hollick", SI Leeds Literary Prize. Retrieved 24 March 2024.
  8. ^ "UK: Masterclass – Hollick's Nights at the Movies", Management Today, 1 January 1997.