[2] Dankworth also travelled across the globe, adjudicating, lecturing and teacher training for the Service Children's Education Authority.
[4] In the late 1960s, she moved to the Milton Keynes area and educated at Bletchley Park's Teacher Training College.
Several of the former campers such as the record producer Guy Chambers, Christian Garrick, Tim Firth, the Sting guitarist Dominic Miller and Radiohead lead singer Thom Yorke all went on to attain successful careers in the music industry.
[2][6] Margaret Gallagher for Milton Keynes Fawcett said of Dankworth: "She was an enthusiast, an enabler, and a doer - someone who didn't just have ideas, but made them happen.
The National Youth Music Camps are her enduring achievement, and a superb reflection of the innovative spirit that has made Milton Keynes what it is.