Dancers’ Career Development is the charity that’s here for every dancer – across every genre, across the UK, and at every career stage. Regular donations help DCD provide year-round services to dancers.
To make a regular or one-off donation, please click here.
To find out more about legacy giving, please click here.
If you would like to discuss making a donation, please contact development@thedcd.org.uk and a member of the team will be delighted to speak with you.
The Prue Skene Fund
In 2025, DCD were invited by the family of Prue Skene CBE to establish a fund in her name. Prue was a Senior Arts Leader and a passionate champion for dance, whose leadership and belief in artists significantly impacted the UK’s dance sector. DCD is the charity where she undertook her first Trustee role.
Prue’s family would like to continue her work in nurturing the next generation of cultural leaders and changemakers. The Prue Skene Fund will make an award to a professional dancer to develop and progress within the creative industries at the end of their performance career.
If you would like to donate to the fund, please click here, where you can choose the amount of your donation. After completing your contact details, please write ‘Prue Skene Fund’ in the message of support. Alternatively, email development@thedcd.org.uk for information on other methods of giving.
When was the last time a dancer left you speechless? Perhaps in the incredible physicality of a ZooNation hip-hop performance, or the intricate perfection of a Royal Ballet pas de deux?
But what happens when these dancers take their final steps and share their final performance? The same dedication and commitment to dance excellence that left audiences speechless left little time for building an identity outside of dance, and many are without the typical academic qualifications or professional connections shared by their contemporaries outside the dance sector.
At Dancers’ Career Development, we know the extraordinary determination, creativity, teamwork ethic and resilience dancers demonstrate throughout their performance career, can be channelled and enable them to excel in their next career.
For 50 years, we have enabled and empowered dancers to transition into the next stage of their working lives, identifying and utilising their transferable skills in a new field, either within the arts or another industry.
But to continue to do this, we need your support.
In collaboration with dancers, we have designed a range of effective programmes and services that equip dancers with the tools, resources, insight, connections and mental resilience to pursue whichever career they choose, and become a success.
We ask you to reciprocate the joy those dancers gave you through their artform, by supporting their next journey and making a transformational gift to DCD.
Thank you.
If you are interested in learning more about supporting DCD, please contact: development@thedcd.org.uk
Dancers’ Career Development is indebted to the following Trusts and Foundations who have chosen to support our work, changing dancers’ lives:
