PROJECT
Dance United Yorkshire - Keighley Project
PURPOSE
To help disengaged or socially-excluded teenagers get their lives back on track
FUNDING
Around £25,000 for a five-week programme, mainly funded by the Arts Council and Bradford's Families First scheme
BACKGROUND
Dance United Yorkshire started running dance programmes for disengaged teenagers across West Yorkshire in 2011 including in Keighley. The project evolved from a similar dance scheme called The Academy, which worked with young offenders in Bradford and achieved excellent results.
ACTION
Most referrals to the Keighley scheme come from the Three Valleys Behaviour and Attendance Collaborative, a consortium of schools tackling pupil disengagement.
The group provides a list of 13- to 16-year-olds not engaging with school and the co-ordinator visits them and their families to explain the main programme.
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