29/01/2025
Remember Tim Miller
Today is the day of Tim’s funeral. It will be both uplifting and heart-rending.
Tim was a founding light of this charity, guiding it into existence and mentoring the three of us who have taken it forward. We all have benefitted from his wisdom and his straightforward, unswerving humanity, as have many others.
Tim was one of the most remarkable men I have known in my life. He never chased fame or wealth, and always prioritised human kindness, empathy and culture over any material or selfish considerations. He was kindness personified, but he was so much more, always with words of wisdom to guide those who knew him to be the best person they could, but with no pressure or criticism, only encouragement and appreciation.
He achieved so much in his life, but in quiet, determined ways which attracted little attention except from those who knew him, who valued his wealth of knowledge and insight, and his guiding intelligence.
He could catch you unawares with a perfectly-timed recital of one of his favourite poems, which he had committed to his prodigious memory. He could sharpen your thoughts with his incisive observations, always delivered with grace and generosity. But when it was appropriate he could jump in feet first and get deeply involved, guiding and facilitating people’s progress in life.
He was a founder of the charity Centrepoint He was Churchwarden at St Anne’s church, Soho (where Centrepoint was founded). He was for fifteen years a probation officer, guiding many lost souls to a better path in life. He worked in film and taught at the Royal College of Arts, where he gained an Honorary Fellowship. Informally, he helped many of us to achieve more than we would otherwise have done.
Tim Miller: a life well and honourably lived.
