My father, Charles Brooker, who has died aged 83, worked hard in a voluntary capacity for his local community in Greenwich, south-east London, for more than 30 years.
His day job was, for most of his life, with HSBC Trust Company, where he administered some of the largest corporate pension funds in Britain. But his leftwing ideals led him to become a Labour activist in Greenwich in the 1960s, and in 1978 he became a Labour councillor. Always interested in the arts, he represented Greenwich council on the board of Greenwich theatre a community-based project offering affordable seats for high-quality productions. When he left the council he was co-opted on to the theatre's board, later serving as its chairman.
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