Creative Academy Inspire Programme
The Inspire Programme: Widening Participation
Creative Academy College
Slough and Windsor Schools Dance Programme
Slough Schools Dance Festival
Spiral Dance for adults with learning difficulties
This Boy Can Dance Too
Outreach to FE and Pre-voc
Inspire is Creative Academy’s flagship access and participation strand, taking high-quality dance and performing arts into schools, community venues and specialist settings across Slough and Windsor. Led by professional practitioners working alongside BA Dance undergraduates, the programme provides children and young people with inspirational role models while giving students invaluable real-world teaching experience.
At the heart of Inspire is our commitment to put dance into every Slough school. We deliver classes across the town, led by professional dance teachers working alongside Creative Academy Year 2 and Year 3 BA (Hons) Dance students.
This approach ensures that pupils experience high-quality teaching, while our undergraduate dancers gain vital real-world experience as emerging practitioners, role models and mentors.
For children and young people, Inspire provides regular, affordable dance and musical theatre classes in partnership with Prodigy Dance Studios, Drishti Dance Company and Srishti Dance Company.
This unique collaboration brings together a range of styles, traditions and professional expertise, giving local participants a rich, high-quality training experience right on their doorstep.
Overall, the Inspire Programme is designed to ensure that children, young people and adults in Slough can see themselves in dance and the wider creative industries.
By making activity accessible, local and relevant, it empowers participants to imagine creative futures, supports health and well-being, and contributes directly to a vibrant, diverse cultural ecosystem for Slough.
Inspire includes weekly Slough & Windsor Schools Dance classes, the rapidly expanding Slough Schools Dance Festival, now featuring more than 450 young performers, and Spiral, an uplifting weekly dance class for adults with learning disabilities. The whole programme is unapologetically about breaking down barriers for under-represented communities, proving that dance can be a realistic pathway to better health, stronger communities and future careers in the creative industries.