Join our Board

We’re seeking new Trustees as we transition to charity

We are recruiting

Lancashire’s leading dance and health organisation, LPM Dance, is seeking people with a passion for socially engaged practice to join their Board of Trustees and support the company’s transition to charity status.

Help us bring dance and creative health opportunities to communities that need it most.

LPM is an artist-led company based in Lancashire. Over the last 12 years we have built an impressive track record for delivering socially engaged projects involving performance and participation that have been shown to improve health, wellbeing and community cohesion.

We are particularly seeking Trustees with experience in one or more of the following areas:

  • Fundraising & Partnerships: Proven ability to fundraise and cultivate relationships with potential donors, funders, and partners.
  • Finance & Governance: Experience in financial oversight, charity governance, and strategic planning.
  • Charity transition: Experience setting up/transitioning an organisation with/to charity status.
  • Arts & Culture: A background in the arts, music, or cultural development

Skills and attributes

  • A passion for social justice, creative expression, and community-led change.
  • The ability to work collaboratively in a team setting.
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
  • An understanding of and commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion.
  • A commitment to working towards reducing our environmental impact as we move towards sustainability.

Want to apply?

Send us up to one page / 500 words or a film/audio recording, no longer than 3 minutes.

Tell us who you are, how your experience would be valuable for LPM Dance and why you’re interested in being on our Board.

Email – lpmdanceforhealth@gmail.com or contact us if you would like to arrange an informal chat about the opportunity

Lisa Simpson – Chair

I’m a Liverpool based choreographer, workshop leader, and Director of Lisa Simpson Inclusive Dance.

Following on from a successful two years as an Artist in Residence at the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan), I’m currently now a Leader in Residence for the next 3 years.

At present, I’m the Artist Director working with Sense Touchbase Pears on an exciting new National Inclusive Dance Programme.

I recently collaborated with Rosie Kay Dance Company on a ‘Developing Your Creative Practice’ project. Branching Out was an opportunity to further my choreographic practice with the most incredible team of collaborators. The team consisted of the visual artist Louis Price, a sound designer Lee Affen, a lighting designer Brent Lees,  Translator Rebecca Randall and mentor Rosie Kay together with dancers Harriet Ellis and Luke Bradshaw.

I have Quadriplegia Cerebral Palsy and no verbal communication. I developed a unique methodology for realising my own choreographic work using the Simpson Board; a choreography tool created in partnership with Adam Benjamin co-founder of Candoco Dance Company in 1995 and now deliver workshops nationally, widening access for people with disabilities to gain skills in choreography and realise their creative potential.

Diane Sammons – Vice Chair

Believing that if you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.. my great passion and professional journey of 30 years has been in pursuit of this in relation to disability. My most important learning has come from my search for making meaningful connection with the hardest to reach individuals, so they can lead a more empowered quality of life. As an advanced practitioner, issue-based performance tutor, curriculum manager and performing arts programme manager in a Lancaster specialist college for people with complex needs, I drew on a range of highly relevant approaches including coaching, counselling, Intensive Interaction, Sensory Integration, and using the arts as an inclusive platform for unheard expressions. During the development of the arts-based curriculum, we partnered with a range of local arts companies to deliver the subjects, including working with many generations of LUDUS dance artists and inspirational dance companies.

Committed to challenging mindsets and developing best practice in others, I became a teaching and learning assessor and trainer in the sector, on the ‘Opening Doors’ course at the Tate Liverpool and coaching assessor.

Since retirement, I’m now experiencing the joys of being a hands-on grandma, fiddling in a band and choral singing. I am also an active climate campaigner, raising awareness of how important it is to keep peat in the ground, not in bags, so it can continue to be nature’s powerful carbon store.

Elisa Macauley

Elisa’s twenty-year career as a dance artist, tutor, lecturer and choreographer; has led her to work extensively throughout the UK and in France, Belgium, Italy, Malaysia, Singapore, China, Kosovo and Columbia.

Between 1993 and 2009 she performed with companies including Moving Being, Attic Dance and Ludus Dance Company, working with choreographers such as David Massingham, Sean Feldman, Hannah Gilgren and TC Howard and also as a freelance dance artist for Welsh Independent Dance; Compagnie Raffinot (France); Trip Switch (Wales & Italy) and as a guest performer with Japan based Moving Earth company in residency at St Donat’s Castle Wales, performing in their acclaimed durational work ‘24 hours of light’. She also has an impressive track record for creating work for film and television.

Elisa’s recent MA research drew upon interconnections between the fields of Sociology and Dance by way of identifying Contemporary dance culture and artistic practice as a sociological perspective and a viable lens through which to examine social and cultural worlds.

Over recent years Elisa has worked extensively in Higher Education. Most recently at Edge Hill University.

Her other research interests include: African diaspora dance and Post Colonial studies and also Dance and Disability with relation to inclusive dance teaching practice.

She continues promote the exchange of dance knowledge both within and outside the academic field, extending dance to a range of people of various abilities, disabilities and ages ranging from early years to the elderly.

Elisa has taught for LPM’s dance for Parkinson’s programme and RetroSpective.

Elisa is the programme leader for BA Dance at Salford University.

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