United Kingdom

dance4life UK aims to:

• raise awareness amongst young British people of the global HIV and AIDS pandemic and its link to poverty and justice
• raise awareness of HIV and AIDS in the UK, enabling them to make informed choices about their own health
• empower you to become an agent of change – a motivated advocate, campaigner, fundraiser and peer educator

Does this sound interesting to you? Check out the dance4life UK myspace page or go to dance4life UK's website here

UK 2009

In 2009 SPW, the National Concept Owner of dance4life in the UK, is organizing a heart connection tour in 30 schools in various cities all over the country, aiming to create 4,000 agents of change. For these agents of change-to-be, two ‘Weeks of Action’ are planned, one during the summer and one linked to World AIDS Day. In mid-July a ‘dance4life experience’ will be held in London and stakeholders and partners will be invited to experience what dance4life is all about. This year's programme will be supported through a newly branded media campaign.

2008

In 2008 the dance4life team in the UK made massive progress! In the greater London region, 25 schools participated in the heart connection tour and approximately 1,500 agents of change attended the event on the 29th of November. The 2008 event was held and hosted in the grand Ministry of Sound in South London with an impressive line up including DJs such as Alex Gaudino, Darude, Judge Jules, DJ Kutski and Metis. They definitely got the agents of change moving!

With the wonderful help from different fervent media partners there have been numerous publicity materials distributed and there’s even a funky dance4life game on the website!

Reactions to schools4life:
“Everyone who took part was buzzing from the dance4life session. I think they all really enjoyed the 'hands-on' nature of dance4life - it's an excellent way of putting the message across in a more entertaining way. It was a fantastic opportunity for the year 12's, and we are hoping that they will be able to pass the message down to other year groups through assemblies and the like…I know the students gained so much from the experience and as a school we feel honoured to be a part of such a huge and worthwhile movement.” Naomi, Newport, Wales

“I would like to take this opportunity to thank you on behalf of everyone that was involved on Monday as it was simply an amazing experience. The team were brilliant and were an absolute asset to the dance4life organisation. The dancing was great and everbody thoroughlly enjoyed it.” Leonie, Head of school team, Torquay.

“There is a real buzz in school and the kids involved are full of it.”
Gillean, organising teacher, Birmingham.

Want to know about the organisation in the UK? Check the national concept owner (NCO) of the UK here.

More information for schools can be downloaded here.