About Us
What is the NSEAD?
The National Society for Education in Art and Design is the leading
national authority concerned with art, craft and design across all phases
of education in the United Kingdom. We offer, for a single subscription,
the extensive benefits of membership of a professional association, a
learned society and a trade union*.
Our authority is partly based on more than one hundred years' experience
and concern for the subject. We have long-established contacts within
government and its various agencies, with local education authority departments
and other educational and cultural organisations in the United Kingdom.
A particular strength is our extraordinary breadth of membership drawn
from every sector of formal and informal art, craft and design education,
together with an increasing number of overseas associate members. The
NSEAD is the United Kingdom affiliate of the
International Society for Education through Art, an UNESCO
non-governmental organisation with which we maintain very close
links.
The NSEAD's unique membership position makes it the only educational
organisation which is able to draw on opinions of practising experts and
to promote policies for, and on behalf of, all sectors of art, craft and
design education. The Society is an independent trade union within the
meaning of Section 30 of the Trade Union and Labour Relations Act 1974.
In 1996 the NSEAD established The Athene Trust, a charitable company with
which we work in close association.
* Trade Union benefits are only available for those who reside and work
in the United Kingdom.