Help Me Reach My Royal Ballet School Dream
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Can you help me reach my dream?

Update: 20th August 2019 - I’ve reached my £35,000 target! This means I have the fees covered for my first year!
Thank you to Air Asia who are going to sponsor me and share my ballet story.
All funds raised now on my go-fund-me will be towards my second year at The Royal Ballet School.
Hello. My name is Luca Phoenix and I’m 11 years old.
I began dancing when I was 3 years old but I began taking it more seriously when I was 6 and I started to take dance exams. When I do ballet I feel free from everything, like I’m defying gravity - it’s magical!
When I was 7 years old I watched Billy Elliot for the first time and realised that I could go to a school where I could do ballet everyday. It’s all I’ve ever wanted to do since then.
I come from Harrogate in England but my family moved abroad when I was little for my mum’s work. We used to live in Malaysia but we came back to England last summer so that I could try to achieve my dream to study ballet at The Royal Ballet School. This year I have been going to The Academy of Northern Ballet in Leeds and to The Royal Ballet Junior Associates in Manchester where I do about 14 hours of training a week after I finish school and at the weekend. I have worked hard to improve my ballet because I know that it is really hard to get into the Royal Ballet School as they only have 12 places for boys each year. In January I auditioned and was offered a place! Finding out that they accepted me was the best day of my life!
Unfortunately, my parents cannot afford over £34,500 for me to go to the school on top of my dance clothes, my dance shoes and travel costs. My Mum and Dad are both teachers and are trying hard to earn enough money for me to go to the school but I know it’s a struggle for them to pay for me to do this. They both gave up their jobs in Malaysia to support me but it has been expensive for us to move back and they have had to do different jobs so they can get me to my dance classes. Because I haven’t been living in England long enough I can’t get help with my school fees from the government like some of the other students can which is why I’m asking for your help.
I love ballet more than anything else and I would be very sad if I couldn’t get to the school after working so hard to get a place. That is why I’m asking you if you could help me raise enough money for me to go to The Royal Ballet School? Any donations of any amount will be such an amazing help to me.
Please will you help me achieve my dream?
Thank you.
Luca
Here's where the money is going:
- The annual fee for the Royal Ballet School is £34,575 and because I've been living abroad with my family I don't qualify for any UK Government funding for my first two years at the school.
- Uniform, Ballet clothes, shoes which is around £400 a term.
- Music lessons £175 a term
- Travel expenses - every three weeks I get to come home for the weekend and this will help pay my train fare back to Harrogate.
I am trying to raise the first instalment of my fees by September 2019.
My article in the Yorkshire Post

Update: 20th August 2019 - I’ve reached my £35,000 target! This means I have the fees covered for my first year!
Thank you to Air Asia who are going to sponsor me and share my ballet story.
All funds raised now on my go-fund-me will be towards my second year at The Royal Ballet School.
Hello. My name is Luca Phoenix and I’m 11 years old.
I began dancing when I was 3 years old but I began taking it more seriously when I was 6 and I started to take dance exams. When I do ballet I feel free from everything, like I’m defying gravity - it’s magical!
When I was 7 years old I watched Billy Elliot for the first time and realised that I could go to a school where I could do ballet everyday. It’s all I’ve ever wanted to do since then.
I come from Harrogate in England but my family moved abroad when I was little for my mum’s work. We used to live in Malaysia but we came back to England last summer so that I could try to achieve my dream to study ballet at The Royal Ballet School. This year I have been going to The Academy of Northern Ballet in Leeds and to The Royal Ballet Junior Associates in Manchester where I do about 14 hours of training a week after I finish school and at the weekend. I have worked hard to improve my ballet because I know that it is really hard to get into the Royal Ballet School as they only have 12 places for boys each year. In January I auditioned and was offered a place! Finding out that they accepted me was the best day of my life!
Unfortunately, my parents cannot afford over £34,500 for me to go to the school on top of my dance clothes, my dance shoes and travel costs. My Mum and Dad are both teachers and are trying hard to earn enough money for me to go to the school but I know it’s a struggle for them to pay for me to do this. They both gave up their jobs in Malaysia to support me but it has been expensive for us to move back and they have had to do different jobs so they can get me to my dance classes. Because I haven’t been living in England long enough I can’t get help with my school fees from the government like some of the other students can which is why I’m asking for your help.
I love ballet more than anything else and I would be very sad if I couldn’t get to the school after working so hard to get a place. That is why I’m asking you if you could help me raise enough money for me to go to The Royal Ballet School? Any donations of any amount will be such an amazing help to me.
Please will you help me achieve my dream?
Thank you.
Luca
Here's where the money is going:
- The annual fee for the Royal Ballet School is £34,575 and because I've been living abroad with my family I don't qualify for any UK Government funding for my first two years at the school.
- Uniform, Ballet clothes, shoes which is around £400 a term.
- Music lessons £175 a term
- Travel expenses - every three weeks I get to come home for the weekend and this will help pay my train fare back to Harrogate.
I am trying to raise the first instalment of my fees by September 2019.
My article in the Yorkshire Post
Organizer and beneficiary
Luca Phoenix
Organizer
Sarah Phoenix
Beneficiary