PAY IT FORWARD
Making movement accessible and fostering community space!
Growing up, I was raised by my wonder mother, who me and my two siblings. While we still had food on the table and roof over our heads, it was not financially accessible to take dance classes, which is what I loved to do. I was fortune to find through the dance community scholarships and work-study programs to continue my passion of dancing. Later I got a job that provided Pilates group classes to their staff. If it wasn’t these opportunities, I wouldn’t be where I am today. Dance and movement has always been giving me an outlet to express and reconnect to myself and the community, which is why I’m passionate about this new program.
Making movement accessible is important to us!
Our Pay It Forward Program was created to assist those in our community who could benefit from Pilates and movement, but because of financial hardship, may need some help paying for services.
Every time you Pay it Forward the money is placed in a pot to either subsidise and top up what people feel they can pay for a class, or in some situations the money pays for others to have full lessons free of charge.
The money is then put towards studio rental, supporting wages, and pay it forward applicants. Without all of these things classes wouldn’t be able to run and they would be less tailored to people’s needs through lack of adequate equipment.
If you are in a position to donate money to sponsor, subsidise a student in financial difficulty.
You can support students in a variety of ways, for example;
Donating a one-off payment of any amount
Setting up a monthly ‘donation’ membership of any amount starting at $20
Setting up a annual “donation’ membership of any amount starting at $250.
APPLICATION PAY IT FORWARD PROGRAM
If you wish to benefit from the Pay it Forward program, please fill out the form below and Jess will get in touch if there are any class credits available or you will be added to the waitlist and we will be in contact as soon as something becomes available.
