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Project casebook: Positive Futures dance event, Wacky Forum Spring Prom, Know More, Dorset's Personal and Social Development Course

7 mins read Youth Work
Jo Stephenson reports on a Positive Futures dance performance in London, a prom for disabled young people in Warwickshire; a performance event in Liverpool to raise awareness of drug services;and a personal development course in Dorset.

POSITIVE FUTURES DANCE EVENT

Aim: To give young dancers a showcase and raise awareness of drugs issues

Funding: A share of £13,000 from the Home Office

Dance group Diversity may have scooped the crown in Britain's Got Talent but they're not the only ones who can use dance to inspire others.

Performers from Positive Futures projects in London and the south-east took over Leicester Square Gardens one day last month for a dance event linked to National Tackling Drugs Week.

Children's minister Baroness Morgan was among those watching when dancers and free-runners from Basildon, Sutton, Watford and Westminster performed routines before joining forces for a grande finale.

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