My friend and former colleague, David Powell, who has died aged 78, was, for a quarter of a century from 1968 onwards, the backbone of Inter-Action – one of the most influential arts, education and development charities of its time.
If its mercurial founder-director Ed Berman was the front legs, David said, then he was the back legs of the Inter-Action pantomime horse. During David’s time there Inter-Action spawned, among other things, the City Farms movement, the Weekend Arts College, a menagerie of arts buses, and spin-off projects in several counties. The Inter-Action centre in London’s Kentish Town, the construction of which David oversaw, was of the UK’s first purpose-built community arts and resource centre.
