We are excited to announce that Synergy Dance, are the winner of the National Sport and Recreation Alliance Diversity and Inclusion Award. Thank you so much to Active IQ & Sport and Recreation Alliance and our incredible team of talent and supporters.
Synergy Dance’s main aim throughout lockdown was to get previously inactive people active and improve their physical and mental health. Through fun dance, fitness and yoga activities that could be accessed anywhere and at any time.
With your support and the support of our partners, we managed to achieve just that and have touched, the lives of people around the world.
We won the National Sport and Recreation Alliance Diversity and Inclusion Award because we managed to stay inclusive. And helped stop isolation throughout lockdown by offering accessible workouts for those with special educational needs, disabilities and visual impairments.
This award wouldn’t have been achieved, without the support of our loyal customers. So from the bottom of all of our hearts, thank you.
About Sport and Recreation Alliance:
SRA bring together the sport and recreation sector and support our members to tackle the challenges and take advantage of opportunities. We are the voice of the sector with the Government, policymakers and the media. Our main aim is to help get the nation active at the grassroots by providing advice, support and guidance.
Our strategy comes at a critical juncture for both society and our sector. The COVID-19 pandemic has simultaneously reinforced the importance of sport, recreation and physical activity to the lives of individuals and communities but also highlighted how easy it can be taken away. Now, more than ever, we must work creatively and collaboratively to make the case for sport and recreation.
Synergy Dance® & Synergy Dance® Outreach’s founder Rachael Hurton speaks to RNIB about all of our exciting Online and Live VI Dance and Yoga classes. You can read more here
Alternatively you can listen to the podcast below, but please do head on over to RNIB and give them a listen, they are doing some great things – www.rnibconnectradio.org.uk
‘Synergy Dance Outreach is providing free, online, sessions for a variety of dance, fitness and meditation activities.
They are free, suitable for all ages and abilities,, and fully accessible for blind and partially sighted people.
RNIB Connect Radio’s Allan Russell spoke to Rachael Hurton, from Synergy Dance Outreach. To learn more about the free activities and why it’s so important to look after our minds, as well as our bodies.’
If you’d like to find out more about charity, our goals and what we hope to achieve you can do so by going here.
About RNIB:
RNIB Connect Radio is a radio station serving the UK. And is funded primarily by the Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) and also by other local councils.
We are Europe’s first radio station for blind and partially sighted listeners. We broadcast 24 hours a day, 7 days a week online. On 101 FM in the Glasgow area, and on Freeview channel 730.
Our mission is to broadcast news, information and advice to blind and partially sighted people. All of our presenters are visually impaired.
Although the station’s main studios are based in Scotland, the station is for everyone in the UK and beyond. With many listeners in the USA and Canada. Other studios are in Cardiff and London and more locations across the UK are planned for the very near future.
UK’s first fully inclusive online fitness classes available free
Thanks to funding from Sport England and the National Lottery a UK charity is the first to offer fully inclusive online fitness classes for children, the elderly, people with learning difficulties and physical disabilities, as well as the visually impaired and blind.
In total, Synergy Dance Outreach offers 174 online classes which are available on demand via an easily accessible online platform. They are tailored to suit each type of group. The platform includes courses for children, teens, adults and the elderly.
The dance and yoga programmes are free for all ages including seated Para Stars Dance™ and ParaStars Yoga®, bespoke classes Synergy Audio Yoga™ and Synergy Audio Dance™ for the visually impaired and additional programmes for autism, cerebral palsy, and those with learning difficulties.
Founder of Guildford-based Synergy Dance Outreach, Rachael Hurton, said:
“I set up Synergy to make a difference, having discovered a gap in the market for inclusive, fun dance activities which appealed to all. I had nowhere to send my little boy who wanted to learn breakdance or my little girl, who dreaded the pressure of ballet and tap and wanted to try new dance styles in a more relaxed setting.
