d 28 September 2021

It is with great sadness that we report the death of  Pascal Theatre Company’s former Financial Director Kate Barazetti. Kate served the company for many years, using her phenomenal skill with numbers to help an enterprise she supported – something she also did for City Limits magazine, the Africa Centre, International PEN, Space Studios and many others.

More than simply an accountant, she was a great humanitarian whose gift for friendship and hospitality spanned generational and social divides. She was fearless, forthright and funny, always finding ways to play the system and fight for the rights of those excluded or badly served by it. 

Having left school at 16, Kate learnt book-keeping at an early age. She finally completed her education by doing a degree and master’s in gender studies at London’s Birkbeck University in her fifties. She went on to set up the feminist news website Aviva from her front room. She later found her métier as a teacher, first teaching English to newly arrived refugees and then working on access to social science courses. She continued teaching – and working as an accountant – well into her seventies.

She is survived by two children, four grandchildren, her brother Nick, sister Annie, countless friends, former colleagues and grateful students. See more at: https://www.theguardian.com/education/2021/nov/01/kate-barazetti-obituary

Kate Barazetti, 8 September 1942-20 September 2021

By Alix Lee