Government Funding for Dance Classes

[DavidY]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7299970.stm

Looks interesting.

If nothing else, there may be some new facilities created which might be available for MJ.

[Lee Bartholomew]

BBC NEWS | UK | Funding for dancing classes

Looks interesting.

If nothing else, there may be some new facilities created which might be available for MJ.

Would be nice but I doubt the MJ world would even get a sniff of it. Will all go in to projects getting kids in to street dancing and stuff I reckon.

[DavidY]

A bit more on this from here:

Tony Hall's review, commissioned by the Schools minister Andrew Adonis and the Skills minister, David Lammy, envisages a dance teacher in every secondary school, an ambition which would begin with a specialist dance co-ordinator being appointed to each of the 450 School Sport Partnerships. Mr Hall also called for all new schools to be equipped with a sprung floor, for every young person to attend at least one dance performance a year, for a programme to encourage diversity in dance, and for a schools dance festival leading up to a performance at the opening of the London 2012 Olympic Games.

[fletch]

I'm getting new members which are also been funded.

[straycat]

A bit more on this from here:

A definite step in the right direction, as far as I'm concerned. But at the risk of sounding like Heather Mills, I can't help thinking that 5.5mil isn't going to go very far on a national scale.

[Lee Bartholomew]

A definite step in the right direction, as far as I'm concerned. But at the risk of sounding like Heather Mills, I can't help thinking that 5.5mil isn't going to go very far on a national scale.

Poss enough to build and run 1 dance hall for a year or two.

[bigdjiver]

A definite step in the right direction, as far as I'm concerned. But at the risk of sounding like Heather Mills, I can't help thinking that 5.5mil isn't going to go very far on a national scale.

Acorns and oaks.

There are a multitude of teachers that would rather teach dance than whatever they are teaching at the moment. The lack of sufficient funding means it has to be done in quantity and on the cheap. MJ which can run classes running into the hundreds is perfectly placed to fit that criteria. This is a perfect springboard for a major promotion of MJ to the teaching profession, and NOW