

B&D Youth Dance
Barking and Dagenham Youth Dance (BDYD) is a small charity who use the power of dance, arts and culture to give young people a voice, shift power and create young change makers. BDYD is a user led organisation with an eco-system that sees all their projects, events and activities led, shaped and/or delivered by former BDYD service users, ensuring local representation and lived experience plays a key part in the development of their activities. They work with young people from low-income families, marginalised communities and the hard to reach with the aim to create fair and equal opportunities that lead to better education, volunteering and employment pathways.
BDYD is partnering with Lightbulb Trust and its Greenlight Project fund to provide a safe space for young people to explore and research dance in its many forms, and use it as a tool to improve communication skills, increase peer trust and understanding for better community cohesion as well as build confidence and self-esteem to make positive life decisions. BDYD will provide access to high quality dance and arts provision, advice, and connections to help local young people overcome the multiple layers of disadvantage and help them to develop the skills that will lead them to pathways to getting a life, including employment, good health, and mental well-being as well as developing friendships and relationships to help build strong communities.
B&D Youth Dance
Barking and Dagenham Youth Dance (BDYD) is a small charity who use the power of dance, arts and culture to give young people a voice, shift power and create young change makers. BDYD is a user led organisation with an eco-system that sees all their projects, events and activities led, shaped and/or delivered by former BDYD service users, ensuring local representation and lived experience plays a key part in the development of their activities. They work with young people from low-income families, marginalised communities and the hard to reach with the aim to create fair and equal opportunities that lead to better education, volunteering and employment pathways.
BDYD is partnering with Lightbulb Trust and its Greenlight Project fund to provide a safe space for young people to explore and research dance in its many forms, and use it as a tool to improve communication skills, increase peer trust and understanding for better community cohesion as well as build confidence and self-esteem to make positive life decisions. BDYD will provide access to high quality dance and arts provision, advice, and connections to help local young people overcome the multiple layers of disadvantage and help them to develop the skills that will lead them to pathways to getting a life, including employment, good health, and mental well-being as well as developing friendships and relationships to help build strong communities.
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