Although Jack Widdowsons return to dance after a life threatening neck injury occurred before we set up this charity, his recovery was the inspiration behind it. We had been in  the very  fortunate position of having plenty of specialist knowledge and resources available to help him and wanted to make this available to others.

We could see that there was very little specialist sports medicine help available for dancers generally and friends and family decided to address this problem, so we set up the Dance Again Foundation.  

​We work in three ways 

• giving help and advice to individual dancers around dance injury 
• working with the NHS and other providers to improve provision of dance clinics and clinicians 
• hold fundraising events to highlight the importance of dance and dance medicine 

.The aim is to enable the dancer to return safely to their career. We can help dancers find help for anything from a clicking hip to knee pain, the idea is to avoid an acute problem becoming chronic. Knowing where to start or who to contact confidentially about an injury can be a worrying time for the dancer. 

The Dance Again Foundation has a network of experienced specialist therapists, sports physicians and surgeons across the UK. Since September 2014 we have partnered with the Royal United NHS Trust Hospital in Bath so  dancers can also access the  specialist NHS sports and dance trauma clinic there  via GP referral (Choose and Book e referral. This service  has  attendant consultants and specialist physiotherapists who have extensive experience with dancers. Wait times from referral are approximately 10 days. This is one of the three NIDMS clinics nationwide.