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CHAIRMAN'S CORNER

With the support of various individuals and instances, and after a generous bequest, we gratefully acknowledge that the financial position of the TBF is much improved since the previous financial year. However this gives us no reason to relax our efforts in order to realise the Fund's ultimate vision of improved care for those in need.

The Board of Management would eventually like to be able to purchase property, where we can accomodate those senior colleages who do not have a proper place to live in. This will also mean finding staff to manage such a place of residence and obviously it will cost a lot of money. The TBF Board would like to build up a fund for this specific purpose as a matter of urgency. We are very aware that some of our beneficiaries are living in dire circumstances in utterly inadequate accomodation.

We need to stay diligently focussed on our efforts to "maintain the dignity of professional performers after they have taken their last bow and the curtain has fallen on their working lives!"

Thank you ---- Louis van Niekerk

The Theatre Benevolent Fund exists to maintain the dignity of professionals in that most precarious of occupations – SHOW BIZ.

The TBF is a welfare and humanitarian fund (it is registered as a Public Benefit Organization – PBO) that supports all individuals who have been connected to the performing arts on a professional basis - at any stage in their lives, and in any manner whatsoever - and who now find themselves in financial difficulties due to old age or ill health, by providing care to them in the form of monthly financial grants; donations for funeral expenses; assistance with medical expenses; placement in care centres or old age homes etc.