Actor Simon Callow will read from the works of Charles Dickens at a special event next week to mark the 150th anniversary of the Journalists' Charity.
Dickens, initially a journalist and later founder-editor of the Daily News, was one of the people who helped to set up the charity (then called the Newspaper Press Fund) in 1864.
Other readers at the service at St Bride's, nicknamed "the "cathedral of Fleet Street", will be Paul Dacre and David Dinsmore, editors respectively of the Daily Mail and The Sun, Murdoch MacLennan and Simon Fox, chief executives respectively of the Telegraph Media Group and Trinity Mirror, and Alex Crawford, a special correspondent with Sky News.
The thanksgiving service, which takes place next Thursday (20 February), starting at 11.30am, will be conducted by the rector of St Bride's, the Venerable David Meara.
The Journalists' Charity is run by journalists for journalists. It operates it own retirement, care and after-care homes and spends £400,000 a year on grants and emergency payments to journalists in trouble.
More details here on the charity's website or email the chairman at laurie@upshon.com
