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Financial Assistance

At NBS we believe that dance education should be accessible to all members of our community and work to remove barriers that may deter potential students from pursuing their passion and talent for dance.

 

Working with key partners in the community, we’re able to address financial barriers and provide financial assistance to children ages 7-12 who have a love for dance and the drive to pursue formal training.

 

Financial assistance for our Young Dancers Program covers all program fees and uniform costs. No dance experience is required for students ages 12 and under.

 

 

Application Process

 

Scholarships are awarded on a comprehensive, needs-based assessment and cover all program fees and uniform costs. Successful candidates will join the Young Dancers Program at a class level determined by the Program Manager.

 

Funding for each child will be re-evaluated annually with the intention of supporting participants throughout their engagement in the junior levels of the Young Dancers Program.

 

We are no longer accepting financial assistance applications for 2022/23. For questions regarding our financial assistance program, please contact registrar@nbs-enb.ca.

The Renette Berman Family Scholarship Program

This scholarship provides all program fees and uniform costs to young students accepted into NBS’ Young Dancers Program. Providing access to dancers during their formative training years, it has been created and supported through the generous gift of Renette Berman and her family.

Eligibility: This scholarship is available to children ages 7-12 entering NBS’ Young Dancers Program. Current Young Dancers Program students, within the same age/level, are also eligible to apply. Scholarships are awarded on a comprehensive, needs-based assessment.

 

About This Scholarship: The Renette Berman Family Scholarship Program marks a significant growth in NBS’ capacity to support inclusion and accessibility in NBS’ Young Dancers Program. It enabled NBS to significantly grow the number of financially-subsidized spaces available in the Young Dancers Program, and builds upon financial support programs currently in place thanks to the contributions provided by the William R. and Shirley Beatty Fund, the Delaney Family Scholarship, and the Carole and Howard Tanenbaum Family Foundation.

The Delaney Family Scholarship Fund

The Delaney Family have been long standing donors to NBS. During NBS’ 60th Anniversary year, a fund was established to address student financial assistance for new dancers to the Young Dancers Program; this helped to ensure that dancers of all stages have access to the highest quality training at NBS.

Daniel Neville-Lake Fund

As a way to honour the memory of Daniel-William Roger Neville-Lake, and his love for dance, Many Hands Doing Good established this Fund with Canada's National Ballet School to encourage boys, particularly those aged up to 9 years of old, to remove financial barriers and encourage their participation in dance classes at Canada’s National Ballet School.

When Daniel was 6 years old he came to me and said, “Mom, I want to do ballet.” 

 

I was a little surprised and thinking that he might be confusing ballet with something else, asked if he knew what ballet was.  We took books and videos out of the public library and sure enough, it was ballet that he wanted to do.  He danced with the City of Brampton Dance Department and every Mother’s Day, my gift was that he was on stage dancing for me.  He had a passion and love for ballet and even when given a choice to do something else he always chose ballet.  He was starting his fourth year as a dancer and took a lot of pride in his art.

 

- Jennifer Neville-Lake, mother


As a way to honour the memory of Daniel-William Roger Neville-Lake, and his love for dance, Many Hands Doing Good established this Fund with Canada's National Ballet School to encourage boys, particularly those aged up to 9 years of old, to remove financial barriers and encourage their participation in dance classes at Canada’s National Ballet School.

 

Contributions from the community to the Fund are always welcome and can be done here:

  • Visit the NBS Endowment page

  • Select designation Daniel Neville-Lake Fund in the drop down.

The growth of the Fund provides ballet access to more boys.