Management
Mission:
To preserve, nurture and promote folk culture as an essential element in Australian life.
We Value:
- Diverse traditions
- A welcoming community
- Tradition bearers and the passing on of tradition
- Participation
- Volunteering and the community it generates
- Sustainability
- A safe environment
- Respect for self and others
- Contemporary expression of tradition
About the Organisation
The National Folk Festival is a limited-liability non-profit company formed for the purpose of presenting the event. It has a volunteer Board of Directors with a broad range of skills and experience which is elected from amongst members of the Company. Company members are current and past Board members, and current and past appointed Directors of the event. Almost all Board members have served in a volunteer and core volunteer capacity before serving on the Board.
The Board appoints a small core of paid staff, who organise another small team of core office volunteers and key contractors. This small crew of paid staff, core office volunteers and key contractors manage the entire event, including the program, with the large team of volunteer Coordinators and volunteers.
Board of Directors 2009-2010
- President: David Garratt, BEd Grad Dip RE, ex-Principal of Daramalan College, Board Member of Northside Community Services, Assistant-Coordinator of the Festival Shop 1997-2004, Board member from 2003.
- Vice-President: Lyndal Thorburn, BSc(Hons), Grad dip Legal studies, PhD FAICD, Board member from 2007.
- Treasurer: Graham Cruttenden, BBus (Accounting), Treasury Coordinator 1994-2002, Board member from 1997.
- Secretary:Graham Chalker, former CEO Australia Mobile Telecommunications Association, former General Manager of Sing Australia, folk musician. Board member from 2006.
- Member: Pam Cogar, Festival volunteer Publications Officer, former Coordinator of the Festival Office, Board member from 1999 to 2005 and from 2008.
- Member:Phil Green, Commissioner of ACT Electoral Commission, folk musician.
- Member: Peter Logue, Media and Communications Manager, Consumers Health Forum of Australia, folk musician. Board member from 2006.
- Member: Mark Cranfield, former Director - Oral History, National Library of Australia, folk historian. Board member from 2006.
- Member:Colleen McKenzie, Director - Human Resources at the Therapeutic Goods Administration.
Core Staff
- Managing Director: Sebastian Flynn
- Artistic Director: Dave O’Neill
- Human Resources & Volunteer Manager: Jess Henderson
- Production Manager: Rachel Gould
- Accounts Manager: Nelle Smith
- Artistic Directors Assistant & Stalls: Carolyn Griffin
- IT Manager: Jeff Power
- Publications Officer: Pam Cogar
- Media and Communications: Jane Speechley
Governance Charter
This Charter sets out the role, composition and responsibilities of the Board of
Directors of the National Folk Festival Ltd. (the Company). The
Charter aims to ensure that responsibility is properly sourced and that there is a
high level of accountability, clarity and transparency of roles and decision-making
authority between the Board, members, staff and volunteers.
A copy of the Charter can be down loaded by clicking on this link - NFF Ltd Governance Charter
