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My name is Liahona and I am the director and head teacher of ConnectEd Dance Company for children age 2-13. We are located out of Melville hall. Last term we were granted Sport New Zealand's Tu Manawa funding to offer need based scholarships for local tamariki (aged 5+ specifically) to participate in dance. Rather than lowering our regular fees for all as many of our whanau can afford the services we offer, we have sought to target funding at those who need it. However, sometimes those tamariki are harder to find as they may love to dance but their family might not know it is a possibility. 

If you have students who would benefit from opportunities to dance we'd love to get them moving. 

Attached is a letter with more info. We seek to remove barriers to participation in high quality dance that includes play, skill development, creative dance making, and performance opportunities. Scholarships available would see your students through Term 3 & 4 2024.

There are a couple of ways students could access the scholarship and get involved. If you feel comfortable you are welcome to share the attached letter with your school whanau. They could contact me themselves and apply for a scholarship at around 40% off. 

Or, you could have teachers select students who are in need and who are keen to dance, this would make it easier to offer more funding, in other words if the school is aware of those who could really benefit from dance and could support the need based application then more funding could be offered based on referral system. 

Do let me know if you would like more information. I'd be happy to pop in to chat about how we can serve your students. :) 

Ngaa Mihi, Lia www.connecteddance.co.nz