Dame Vivien Duffield is the Chairman of the Clore Duffield Foundation.  She is the founder and Life President of JW3, London’s Jewish Community Centre, which opened in 2013, founder of Eureka! Children’s museum in Halifax which opened in 1992 and Life President of the Clore Leadership Programme which she established in 2003. Dame Vivien is Chairman of the Clore Foundation in Israel and a life-long member of the Weizmann Institute of Science Executive Board. Dame Vivien was a member of the Board of the Royal Opera House from 1990 to 2001 and 2014 to 2022 and remains Chairman of the Royal Opera House Endowment Fund. She has served on the boards of a number of other UK charities including the Imperial War Museum Foundation, the Grange Park Opera appeal, Race Against Dementia, Balletboyz, the Southbank Centre from 2002 to 2016 and as Chairman of the Campaign for Oxford University.

Dame Vivien’s charitable work has been formally acknowledged by many institutions, both in the UK and in Israel. She was awarded the CBE in 1989, the DBE in 2000, and in 2008 HRH The Prince of Wales presented Dame Vivien with one of the first Medals for Arts Philanthropy. She attended Oxford University from 1963 -1966 is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Music, the Royal Academy of Music and of the Royal College of Art. She has honorary degrees from the University of Buckingham, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the Weizman Institute of Science in Israel and Imperial College, London.