The Maddy Smith Grant is used to fund one celebration of Maddy's achievement, chosen from your suggestions.
The due date for your submission is 26/02/26.
You can submit digitally at any time OR in person at the following location on 25/02/26 @ 20.00:
Whatever you want! As long as you let me know before the deadline of 21.00 26/02/26. Whether it's orally, via powerpoint, poem, or some other medium, your entry will be judged equally.
Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy. - Proverbs 31:9, King James Version (KJV)
No, if you're scared you can do this with a buddy. If you're a big loser let know and I'll put you in touch with another of my loser friends.
Now I am alone.
O, what a rogue and peasant slave am I!
- Shakespeare, William. Hamlet. Act 2, scene 2, lines 577–634.
I want you to come up with an idea for a celebration to commemorate my life not sucking absolute shit anymore. It can be traditional or something more avant-garde. I will pay up to 600 pln to cover the costs.
Celebrate good times, come on! - Kool & The Gang. “Celebration.” Celebrate!, De-Lite Records, 1980.
I mean the money could go towards a party, an item, an entertainer, a class, food, or anything else. What do you think the money could be spent on that would make the best celebration? It could even be a free celebration if it's cool enough!
Why’d you have to go and make things so complicated? - Lavigne, Avril. “Complicated.” Let Go, Arista Records, 2002.
Changing seasons, ghosts, asparagus, having warm feet, the smell of passion fruit, body hair, cooking with butter, speaking German, spyhynx cats, riddles, adding to my savings account, jeans that fit, garter belts, being asked to hang out, sticky toffee pudding, stickers, bouldering, cutting things out with scissors, catching someone's eye, trinkets, antique stores, singing, my humidifier,
I have often thought that with any luck at all, I could have been born a werewolf, because the two middle fingers on both my hands are the same length, but I have had to be content with what I had. I dislike washing myself, and dogs, and noise. I like my sister Constance, and Richard Plantagenet, and Amanita phalloides, the death-cup mushroom. Everyone else in our family is dead. - Jackson, Shirley. We Have Always Lived in the Castle. Viking Press, 1962.
Around 10 people have been invited to join this pilot scheme. Depending on your idea for a celebration it could just be you and me, us and a couple of others, or a whole group event. I will invite everyone to hang out at some point to celebrate regardless - but this will not be grant funded.