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Help Us Build a World with More Dance!

The Place exists to develop, nurture and celebrate dance ideas and experiences for all, and we strive to create extraordinary experiences with and for you. We believe in a world where everyone has access to dance, and now more than ever we need your help to ensure we can continue to provide world-leading dance experiences and education, no matter who you are.

Your donation matters. It enables us to protect and enhance the future of contemporary dance in the UK and beyond, it enables us to empower artists to take creative risks and realise their vision; and it enables us to foster creative education for all.

Join the movement to help The Place build a world with more dance. Thank you.

Supporting The Place

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Future Cargo by Requardt & Rosenberg Credit: Camilla Greenwell 2022

By donating to the Pioneering Fund, you are supporting everything that we do at The Place, allowing us to champion the diversity and pioneering spirit of our community of independent artists, students, children and young people to create the most exciting new work.

Supporting Artists

The Open Studio Fund exists to enable The Place to invest in artistic risk taking. Gifts support our Producing and Touring activity and have been instrumental in the creation of many of our most groundbreaking and exciting work created over the last years, including Requardt & Rosenberg’s Future Cargo, Sivan Rubinstein’s Dance No. 2°, Jamaal Burkmar’s DONUTS, Joseph Toonga’s Born to Protest and SAYs the album.

SAY the album Credit: Daniel Phung 2022

Supporting Students

The Peggy Hawkins Fund was created by Anthony Van Laast CBE and Pernille Charrington, in memory of Peggy Hawkins, whose life was dedicated to teaching dance and choreography. Peggy was Anthony’s mother, and Pernille’s devoted friend and colleague. Founded in 2011 as the Peggy Hawkins Scholarship, it has since grown into the Peggy Hawkins Fund, a holistic student wellbeing fund which now supports the extensive student wellbeing programme at London Contemporary Dance School, including financial hardship support, physical support, mental health support and learning support.

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LCDS Students Credit: James Keats 2023
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LCDS Students Credit: Camilla Greenwell 2021

The Students' Fund distributes grants to students studying at London Contemporary Dance School who are in need of additional financial support. These awards make a real difference to those who might otherwise not have the resources necessary to either take up a place or complete their training.

Support Young People

It's made a big difference to our lives... she's a very happy, focused child and it's down to this funding

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The Iris Tomlinson Fund provides children and young people access to small bursaries to helping with the cost of our fantastic programme of Children and Youth classes. These activities include our Saturday class programme, youth companies and additional workshops and holiday projects.

The Fund is dedicated to Iris Tomlinson who dedicated her life's work to shaping our young dancer’s programme over the last three decades. Iris left The Place in autumn 2011.

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The Centre for Advanced Training (CAT) is part of a national network which identifies and assists young people with great potential to access world-class specialist dance training, regardless of their personal circumstances. We are renewing our commitment to placing young people at the heart of what we do and CAT plays a central part in this endeavour. Your generosity and support allows this to happen.

Donating to the Centre for Advanced Training Fund, you are helping us continue to inspire and empower young people from diverse backgrounds to take risks and achieve their full potential through world class dance experiences.