About the Charity
Synergy Dance Outreach is a charity which provides inclusive dance, fitness, yoga, wellness, singing and enrichment activities for children, teens and adults and seniors of all ages and abilities. We provide both standing and seated programmes, high and low impact.
We operate a wide range of Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND) programs, and our instructors are specially trained to engage with vulnerable groups.
Our instructors are highly qualified and hand-picked for their expertise and ability to inspire and build confidence. We are on a mission to keep everyone active.
Synergy Dance® Outreach works to break down the barriers which prevent children and adults from taking part in an activity.
Our partnerships
– Schools, nurseries and universities
– Children’s homes
– Care homes
– Social prescribing
– Charities, Trusts and Local Councils
– Leisure Chains, Gyms and Health Clubs
– Outreach and youth centres
– Community hubs
As seen on TV
Since our appearance on Strictly Come Dancing in November 2021, our delivery has become National spanning with delivery in Surrey, Sussex, Hampshire, London, Kent, Essex, East and West Midlands. Tess and Claudia came to visit a SEND class for children and Young People, and we were delighted to receive a 10 paddle!
Since its inception in 2016, and following pilots in schools, Synergy Dance® Outreach has been providing new and innovative dance, fitness, singing and yoga programs specifically designed for schools and leisure centres, care homes, outreach centres and holiday schemes, for children and adults.
Multi-Award Winning
Synergy has won 12 National awards:
- 2023 Digital Dance & Fitness Provider of the Year
- 2023 Sports Community Initiative of the Year
- 2023 Dance Studio of the Year
- 2023 SME All-ages Dance Activity Company
- 2023 SME Diversity & Inclusion Award
- 2021, 2022 & 2023 Specialist Dance School of the Year
- 2022 Digital Business of the Year
- 2022 Best Dance Outreach Programmes Provider – UK
- 2021 Leader of the Year (Rachael Hurton)
- 2021 Diversity & Inclusion Award SRA
Speak to us today – we are always available to discuss the particular needs of your centre and members or students.
We remove the usual barriers by providing, accessible, welcoming fun activities. This enables new life-skills, confidence, self-esteem, independence and resilience, and new important friendships/networks with others with similar lived experience.
The Benefits
We know from feedback how our services improve:
– Physical and mental wellbeing
– Building of confidence, resilience, self-belief, hope for the future
– Increase endorphins and can help reduce/manage chronic pain, cortisol levels and associated stress/anxiety,
– Emotional regulation, boosts the immune system,
– Body/spatial awareness, balance, fitness, core strength, stamina, flexibility, motor skills and posture.
Classes enable learning teamwork, creative thinking/expression and empathy for others, help raise aspirations and improve empowerment through learning activities and tools to help control their own wellbeing.
Are you fully inclusive?
We offer partners the opportunity to be inclusive, offering diversity of choice from schools, to leisure chains to care homes. We support carers’ networks, local befriending and volunteering services and offer opportunities for people with SEND to build up their skills for leadership programmes and Levelling Up. SDO are also keen to provide work experience and placement opportunities for SEND young people.
We further connect with other organisations which support specific groups we are targeting – for example we are working with British Blind Sport, FND Hope UK, Active Surrey, Sport England, Everyone Active, Places for People, Freedom Leisure and are now celebrating some 60 or so partnerships.
We aim to be fully inclusive in all we do. We observe Safeguarding practice and the protection of children and adults within our activities.
More Information
Our courses
Synergy Outreach delivers sessions in schools to target inactive children who may especially benefit from an inclusive and specialist dance and movement class. We also provide one to one support via SENCO in our schools. Our delivery expands to sports centres, care homes and may be live or On Demand or a combination of both.
Our courses are suitable for:
– The disability community
– Those with SEND
– Seniors – Healthy ageing and low impact programmes
– Those with Long Term Health Conditions (LTHC)
– Visually impaired/Blind
– Deaf community and Hard of hearing
– School children, teens and young people
For more information, or for a list of our specialised and inclusive classes please email admin@synergydance.co.uk
Something for everyone
Our delivery is hybrid – exercise anywhere anytime – from the comfort of your home or live on site. See our platform – Synergy Active Online for all the opportunities to practice fitness and build confidence.
Our mixture of dance styles, choreography and music appeals to both boys and girls, and the blend of drama and dance is unique.
There is something for everyone in our vibrant mix of dance, fitness and yoga and fun, themed workshops, standing and seated classes, and ever developing range of courses.
The future
In the long term, we predict that the Synergy Dance® Outreach program will help participants to improve their fitness levels, happiness and wellbeing. We are on a mission to increase exercise take up throughout the UK by 50% via the sectors we serve.
We intend to:
- Reach more participants with SEND Nationally
- Continue to pioneer new ways of exercising and focus on Wellness
- Expand our skilled and trained instructors
- Provide quality dance, fitness and yoga provision at affordable prices
- Provide opportunities for children to perform in the community
- Work with the local community and involve users in the design of our programmes
- Facilitate the engagement of volunteers, internships and placements
- Expand our digital delivery – which is now National.
Following our fast expansion – we are piloting Franchise opportunities. To find out more contact admin@synergydanceoutreach.co.uk
The outreach program is expanding Nationally due to popular demand, and would like to hear from partners, Ambassadors, Volunteers, sponsors, teachers, other charities and anyone wishing to start a Synergy Dance Outreach Franchise programme in their area.
