Other sources of support

DCD are here to support all professional dancers in the UK in their transition into an alternative career after retiring from performance.

Click on the below to find more organisations and national dance bodies and agencies that could offer additional practical, financial, emotional and psychological support for performing artists:

• Acting for Others
• Actors’ Benevolent Fund
• The Actors’ Children’s Trust
• Arts Council England
• British Dance Council
• British Association of Performing Arts Medicine
• The Catholic Association of Performing Arts (CaAPA)
• The Concert Artistes’ Association
• Council for Dance, Drama and Musical Theatre (CDMT)
• Dance 4
• Dance City
• DanceEast
• Dance Mama
• Dance Professionals Fund
• DanceXchange
• Denville Hall
• Drury Lane Theatrical Fund
• English National Opera Benevolent Fund
• Entertainment Agents’ Association Benevolent Fund
• Equity
• Equity Charitable Trust
• The Film and Television Charity
• Grand Order of Water Rats
• Help Musicians 
• International Performers Aid Trust
• King George V Fund for Actors and Actresses
• Lisa Ullmann Travelling Scholarship Fund
• National Resource Centre for Dance (NRCD)
• North West Dance
• One Dance UK
• Pavilion Dance South West
• People Dancing
• Royal Opera House Benevolent Fund
• Royal Society of Musicians
• Royal Variety Charity
• South East Dance
• Swindon Dance
• The Place
• The Ralph and Meriel Richardson Foundation
• The Royal Theatrical Fund
• The Theatrical Guild
• Theatre Chaplaincy UK
• Turn2Us
• Yorkshire Dance

Please note that organisations listed do not necessarily imply endorsement from DCD or vice versa, but are included here as a guide of alternative support that dance artists may find helpful.