DCD invites applications for NED SHERRIN BURSARY worth £4000

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26/05/2010

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DCD invites applications for NED SHERRIN BURSARY worth £4000

Dancers' Career Development (DCD) is currently inviting applications from commercial and independent dancers for its special annual NED SHERRIN BURSARY.  This dancer retraining bursary is worth £4,000.00 and it is awarded in memory of DCD’s late Trust Chairman Ned Sherrin CBE.

The NED SHERRIN BURSARY is the most valuable retraining bursary DCD is currently able to offer to independent dancers.  It was made possible by generous donations from various organisations and individuals to honour the late Ned Sherrin’s memory.

All commercial or independent dancers are welcome to apply if they have been a professional dancer for at least eight years and have performed a minimum of five of these in the UK, or earlier if they had to retire due to injury or illness.  The bursary is aimed to finance a personal retraining plan for a professional dancer, which leads to an accredited career or business start-up inside or outside the dance industry. 

DCD is unable to accept applications from dancers not fulfilling the minimum criteria or to fund dance training.  The application deadline is 5pm on Wednesday 1^st September 2010, and the proposed retraining project should begin only after this deadline and within one year after the award has been granted. 

Dancers' Career Development is unique in its mandate to offer a holistic and comprehensive range of specialist and confidential practical, psychological and financial retraining and career support services to all professional dancers in the United Kingdom.  DCD’s range of services is dancer-driven, strictly confidential and tailored to each individual’s needs. 

Ned Sherrin, who died in 2007, was well known and much loved as a writer, producer, presenter, actor and broadcaster.  He was an equally passionate, articulate, and committed supporter of the dance industry, particularly the freelance and commercial dance sector.  Ned chaired the Independent Trust Division of Dancers' Career Development, which supports all UK freelance, commercial and Musical Theatre dancers, since 1998. 

There will also be Acting for Others bursaries available.

For further information on the bursary or general enquiries please contact DCD on 020 7831 1449, e-mail admin@thedcd.org.uk or visit our website on www.thedcd.org.uk.