This period saved her from scrap, and preserved her for future generations. She had become a London landmark, marked on street maps, so was permitted to retain her warship title and name "HMS "President"" with the added suffix "(1918)" to distinguish her from the new shore establishment of the same name. Her sister ship, "Chrysanthemum" was hired to Steven Spielberg for the boat chase sequences shot in 1988 in Tilbury Docks for the film "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade". She was then laid up in the River Medway, where the brackish water rusted her hull so badly that she was scrapped in 1995. Numerous other activities including the establishment of WAC – the Weekend Arts College (now simply Wac Arts), the first Community Media Van, a community print shop including the publishing arm, Inter-Action In-Print, a film company, Infilms, a new centre on HMS President (1918), a free school and a plethora of media and computer projects from the 1980s onward; then two more theatre companies: the Old Age Theatre Society (OATS) working in old people's homes and the British American Repertory Company (BARC), the first joint company approved by both Equity Unions and both countries for non-star actors and stage staff. Additionally, he has been Chairman of the successful Save Piccadilly Campaign in the 1970s (to stop the high-rise office development surrounding the Circus) and the action against JP Morgan to open their blocking of a walkway/cycling path of the Thames Walkway on the Isle of Dogs. He continues to spend part of each year in India, advising on social enterprise projects, mainly with women, and environmental projects, especially water developments. He has worked in Hong Kong, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Russia, South Africa and India as a director/trainer as well as advising on developing new social enterprises. In Russia he worked as an adviser to three state ministers and in the UK as a non-party-political Special Advisor on inner city matters to Cabinet ministers, Michael Heseltine and Tom King. All of these he did whilst remaining in the Inter-Action Co-operative. During the 1960s, Berman became a prominent figure in British Alternative Theatre. In 1967, he became the playwright-in-residence at the Mercury Theatre in Notting Hill. In 1971 Berman set up the Almost Free Theatre on Rupert Street, Soho in the West End. The audiences paid what they could afford (at least one penny) to see a range of productions based on a range of social and political themes.