Flamingo Chicks CIC provides an inclusive community giving children with disabilities and illnesses such as cancer the opportunity to enjoy ballet alongside their friends.
We have all kinds of children in our classes including those undergoing treatment for cancer, children who are visually impaired, those with autism, cerebral palsy, Downs Syndrome or other needs. We actively celebrate what our children CAN do.
2000 children come through our classes each year!
We deliver classes in three ways:
SCHOOL SETTINGS
We have regular weekly classes delivered at schools across Bristol, Bradford, Leeds, York, Cardiff and London.
Inclusive Dance for all workshops and it’s amazing Dance Squad who perform regularly at events across the whole country. The aim is to show that dance is accessible for all.
Achieve More Scotland is a registered SCIO based in Glasgow that delivers programmes of diversionary activity to young people from areas of high social deprivation. Diversionary activities take the form of sports, physical activity, group-work, volunteering, employability and personal development sessions. We improve young people’s physical and mental health and well-being, confidence and self-esteem, aspirations, personal responsibility and life chances by engaging them in weekly, structured, positive activities that work across communities and are delivered by role models.
We offer Football, Dance, Cricket and Gymnastics during the evenings. We also run a sports programme in multiple schools delivering PE, community building and team activities. During the holiday time we offer Holiday Camps that cover all those sports mentioned previously as well as a Breakfast Club and Lunch Club. Participants must be 5 to 18 years old.
All activities are free of charge and everyone is welcome.
Arts projects in hospitals across the South West region, working with children with cancer & leukemia, their siblings & families, as well as developing work with children with other life threatening illnesses too. The residential weekends bring young people into fantastical worlds where anything is possible. Encouraging young people to collaborate to use their energy & imagination to help solve mysterious scenarios using a whole host of arts techniques ranging from drama & dance to printing making & pottery.
Everybody Dance, with support from Brent Sports Service, has started a wheelchair dance sport club in Brent. Learn Ballroom and Latin Dance steps for wheelchair users and friends. The dance can be done with two wheelchair users or a wheelchair user and a standing partner.
Company of dancers with and without disabilities who believe in innovative, and technically dance. Dancers, gallery, details of their repertoire and booking information.
Young people are introduced to technique, the works of various choreographers that Candoco has worked with and have the opportunity to make original dance works with Candoco Artists. Open to new dancers at the start of each term – no previous dance experience is necessary, come along to dance and have lots of fun. Our young dancers have performed as part of Candoco all over the country at youth dance platforms.
Anjali Dance Company runs regular weekly classes for people with learning disabilities, which offer the opportunity to gain dance and performance skills and make new friends. The classes run in Term time only. The classes are taught by professional dance teachers and each class has a teaching assistant from Anjali’s Education Team of workshop leaders with learning disabilities.