About Us

ASHAY offer a range of dance, movement, wellbeing, cultural awareness and calendar day themed workshops that can be delivered at workplaces, organisations, community groups, health centre, schools, festivals and private events.

Vision

Sharing, celebrating and uniting our multicultural society through dance and arts provisions.

Mission

Advocacy

Team

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Nisha Lall

Managing Director

Nisha Lall  BA Hons (Dance) & BA Hons (Multimedia) has been a freelance dance and movement practitioner and arts project manager for over 15 years. She has trained in Exercise To Music, Indian, Arabic, Latin and Contemporary styles. Nisha has 15 years experience in delivery of dance and arts projects in educational, professional and community settings.  She has delivered dance sessions in over 150 schools; sessions for the NHS, BBC and Aviva and worked with groups including parent and child, SEND, care homes and refugees.

Nisha Lall’s 5 years of professional experience in multimedia/web development also complement the projects she works on by also being about the provide digital marketing, digital artwork and film production.

Denise Carpenter

Director

Denise Carpenter, now retired, spent the majority of her working life as an Administrator and Events Organiser for various charities, organising training events and workshops locally and nationally, to promote community development and empower communities to have a voice.

She has a keen interest in all types of dance and has assisted Nisha in delivering classes, workshops and performances in latin dance in community venues and schools to promote diversity, inclusivity and health and wellbeing. She believes that by bringing people together via the medium of dance and creative arts, it creates a valuable opportunity to raise awareness of different cultures and identities in the community, allowing people to feel confident that they have a sense of belonging, and feel comfortable mixing and interacting with others.

Ferial Khan

Director

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Join our advisory board

We are looking for enthusiastic individuals who would be willing to volunteer their time to support our projects by offer advice, thoughts and knowledge.
We are particularly interested in individuals from all varying backgrounds who have experience and knowledge in the following areas:

  • Community Sectors (refugees, diverse communities)
  • Education & youth sector
  • EDI (Equality, Diversity & Inclusion)
  • Creative health & wellbeing 
  • SEND provisions
  • Older Adults
  • Digital / Online Learning Systems

Join our freelance team

We are interested to expanding our freelance team and would love to hear from visual artists, dance artists, creative writers, theatre makers, film makers and digital artists,

Supporters

We are grateful to the following clients for their continued support and opportunities for ASHAY Dance.

We are grateful to the following partners who have collaborated with us on projects.

We are extremely grateful to the following funders, who have made our CIC and projects possible:

Become an ASHAY Patron

Not able to participants in our sessions but would still like to support ASHAY?

One off donation or monthly payments can help to support ASHAY Dance programmes, allowing us to reach communities and provide high quality and much needed dance and arts provisions that help improve participants physical activity levels, social interactions, mental health and wellbeing.
By becoming a patron, you will receive our quarterly newsletters and VIP invitations to our events.