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NSDF
Mature Students
ACT I
Martin
Jenkins
Diana
Jervis Reade
Barbara
Matthews
Rosemary
Squire
ACT II
David
Crook
Robert
Hewison
Ben Miller
Donna
Munday
Honorary
Clive
Wolfe
Pat Wolfe
Wish List
NSDF
often gets asked whether there is a wish list of what we
would like donations for. It is probably easier to talk
about how the donations are used and what they can achieve:
“Something will come of Something”
£100
would pay for a bursary to help a young person who would
genuinely find it difficult to take part for financial or
access reasons
£150
would pay for a Visiting Artist to come and spend two days
at the Festival, providing workshops and advise for our
students
£1500
would pay for four International artists to come and work
with the students for the whole week
£5000
would pay for our entire National Workshop Programme, less
the necessary administration costs
£15,000
would mean that we can run a competition in Edinburgh in
which every single piece of student new work gets seen by an
NSDF Selector,
reviewed and the students given feedback. It would also mean
one of these pieces of work would receive a transfer to a
London theatre.
£25,000
would pay for our team of highly experienced Selectors to
see up to 120 pieces of student work throughout the country
each year. It is from this pool of work that NSDF chooses
the most extraordinary ten shows to be presented at the
Festival each year
Student Bursaries
“It was during that time (NSDF83) that I
finally decided to become a professional actor and I was
encouraged to do so by the judges of the festival and, above
all, by the great Clive Wolfe, the mastermind behind the
whole event. To them, and to him, I owe a huge debt.”
(Simon Russell Beale)
NSDF08
will see the launch of our bursary scheme.
NSDF
Student Bursaries Scheme aims to ensure that we are able to
support
talented
students who wish to take part in the festival, regardless
of their financial circumstances. The knowledge that
NSDF is able to offer
bursaries has the added benefit of encouraging applications
from those who might otherwise dismiss the possibility of
drama training for financial reasons.
Our
generous supporters of our Bursaries have the satisfaction
of knowing they will make a huge difference to students.
Please
phone NSDF
office to find out about donating to our Bursary scheme.
Mature Students
NSDF Friends’ Scheme –
NSDF Mature
Students
How many friends did you make at the National
Student Drama Festival? How many of those people would you
like to see again; to work with again? At
NSDF we want to take
care of our old friends so that we can carry on helping our
new ones.
The NSDF
has been providing a unique artistic and edifying experience
for young practitioners since 1956. We believe there are
well over 100,000 NSDF progenies out
there who have been involved over the years, starting as
students and often coming back as workshop leaders and
professional supporters. It is amazing to think that there
is barely a theatre, production company or show in the UK
that doesn’t have someone from NSDF
working on it.
If the NSDF
has played has played an important part in your life you
might want to consider joining the
NSDF Friends’ Scheme –
NSDF Mature Students.
As well as contributing to debates and issues affecting the
future of the festival you can track down old friends, or
harass old critics, and find out what they are up to now.
Your annual subscription will help the
NSDF to: stage the festival each year; give
bursaries to students who could not otherwise afford to take
part in the festival; offer a FREE National Workshop
programme across the UK; produce an annual student Edinburgh
Fringe Festival New Work Competition in conjunction with The
Bush Theatre; administrate our Script Library at the Tabard
Theatre, London.
Sign-up as a Mature Student and you will
receive the following:
Act I
– minimum donation of £25 a year
Advance News and Information
Advance e-mail information via a regular
e-flyer to all of our Mature Students.
Access to the Mature Students pages on the
NSDF website,
which will include a message board and space to post up your
comments and photos from your time at the
NSDF. You will also be
able to talk about what you are doing now.
Opportunities and Offers
Invitations to Special Events.
Access to the NSDF Script Library.
Invitation for you and a friend to the launch
of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival New Work Competition at
both The Bush Theatre, London and in Edinburgh.
Name recognition on the
NSDF website.
Act II
– minimum donation £100 a year
Discounts
Discounted copy of Raw Talent
– fifty years of the NSDF.
Advance News and Information
Advance e-mail information via a regular
e-flyer to all of our Mature Students.
Access to the Mature Students pages on the
NSDF website,
which will include a message board and space to post up your
comments and photos from your time at the
NSDF. You will also be
able to talk about what you are doing now.
Opportunities and Offers
Invitations to Special Events.
Access to the NSDF
Script Library.
Invitation for you and a friend to the launch
of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival New Work Competition at
both The Bush and in Edinburgh.
Name recognition on the
NSDF website, the
NSDF programme,
at the NSDF
Script Library.
Invitation for you and a friend to the annual
NSDF Party.
“The best bits were the workshops with Jane
Howell and Mike Alfreds, and mixing it up with other
students from around the country.”
(Roger Michell)
“The Festival’s the thing”
Becoming a Mature Student
To become an NSDF
Mature Student, just download this form
and return by snail mail to the NSDF
office, 19-20 Rheidol Mews, London, N1 8NU.
The NSDF
is a registered charity and each year the Director and the
Board of Trustees raise funds to ensure they keep helping
great new theatre and artists.
Not surprisingly, as with all arts
organisations, this means that there are annual financial
demands that need to be met. The NSDF
is lucky enough to receive income from entry fees and the
box office, whilst also being supported by a number of
organisations including the Arts Council and the Sunday
Times. However, for the NSDF
to continue its unique work, further major fundraising
targets have to be met every year.
As a registered charity the
NSDF can claim Gift
Aid. If you are a UK tax-payer you can tick the Gift Aid box
on the form. This means that for every pound you give, the
NSDF will
receive an extra 28 pence from Inland Revenue. This means
that your £25 can be turned into £32, or £100 into £128 –
and it doesn’t cost you a thing. You simply tick the box
when you complete the form.
We look forward to hearing from you. Do let
me know if you have any friends who would like to sign up. -
holly@nsdf.org.uk
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