Dance Fund Application

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Guidance Notes

In order to apply for one of our grants, we need to ask you a range of questions about yourself, your income, your activities and your needs. 


All of the information that you provide in this application form will be kept confidential in line with our Privacy Policy and The Dance Professionals Fund will never use it for any purpose other than in relation to your application for support.


Please note that we will need you to upload the following documentation when completing this form. 

  • A copy of your dance CV (Word or PDF format)
  • Any supporting documentation around your income e.g. benefit entitlement
  • Copies of your most recent monthly bank statements
  • If applying for living costs, quotes or supporting evidence for consumer items
  • If applying for our retraining grant, documentation relating to your course
  • If applying for our wellbeing/injury grant, documentation relating to your medical treatment

How can we help you?

We need to know what kind of help you are asking for and the details of support you have received so far. This excludes any benefits, as we will ask for these later on, but does include support from any other theatrical funds or other charities.



E.g. Equity, One Dance UK, RAD





Your details.

We need to gather some information about you including details of your dance career. This will require uploading a copy of your professional CV. 




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More about you.

We need to get some details on your current employment status, your household situation and your caring responsibilities.
















About your income.

We need to know about your income. This is the income that you are currently receiving and includes any benefits that you receive. If you live with your partner, providing their average monthly income helps us better understand your total household incomings. 


From the following, which of these incomes do you have?


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About your expenditure.

We use something called the Minimum Income Standards (A standard below which no one should be expected to live) to assess your expenditure, for instance on food and drink. 


In this section, we need to know about your contribution to outgoing costs listed below.


From the following, which of these outgoings do you have?

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Your savings and assets.

Please provide details from all of your bank and savings accounts.

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From the following, which of these savings do you have?

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Assets


From the following, which of these assets do you have?
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Debts


From the following, which of these debts do you have?
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Bank details.

Please enter the bank details for the account that your grant will be paid into if your grant application is successful.

About your application.

Please make sure you have selected which grant you are applying for on page 2.

Please use this section to explain more about your circumstances and why you require a financial grant. Examples of this could be an illness that has affected your ability to earn as much as you used to. If you are applying for specific items as part of this request, please attach quotes if possible. 




Please use this section to explain more about your circumstances and why you require a financial grant. Examples of this could be  an injury that requires rehabilitation or you may have indentified a course of councelling that would benfit you. We will require your outlined treatment plan. 






Please use this section to explain more about your retraining plans and why you require financial assistance. You will need to attach the acceptance letter from your training provider, with details of course costs.  If you are applying for costs outside of the training course, attach details of these, e.g. rental agreement.  





Consent.

The details and sensitive information you have provided in this application form will be kept confidential in line with our Privacy Policy. The Dance Professionals Fund will never use it for any purpose other than in relation to your application for support.


Please read and approve the declaration: 

I give my consent to Dance Professionals Fund to process this information for the purposes of:

  • My application being considered for a grant by the Applications Committee.
  • The Dance Professionals Fund sharing my details with other charities that may be able to assist me (where this is the case, we have sharing agreements in place, in line with UK GDPR)

I have read the Dance Professionals Fund Privacy Policy.

The particulars that I have given on this application form are to the best of my knowledge correct.



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