“Inclusivity is vital to us. At Synergy no one is left behind. We aim to ensure that neither finance, fitness, ability, disability nor family circumstance are barriers to participation. We set up Synergy Dance® Outreach, the charity arm of Synergy, to meet local need and create positive change, removing barriers to enable people experiencing disadvantage or marginalisation to improve physical and mental health and wellbeing through accessible, inclusive and fun dance, fitness, yoga, singing and related activities. Our beneficiaries include people with special educational needs, those who are visually impaired, the elderly and other disadvantaged people, children and young people.
“We were determined lockdown would not stop us making a difference. Synergy pivoted fast to serve all our children, communities and service users. Just four days into lockdown in March, we launched our first online platform of courses for dance, yoga and meditation with courses for children, teens, adults and the elderly. Thanks to funding from Children in Need we have been able to expand our online platforms for children and young people, creating an opportunity to reach a far wider audience. We now have global interest and people can access our classes anywhere in the world. Now so many more people can join in the fun and improve their physical and mental health through exercise.”
For media enquiries contact Roz Hughes on 07967 800395 or email roz@rozhughes.com
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Synergy Dance®
Synergy Dance® provide innovative dance and yoga activities in schools and leisure centres, serving both mainstream and the special needs and disability community. At Synergy, no one is left behind.
Everyone Active partners with Synergy Dance to offer all-inclusive online platform supporting people with disabilities and special needs
As part of their growth in digital services, Everyone Active has partnered with Synergy Dance. To offer people of all ages and abilities exclusive access to a specialised online platform.
The Synergy Dance service is aiming to keep the nation active through inclusive and fun activities. All of which have been developed to support individuals including people with physical and mental disabilities. The classes are suited to all abilities with activities ranging from seated yoga to audio recordings for the visually impaired and blind.
The service will be available for free to all Everyone Active members and new joiners.
The partnership will see Everyone Active further expand their digital fitness offering which currently hosts a range of over 2,500 workouts and access to four leading fitness apps. The leisure operator’s on-demand service gives people an at-home solution to staying active. It has also helped tackle the nation’s rising levels of inactivity during lockdown periods.
Research from Activity Alliance’s Annual Survey revealed the additional constraints disabled people have faced during the pandemic. The figures showed that over 44% of disabled individuals felt they haven’t had the opportunity to be active. In comparison this figure was nearly half as prevalent in non-disabled people at 29%.
To access the free classes, customers will need to register at Synergy Dance and use the code “Everyone Active” after their name. For more information on the partnership and how to sign up, visit: https://www.everyoneactive.com/promotion/synergy/
Everyone Active’s Group Development Director Ben Beevers, said:
“Over the past 11 months we’ve adapted our business to ensure we can fully support our customers and offer them the best online fitness services. Our latest partnership with Synergy Dance will ensure we can offer an extended range of inclusive activities to people of all abilities.
“Inclusivity remains at the core of the Everyone Active values and we’re delighted to support the brilliant work that the Synergy team are doing to offer a vast range of specialised activities. We look forward to offering this service to our members and seeing what is to come next from this exciting partnership.”
“At Synergy we were determined lockdown would not stop us making a difference. We are proud to support inclusive activities for all children, teens, adults and the elderly. Like Everyone Active, we encourage everyone we come into contact with to participate in at least 30 minutes of moderate physical activity, at this time, via online training, up to five times per week.
Our Synergy courses are for all including Special Needs classes for Autism & Cerebral Palsy, audios for the Visually Impaired and Blind, seated classes for the Disability Community, those with Long Term Health Conditions and the elderly – offering much diversity and choice. Thanks to Everyone Active, so many more people can join in the fun and improve their physical and mental health through our online exercise programmes which can take place anywhere and at any time.”
Synergy Dance® Outreach provides innovative dance and yoga activities in schools and leisure centres, serving both mainstream and the special needs and disability community. Inclusivity is vital to us. At Synergy, no one is left behind and we are delighted to partner with Everyone Active to enable their members to experience inclusive online workouts for all.
At Synergy we were determined lockdown would not stop us making a difference. We are proud to support inclusive activities for all children, teens, adults and the elderly. Like Everyone Active, we encourage everyone we come into contact with to participate in at least 30 minutes of moderate physical activity, at this time, via online training, up to five times per week.
