60 fully funded places are available at this time. This is a pilot programme, and we're tracking its success to potentially expand in future.
Funded healthcare and wellbeing support for dance professionals
APPLY NOW: 60 Free Places for Dance Healthcare Support
If you're a dancer experiencing injury, struggling with managing your time for wellbeing, living with anxiety, or feeling burnt out, you're not alone. In fact, you’re part of a majority. Around 80% of dance professionals face injury every year, half report moderate to severe symptoms of depression and anxiety, and with financial concerns and irregular income further impacting these issues, nearly four in five have seriously considered leaving the sector.
We're here to help you break the cycle.
Dance Professionals Fund, One Dance UK, and the National Institute of Dance Medicine and Science have come together with a simple mission: to put your wellbeing first. That’s why for the first time ever we're offering 60 dance professionals completely free health and wellbeing support. At the end of 2024, we launched the first ever offer of Wellbeing Packages for the dance ecology at affordable rates (£25 per year). However, we know that dance professionals may still struggle to access the healthcare support that they need in the current financially pressured climate.
Successful applicants will receive free One Dance UK membership plus your choice of two essential services: a dedicated 24/7 wellbeing service, giving you access to a GP, prescriptions, counselling and financial and legal advice to support you, or specialist dancer screening to gain valuable insights to help you improve training and performance, understand your strengths and areas for development, prevent injuries, and support your overall well-being.
Your health matters. Your career matters. And we're here to help you look after both.
Applicants can choose from one of two fully funded support packages, plus a free One Dance UK membership (worth £35):
Find out more about One Dance UK membership, here
Option 1: Dance-Specific Screening (worth £76-£276)
A physical assessment and functional movement evaluation with a dance medicine expert. Through a personalised consultation, you'll:
- Gain valuable insights to improve your training and performance
- Understand your strengths and areas for development
- Learn personalised injury prevention strategies
- Get training advice tailored to your needs
- Prevent injuries before they become long-term problems
Screening Centres are located in London and Wolverhampton. You will have to make sure you are able to travel to the locations provided to access this service.
Option 2: Wellbeing Package (worth £25)
24/7/365 global access to:
- Private GP consultations and prescriptions
- Telephone counselling
- Legal advice
- Enhanced debt and welfare management support
- Crisis intervention
- and more!
All confidential and available whenever you need it - no waiting lists, no shifting schedules around, no need to worry.
FAQs
No problem. Both membership and the services offered are designed to be accessible, welcoming and of course - useful! We'll send succesfull applicants all the information they need to engage at their best
This pilot allows you to choose one package alongside your One Dance UK membership. You are able to purchase additional packages and services through your membership should you chose to do so
No, the pilot covers the cost of membership and the services however any additional costs that may arise (such as prescription costs, or travel to screening) are not covered at this time.
You must live and work in the UK to be eligible for this pilot, though the wellbeing service is available to access outside of the UK should you need to use it on tour, holiday or for other reasons
Your information is handled confidentially by One Dance UK, NIDMS and Dance Professionals Fund in line with data protection regulations. We may use anonymised data to demonstrate the impact of this programme. You can see more in our Privacy Policy and the T&Cs here.
These services have been carefully developed to complement the existing support for dance professionals offered by the partners. This includes:
- Grants for living costs, crisis, retirement, professional development and medical costs, offered through Dance Professionals Fund
- Free dance specific counselling and physiotherapy support for UK dance professionals through the British Association of Performing Arts Medicine (BAPAM) and Dance Professionals Fund
- Dance Injury Clinics on the NHS in London, Birmingham and Bath offered through NIDMS
All applications will be assessed for eligibility, and we aim to reach a broad and diverse range of dance professionals and will take positive action to support under-represented groups where possible. From this point on, we will randomise applicants to ensure fairness.