Support funds.
The NATD has two support funds that are available to support in training and in service drama and theatre educators. We are always looking for ways to top up the funds and at each conference there will be an event or activity that encourages you to contribute. Please give generously.
Mary Simpson Fund
For nearly 20 years, members of NATD who require financial assistance to attend our events have been supported by the Mary Simpson Fund. Dorothy Heathcote and Gavin Bolton were close friends of Mary. Gavin outlines the history of the woman in whose name so many teachers have been able to attend our Conferences and Regional events.
Mary bequeathed a sum of money to continue the nurturing of students and young Drama teachers. In 1992, Dorothy Heathcote and Tony Grady recommended to the NATD committee of that year that using this money a fund be set up to enable all members to attend Conference. That fund still exists in Mary’s name and continues to ensure that all who wish to can attend our events.
Apply For Financial Support.
Please use the form below to send a request for financial support to attend an NATD event.
Tony Grady Fund
Tony Grady was twice chair of the national executive of NATD. He was an outstanding leader, always careful to develop the theory and practice of drama and theatre in education, always with the needs of the young firmly at the heart of all endeavour. Tony was also on the editorial committee of The Journal of NATD for seven years, again providing a focus and leadership that was second to none. Underpinning all of Tony’s work was a great humanity born of which was his leadership of ‘NATD to think and work as internationalists’. He was a founder of the International Association for Drama and Theatre and Education, and led developmental work in Bosnia, Serbia and Kosova, always working to bring international delegates to NATD conferences.
In 2003 Tony died, much mourned and missed, not only for his insight and guidance, but also because he was a good mate to so many of us. When the arrangements for his funeral were being discussed his partner, Angela, asked that, instead of flowers, money should be donated to NATD to create a fund for bringing international delegates to NATD conferences. In this way, through the Tony Grady fund, NATD seeks to continue, both in conviction and in action, an internationalist practice.
Tony Grady in Neum, Bosnia in February 2001.