Updates at North East Dance

Our staff have been very busy these past few months gaining new skills and finishing various trainings and courses. We always strive to improve our services and deliver more individual oriented services. Our achievements: Dolly has successfully finished a mental counselling course. Now as a mental health counsellor she can assess and support mental and emotional health of our community members. She can also offer coping strategies for navigating life's struggles. Emily and Penny have completed youth worker course which will give them a stepping stone into youth work, strengthening the timetable at our brand new youth and community hub. Girls learned new ways to approach young people and have a better understanding about their needs in the community. They gained additional skills and confidence to run youth sessions for ages 13-19. Jade has achieved a level 2 certificate in understanding autism which equips her to deliver more of our SEND sessions and accommodating for the needs of our learners.

As we’re nearing to Easter holidays, we’re planning another round of our Street Games funded Newcastle’s Best Spring Ever sessions at Fawdon CC. As always we’re looking to support children on school meals throughout the holiday providing fun and diverse activities and FREE healthy lunches. Get in touch with clare@northeastdance.com to book your child’s space.

We are starting 2024 as we mean to go on, very busy! The renovation works at our Sunderland based studio are nearing completion and we are very excited to share with you the new youth hub and community space. Our instructors are very busy delivering dance and fitness in schools, leisure centres and community venues across North East and our timetable grows with every day. We are also currently delivering a number of different funded projects thanks to CDCF. Details of all of funded delivery can be found on our social media, give us a follow and see what we are up to!

Alongside our regular contracted work we have been busy delivering and planning projects thanks to funding from County Durham Community Foundation. Our ‘Kids Together’ project funded by Poverty Hurts grant has been a great success and we’re excited to carry this work over into 2024. We are also planning two different project due to start in January 2024, thanks to the Stanley Fund we will be able to continue working with one of our very special groups at Stanley Pathways and with funding from the NHS Waiting Well grant we will continue and expand our delivery at the Hub of Wishes in Newton Aycliffe. As always we’re grateful to continue to uplift and support our community and excited to continue our work towards healthier and happier communities.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from North East Dance CIC! With the New Year approaching we’re taking a moment to acknowledge all of our achievements this year, we’re very proud of our achievements and the impact we’ve made and very excited to see what new challenges 2024 will bring us. Our office is due to close on the 20th of December but our instructors will be still busy in our regular dance and fitness sessions so don’t miss out!

We are making our beautiful studio even better! Unfortunately this means that until January 2024 our offices and dance studio are closed. All our outreach work is running as normal, you can find us in local schools, community venues and leisure centres but wedding tuition courses and studio hire are not available at the moment. We are sorry for any inconvenience this may cause but very excited to share with you our brand new space in January next year! Keep your eyes peeled for the updates and extra information.