Getting Involved

Dancers' Career Development enables dancers to successfully develop their professional careers beyond physical dance. The Company Division is funded through annual contributions from the currently nine companies subscribing to the scheme. The Independent Division however relies heavily on contributions from organisations, foundations, corporations and individuals who provide its sole funding. By contributing to our work, you can make a crucial investment in dancers, the dance industry and society in general.

Individual Legacies & Donations
Individual donations and legacies provide essential long-term financial support for our work. Please consider setting up a legacy or make provisions in your will to leave a lasting contribution to dance. We welcome any anonymous or named contribution you may wish to make.

Dancers’ Bursaries
DCD is most grateful to various Foundations and Individuals who donated funds for valuable named retraining bursaries. Each bursary is a life-changing contribution to a dancers' career and a lasting memorial to the Individuals after whom they are named. All bursaries are advertised annually or bi-annually and will be awarded for outstanding dancer retraining projects, subject to guidelines. Current DCD Bursaries include:

• The Ned Sherrin Bursary
• The Maude Lloyd & Rudolf Nureyev Bursary
• The Wallace Potts Bursary
• The Matthew Winsten Bursary
• The Leslie Edwards Bursary

Dancers’ Scholarships
If you have access to scholarships or training bursaries from training providers we would be delighted to hear from you.

Supporters
The Independent Division could not exist without support from organisations and individuals who believe in our work and contribute generously.

The Trust is grateful to receive vital annual or regular contributions from

• Equity
• Equity Trust Fund
• Mackintosh Foundation
• Rudolf Nureyev Foundation
• Society of London Theatre
• The Combined Theatrical Charities
• and other Individuals, Trusts and Foundations.

This website was funded by a grant from the Regional Arts Lottery Programme

If you wish to learn more or receive an application for funding from DCD, whether for dancers’ grants or project funding, please do contact the DCD or email admin@thedcd.org.uk.

Registered Charity No. 327747

“Thanks to the DCD I have been able to retrain for a career which is as much a passion for me as my dancing career was.”

DCD Fundraising Information
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