The Neale-Wade Association
The Neale-Wade Association oversees a trust fund established originally in 1992 and awards grants to pupils and activities connected to the school.
This website shares information about the Neale-Wade Association and former students and teachers of The Neale-Wade Academy, March Grammar School, March High School, and Hereward School, March.

Scotty’s Little Soldiers
The core connection between Neale-Wade and Scotty’s Little Soldiers is rooted in the memory of Corporal Lee "Scotty" Scott, who was a former student at the March school.
www.scottyslittlesoldiers.co.uk
The charity was founded in 2010 by Nikki Scott following the death of her husband, Corporal Lee Scott, in Afghanistan in 2009. Lee attended Neale-Wade, and his legacy remains a central part of the school's identity and the charity's origins.

The association of formers students of March Grammar School, March High School, Hereward School and Neale-Wade.

Centenary of the Association 2019

In 2019 the Neale-Wade Association held its 100th reunion and to celebrate this remarkable milestone an historic cricket match took place between a team from March and Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) at March Town Cricket Club on Friday 28th June 2019.

In its centenary year in 2019 the Association commissioned three plaques dedicated to former pupils and teachers of March Grammar School and Neale-Wade Academy who lost their lives in WWI and subsequent conflicts. The plaques hang in St George’s Chapel in Ypres, St Wendreda’s Church in March and the Hewitt Hall at the Neale-Wade Academy.

About The Neale-Wade Association

The formation of the Neale-Wade Association can be traced back to 1919 when a group of March Grammar School Old Boys organised a cricket match against the school and masters in order to raise funds to purchase a memorial in memory of their school chums who died in the first world war.
Alongside the WWI plaque is a further plaque dedicated to those who lost their lives in the WWII and one honouring Corporal Lee Scott, an ex-Neale-Wade pupil and a member of the 2nd Royal Tank Regiment, who was killed in Afghanistan 10 years ago this year on 10 July 2009.
Each year for over 100 years former pupils and their descendants held re-union dinners.
The ‘Mercian’ magazine was produced from 1918 until the end of the school in 1969 and for much of that time it was published termly but from World War II it was a twice yearly production and finally an annual one. From its inception the ‘Mercian’ was both a school and an Old Boys magazine and for most of the inter- war years the Old Boys’ section was as extensive as the school’s’. It was clearly in the early 1920s that the Old Boys Association became a force to be reckoned with and it is especially interesting to read of the annual dinner held at the ‘Griffin’ and the numerous eulogies to former schooldays which the occasions produced. The guest speakers included Vice-Chancellors of Cambridge University, Chief Education Officers, M.P.s and among individuals, Lord Burghley the Olympic Sprinter, and Lord Burnham who had devised the famous teacher’s pay scales in the early 1920s.
Today, that plaque for which the funds were raised hangs in the Hewitt Hall at the Neale-Wade Academy and it displays the names of 46 former pupils and staff who died during the Great War.