17/07/2026
Team DAZL - Dance & Health Charity
📊 DAZL Leeds Family Healthy Living Service 2025–26: A Year of Incredible Impact! 💜🌈
We're proud to share the difference DAZL has made across Leeds over the past year, helping thousands of children, young people and families become more active, healthier and happier through dance, healthy living and community engagement. Non of this would be possible without the support of Leeds Public Health
✨ 2025–26 Highlights:
💜 2,264 regular activity sessions delivered. 👧🧒 3,835 individual children and young people engaged.
🙌 Average attendance of 3,625 across our weekly programmes.
🍎 103 healthy eating and food activity sessions delivered.
🎭 107 outreach and engagement events, including Public Health campaigns.
🌟 1,539 young people performed at community events.
👏 Over 40,000 audience members engaged, including 11,814 children and 29,163 adults.
Our work continues to reach those who need it most, supporting:
💛 240 looked after children and young people.
♿ 166 children and young people with disabilities.
🤝 249 referrals into DAZL from partner organisations.
💚 22 referrals into healthy lifestyle activities.
We also proudly celebrated the diversity of the communities we serve, delivering inclusive opportunities for children and young people from a wide range of backgrounds, while supporting families through our HENRY Healthy Families programme and providing enriching school holiday activities.
Every session, every performance and every smile represents another young person growing in confidence, improving their wellbeing and discovering that they belong.
A huge thank you to our amazing participants, families, staff, volunteers, partners and Leeds City Council for helping us continue to change lives through dance. Together, we're building healthier, happier and more connected communities across Leeds. 💜
Leeds Community Foundation
FoodWise Leeds
Leeds City Council Inner East Community Committee Leeds City Council Public Health Resource Centre Child Friendly Leeds Leeds City Council Outer South Community Committee Leeds City Council Inner South Community Committee Leeds City Council Outer West Community Committee Leeds City Council Inner West Community Committee SDP Middleton Park - Cllr Chesterfield, Dixon & Pogson-Golden Leeds Arts, Health and Wellbeing Network