A GROUP of girls have put on their dancing shoes to give them more confidence.
Regular evening dance sessions have been taking place at the Broad Street Young People’s Centre, in Broad Street.
It has enabled about a dozen 11 to 17-year-old girls to become accomplished performers and grow their confidence.
Clare Loughlin, senior youth worker at the centre, said: “The dance workshops have given the girls so much more self-belief than they had before. They create their own routines, which range from flapper moves to street dancing, and choose the music.
“As well as developing new skills, they feel they are being taken seriously because they can see their ideas are being listened to, and they have gained the confidence to perform on stage.
“They also have the opportunity to use other facilities here, such as the recording studio.
“We are now planning to hold street dance and hip hop workshops for boys later this year.”
And because of this success dance workshops will be featuring in Splash – a half-term holiday programme for 14 to 19-year-olds in Foleshill.
A dance workshop will be held next week on Tuesday evening and another on Saturday afternoon.
Other activities young people can take part in include drama and cookery workshops, art and crafts, music recording sessions and football.
Staff from Coventry Connexions will also be on hand during half-term to provide advice and information on health, careers, money, education and much more.
About £5million of government money has been made available to young people in Coventry between 2008 and 2011 through the Positive Activities for Young People programme.
PAYP provides intensive activity-based activities, targeted at young people at risk of negative outcomes, such as involvement in anti-social behaviour and crime, as part of Department for Children, Schools and Families’ Aiming High for Young People strategy.
The girls taking part in the dance sessions will perform at the Ricoh Arena on Friday March 26 to celebrate the achievements of PAYP in the city.
For more information about the Splash programme or the term time dance workshops, call the centre on 024 7678 5179.
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