Our Synergy courses are for all including Special Needs classes for Autism & Cerebral Palsy, audios for the Visually Impaired and Blind, seated classes for the Disability Community, those with Long Term Health Conditions and the elderly – offering much diversity and choice. Thanks to Everyone Active, so many more people can join in the fun and improve their physical and mental health through our online exercise programmes which can take place anywhere and at any time.
As a result of the generous funding, we received from the Postcode Community Trust (see more here – http://synergydanceoutreach.co.uk/2021/01/15/postcode-community-trust-funding/) and the popularity of January’s, FREE Live Dance Parties, we have scheduled more that will take place every Wednesday at 6 pm throughout February!
So, let’s use our superhero powers to share and celebrate Kindness & Happiness as we dance to an upbeat playlist to leave you all feeling happy, loved and awesome.
Jessie’s class is always super creative with a huge emphasis on having fun!
So share with your friends and get ready for 45 minutes of fun-filled dance!
This Zoom session is a seated dance routine aimed at children with disabilities, SEN or long term health conditions, but, anyone can join in, log on and take part!
If you haven’t had the chance to try any of our classes yet, please use the course links to go to the classes and get yourself enrolled.
To help you make your decision, and, hopefully, encourage you to sign up and join the Synergy family, here is an audio testimonial from one of our current users.
Synergy Dance® Outreach is extremely honoured, and excited to announce that we have received a grant from The Postcode Community Trust which is supported by players of The Postcode Lottery.
The Postcode Trust funding will be used to engage with & support many more people with SEND, and with those with long term health conditions.
Specialist SEND trained dance teachers will record fun 12 week Creative Dance programmes available for download on the Teachable Platform so participants can download videos & repeat as often as they wish, alone or with family members, friends, or carers.
It will also fund ParaStars DanceParty Live, a brand new and innovative weekly online dance event for 26 weeks to get inactive people active and responding to themes and requests from participants via our monitored ParaStars Dance Facebook Group.
We know from our partnership work with British Blind Sport what a buzz is created around the live events enabling participants to connect and feel a valued part of their community.
To join in our Live Dance Parties head to our Facebook Page, where we will share weekly event updates.
Synergy Dance® Outreach (SDO) has been supported by EMD UK to develop and launch a national all-inclusive online platform offering free, easily accessible dance and yoga programmes for all ages. The project, designed to minimise the impact of COVID-19 on activity levels of people from under-represented groups, was made possible by receiving funding of £17,000 from Sport England’s Tackling Inequalities Fund. This amount was allocated from the £20m which had been assigned to the Tackling Inequalities Fund by the National Lottery.
Founder of SDO, Rachael Hurton, is rightly proud of what they achieved in recording 174 online classes and keeping within budget. She has written a guest blog for us to explain the vision behind it all and how they are transforming lives –
Synergy Dance® provide innovative dance and yoga activities in schools and leisure centres, serving both mainstream and the special needs and disability community. At Synergy, no one is left behind.
Synergy Dance® Outreach – the charity arm of Synergy – was set up to meet local need and create positive change, removing barriers to enable people experiencing disadvantage or marginalisation to improve physical and mental health and wellbeing through accessible, inclusive and fun dance, fitness, yoga, singing and related activities. Our beneficiaries include older people, adults, those with special educational needs and other disadvantaged people, children and young people. Inclusivity is vital to us and we aim to ensure that neither finance, fitness, ability, disability nor family circumstance are barriers to participation.
When COVID-19 forced a national lockdown, here at Synergy, we carried on and did not stop in an effort to continue to reach our service users who needed our activities even more. Funds were down, but that didn’t stop us, and we also wanted to keep our loyal team of talent in work and they all rose to the challenge of online delivery.
As weeks became months, and COVID-19 remained a high risk, I wanted to provide an all-inclusive online platform to host a diverse programme of online dance and yoga classes. I wanted it to be something completely new to minimise the impact of coronavirus on the activity levels of people from under-represented groups, ensuring that the participation gaps did not widen during this period. I was keen to address inequalities in health and fitness uptake.
The lessons are new, fun, and tailored to each type of group. The platform includes courses for children, teens, adults and the elderly – who may choose from a wide range of activities and courses to keep fit, social and active for five main categories:
Special needs including autism and cerebral palsy
Visually impaired and blind
The disability community
Long term health conditions
The elderly
Our dance and yoga programmes are free for all ages via an easily accessible online platform. There is a variety of classes to choose from, including our bespoke brands seated Para Stars Dance™ and ParaStars Yoga®, and we innovated a new style of delivery with Synergy Audio Yoga™ and Synergy Audio Dance™. We had already built a platform for mainstream activities, funded by Synergy mainstream, which reached global audiences during the first lockdown.
You can view a taster of our platform and vision, incorporating our #TogetherWeCan campaign, here: https://youtu.be/p9sX5iid5NI
With the rise of our audio content, a partnership with British Blind Sport soon followed, and Synergy now provide regular audio and live content for this wonderful charity and many others, who work so hard to provide a varied programme of activities for their members.
Why do we need home-based exercise?
Our home-based on-demand exercise is especially suitable for those with disabilities, special needs, long term health conditions or for health referrals, as transport, lack of mobility and low incomes can be a real barrier to taking part.
It’s widely accepted that obesity and inactivity are on the rise. In 2017, 30% of children aged 2 to 15 were overweight or obese and 65% of adults. Many children and adults are not getting their one hour of activity a day. On the mental health side, there are increasing numbers of children and young people with emotional and behavioural disorders – in 2017, one in eight children had at least one mental health disorder, hospitals seeing an increase in self-harm, depression and other mental health admissions and CAHMS referrals. Physical health is intrinsically linked to mental well-being.
What the stats say
Not everyone is suited to team or competitive sports. Disabled people are twice as likely to be inactive as non-disabled people with 53% saying this is due to “no activities suitable for me” and 46% saying “fear of not being welcome or no suitable environment”.
For people with disabilities, according to the charity Scope, of the 14.1 million disabled people in the UK, 8% are children, 19% are working age adults, and 45% are of pension age. Put simply, nearly 1 in 5 has some form of disability.
For Visually Impaired people, RNIB 2020 sight loss data shows there are currently 2,140,000 people in the UK with sight loss (1,820,000 England), comprising
283,000 with severe sight loss (blindness) (242,000 in England)
477,000 with partial sight (406,000 in England)
1,380,000 with mild sight loss (1,170,000 in England).
Reports suggest that loneliness and mental health issues are on the rise, which is no surprise given the necessary COVID-19 restrictions which have been enforced in the last year. Synergy wanted to encourage suitable fitness opportunities for the aging population as we felt the participation gaps were likely to widen during this period – with care home and residential Outreach activities on pause.
Most of us can just go out to exercise – walking, running, cycling etc – to keep fit at the moment – but those who are chair bound or who lack mobility, are far more restricted at this time and many have to stay shielding at home.
Research also shows the inactivity problem is worse among people with low socioeconomic status and this results in health inequalities which cost the public purse. The aim of our platform was to provide easy to access activities, with many free courses to encourage sustainable health behaviour changes – all made possible with the funding from Sport England/National lottery and partnership with EMD UK.
What does the future hold?
Our platform was designed to use technology that will enable easy onboarding of members to train and work their way through our carefully designed programmes which were created in consultation with service users to meet the widest possible spectrum of needs.
We know already from feedback and our market research that there is a growing need for the inclusive services we deliver, and research shows this to commonly be the case nationally. Our new platform enables us to support a more diverse range of needs from long term health conditions to different age groups of wheelchair users, which will make a significant difference and resilience to fear, anxiety and isolation, which is likely to be at an all-time low. Diversity of delivery has always been my vision – hence the name – Synergy.
Both our online and face to face programmes can help reduce inactivity and the consequent cost to health and social care in the UK by providing fun, online activities to do at home or in communal, face to face settings. This will help reduce the financial burden on health and social care and provide great value for money.
Our platform of classes will continue to evolve and innovate on a monthly basis – to continue to provide the upbeat and inclusive classes to motivate our members to keep fit and keep going – in what has been an exceptional year for us all.
