What We Do

Youth Dance England is the national organisation that champions and promotes dance for children and young people.  We work to ensure that dance is available to all, both in and out of school settings. Through a shared vision with the National Youth Dance Network and other partners, our aim is to increase access, raise standards and improve progression routes in dance.

We believe that dance changes and enriches young people’s lives. We strive for every child and young person across the country to have the opportunity to take part in a wide range of high quality dance - whether it is for fun, to develop skills and an understanding in dance, keep physically active or train to become a dance professional - YDE exists to make dance more accessible to all.

To realise our aims we have created new partnerships between those providing and supporting dance activities for children and young people through working across the arts, community, education, sport, youth and youth justice sectors.

Click to find out more about YDE's National Brief and the National Network which YDE funds.

 

YDE is funded by Arts Council England, the Department for Education's Music & Dance Scheme and the Department for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport:

 

 

 

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Last updated: 18-05-2010