WELCOME
Dance Sport Trust
Who We Are
Dance Sport Trust is an independent resource and conversation platform created to support the Ballroom and Latin American dance community with clear, balanced information around development, wellbeing, safeguarding awareness and long-term participation.
Founded by Nicole Cutler, Andrew Cuerden and Kate Basile, the Trust brings together different experiences of competitive DanceSport, teaching, coaching, performance, studio life and supporting dancers and families.
Through guides, articles, tools, conversations and other resources, we aim to make useful, reliable information easier to find, understand and return to for dancers, parents, teachers and professionals across the DanceSport community.
The Trust is intended to support people across the community, regardless of age, background, role, level of participation or pathway through dance.
Our Mission
Our mission is to gather and share thoughtful guidance, practical resources and informed perspectives, especially where dance, sport, performance, development and wellbeing overlap.
DanceSport often sits between sporting and performing arts frameworks, which means clear guidance on development, wellbeing, safeguarding awareness and long-term participation is not always easy to find.
We aim to help bridge that gap by drawing on recognised knowledge from child development, youth sport, safeguarding, performing arts education and dancer wellbeing, and translating it into balanced information, practical resources and thoughtful insight for the community.
Our vision is a DanceSport community where development, wellbeing, welfare and long-term participation are understood as part of the same wider conversation.
Explore More
Explore guides, articles, tools, conversations and other Dance Sport Trust resources in one place.
Thoughtful conversations bringing together lived experience, perspectives and informed discussion from across DanceSport.
Find wellbeing information and UK and Ireland support services relevant to the DanceSport community.
Conversations
EPISODE 01. The Founders
Why We Started the Conversation
In the first episode of Dance Sport Trust Conversations, founding members Nicole Cutler, Andrew Cuerden and Kate Basile speak with host Carmen Rendell about why the Trust was created, the gap it hopes to address and the values shaping its development.
The conversation offers a starting point for anyone who would like to understand what Dance Sport Trust is and how it hopes to support the community over time.