To find out more, become a Synergy teacher, join our training programme or to book a class visit our websites:
The long-term benefits of Synergy online dance, yoga and audios
By Rachael Hurton, founder
We all know that doing physical activity is proven to relieve stress, improve mental health and boost the immune system. Synergy Dance provide innovative dance and yoga activities in schools and leisure centres, serving both mainstream and the Special Needs and Disability community. At Synergy, no one is left behind.
Maintaining regular routines is very important – and during the Covid outbreak, Synergy took their activities online for a fully inclusive platform, so that their dance and yoga can be practiced outdoors/indoors, early morning, lunchtime or at the end of the day, on demand, at home or in a shared setting. It is a very flexible programme. This new platform delivery has been made possible with special thanks to EMD UK and Sport England/Lottery funding, to tackle inequalities in activity rates in the UK.
Synergy’s National platform of inclusive online classes reaches out to a diverse range of groups who are keen to keep fit but may not always have access to fit for purpose activities:
The Synergy lessons are innovative and fun and tailored to each type of group. The platform includes courses for: children, teens, adults and the elderly – who may choose from a wide range of activities and courses to keep fit, social and active including: Special Needs including Autism & Cerebral Palsy; Visually Impaired and Blind; The Disability Community; Long Term Health Conditions; The elderly and Adults with a learning disability.
The dance and yoga programmes are FREE for all ages including seated Para Stars Dance™ and ParaStars Yoga®, our bespoke brands, Synergy Audio Yoga™ & Synergy Audio Dance™, a new style of delivery, with additional programmes for autism, cerebral palsy and those with learning difficulties – all via an easily accessible online platform. (Synergy also built a pilot platform for mainstream activities which reached global audiences during lockdown 1, funded by Synergy mainstream).
There is a lot of content for children – and the platform is also supporting teens, adults and the elderly. You can view a taster of the platform and vision below, incorporating our #Together We Can campaign:
The platform is easy to access with many free courses to encourage sustainable health and activity behaviour changes.
Benefitsand how the online resources will transform lives:
We set up our platform to support improved mental health and wellbeing to under-represented groups. The main goals were to improve confidence and self-esteem and to improve fitness – with regular, fun activities to enjoy and look forward to.
Our yoga and dance audios, Special Needs lessons and ParaStars® Yoga and Dance seated classes are designed to:
Improve spatial awareness, balance and co-ordination and to improve posture– which is a major issue for both Visually impaired adults and children and the disability community.
Improve physical and motor skills
Improve ability in the disability community to act freely within their environment
Improve confidence and self-esteem, increasing independence and quality of life
Allow for decreased social isolation through participation, fun and building of skills
Synergy’s fully inclusive and innovative provision of dance and yoga improve both physical and mental well-being. Disabilities often affect whole families, not just the person affected and when a participant experiences improved quality of life via our program – this in turn has a positive impact on close family members, friends and carers who are always delighted to witness anticipated improvements such as confidence, better posture and new agility and skills.
The programmes have been designed in consultation with our participants to meet their specific needs, facilitating desired accessible service provision, co-designed by the participants themselves and helping to redress local health inequalities.
Participating in our seated activities will enable people of all ages and abilities to maintain fitness, flexibility, motor skills, core strength and improve posture which is very important to those who are restricted to seated activities or how lack mobility due to a long term health condition. They will also help to improve mental health and well-being and aid better sleep. The online lessons enable fun activities and using the imagination whilst being home bound, as we introduce props to our routines and enriching music. The online courses also improve general well-being and reduce feelings of stress and frustration at being confined to home – participants can do classes daily if they wish or several times a day and we encourage participants to build up regular patterns of exercise on a weekly basis which can become a natural part of their fitness routine. Sport England/Lottery funding enabled Synergy to offer these services quickly and efficiently online to those groups who were in danger of being left out of accessible exercise programmes. Our online pilot had already established a growing need for on demand activities at home.
The larger scope is that we will continue to develop our online programmes beyond Covid 19 and National lockdowns. Anticipated impacts on society and the economy are that more people from disadvantaged or inactive groups will take part in exercise because it is easy to access, without finance or travel as a barrier to taking part. This in turn will improve health and activity rates.
Inactivity causes a number of health-related illnesses
In 2006/2007, the estimated cost of physical inactivity to the NHS was:
£117 million for stroke, £542 million for heart disease, £65 million for colorectal cancers, £54 million for breast cancer and £158 million for type 2 diabetes. Academic research shows that the rising global burden of NCDs such as diabetes, cancer, cardiovascular and chronic respiratory diseases, constitute a major and increasing public health challenge costing around $50 billion worldwide (Lancet. 2016;388:1311–24). There has been a great deal of academic research already which reveals that physical inactivity is the 4th leading cause of global mortality.
I believe Synergy can help to solve the societal challenges outlined above through our Synergy online courses, as we go beyond what we have successfully delivered to scale and have longevity, reach and benefit many more people, improving inclusivity, health and wellbeing for all across the UK.
Feedback so far…
Feedback so far shows that Synergy participants look forward to our activities as part of their weekly routine. The benefits of being able to continue the service online are:
1) Enabling the disability community to have more of the same choices and opportunities to participate in yoga and fitness activities as their non-disabled peers.
2) Our participants have built new friendships in face to face classes, so feel less isolated and have built resilience to social situations via the regular and repeated nature of the classes. Via both online dance and yoga, we have provided continuation online – the activities will break up their day and can be repeated and practiced as often as they need.
3) The participants have built confidence and self-esteem and had the opportunity to be creative and are encouraged to express themselves with freestyle sections in many workouts.
4) By having an active role in what they are doing participants feel positively empowered. The children we teach are also given challenges and goals, and so they learn the value of effort and hard work giving a sense of achievement on a weekly basis.
5) The participants have also become more active and physically fitter across the year, since we started our online platforms: what may have proved a challenge at first, became easier over time. They have enjoyed trying new fun activities, especially the audio yoga, which they had never experienced before. Some participants even asked us to “make it harder” as they travelled over the threshold from complete beginner to improver.
With Covid 19, we expect anxiety levels to be up – especially if tensions are picked up at home. Parents are now trying to juggle working from home and potentially supervising children, with disabilities. Our classes bring structure to the day and enable participants to improve their flexibility, motor skills, core strength and posture by repeating yoga postures.
The overall goal is improved physical and mental health and wellbeing (providing additional value by also improving feelings of confidence and wellbeing for disability families and carers) and helping to reduce the burden on health and social care services in regions throughout the UK. To find out more, become a Synergy teacher or to join a class visit our websites:
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Bookings for the Holiday Activate programme can be made in person at Customer Services, Monday – Friday from 9am – 5.00pm and Saturday 9am to 1pm or by telephoning 01483 443322, option 4 from Monday 15th January 2018.
Course bookings will only be accepted with payment. All major and debit cards are accepted (not American Express). All course places are sold on a first come, first served basis. We regret we cannot guarantee a place on the course. Waiting lists will be opened once a course becomes full.
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Guildford Spectrum accepts a variety of different childcare vouchers for Xtreme Activate and Specky’s Creche. Please call Customer Services on 01483 443322 for more information.
I also think we need a clause like this for Synergy bookings on the customer booking form until we have an online booking system for schools set up- we have children turning up for classes when parents have not paid and it is winding us up!
Booking Arrangements for Synergy Dance
Course bookings will only be accepted with payment for schools and leisure centres. All course places are sold on a first come, first served basis. We regret we cannot guarantee a place on the course. Waiting lists will be opened once a course becomes full. To book a place please contact admin@synergydance.co.uk
All courses include admission for the course member. In the event of Synergy Dance being forced to cancel courses, customers shall be entitled to a full refund of fees. In the event of any accident which requires immediate hospital attention, Synergy reserves the right to adopt appropriate emergency action. Instructors should be notified in advance of any children with medical problems via our compulsory registration forms.
No refunds will be given for courses cancelled by the customer 7 days prior to, or any time after the start of the course. Request for refunds must be given in writing.
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By Rachael Hurton, founder 