Positivity In Motion

March 11, 2026

Because of you, a child on a hospital ward gets to dance.

Positivity in Motion takes dance, yoga, music, mindfulness and creative movement directly onto hospital wards. Not to the playrooms or the leisure areas, but to the bedsides of seriously ill children who can't get there themselves.

The children who benefit most are often the hardest to reach. Children in intensive care, on high dependency units, in isolation rooms. Children who haven't left their ward in weeks. Some are seven months old. Some are eighteen. Some have complex medical needs, limited mobility, or no shared language with the therapist. Some have IV lines in their arms.

The session comes to them.

In partnership with our delivery partner, Synergy Dance Outreach, Imagine This funds weekly ward visits where therapists bring movement, music and creativity to the bedside. They read the room. If a child can't use their right arm, the session uses the left. If a child's exhausted and wants to watch from bed, that's fine. If a toddler waiting for a transplant needs nursery rhymes sung quietly at the bedside, that's what happens.

A girl has a cannula in her hand. When the therapist says they're going to dance, she jumps off the bed so fast with excitement, the alarm on her machine keeps going off! She thinks it's a party! And when the session eventually ends and the therapist has to leave, she bursts into tears…this is how meaningful these sessions are for these children.

An eighteen-year-old does a full yoga session with her mum beside her. Afterwards, her mum asks how to enrol her daughter in regular classes when she's well enough to go home!

Not every child wants to join in, and that's fine too. A girl who's known to lash out sits quietly through a whole session, calm, with scarves and music!

Parents get something out of it too.

A few minutes where they're not carrying everything. Siblings find somewhere to be that isn't just waiting. Nurses look over from across the ward, and you can see their faces change with the sound of children laughing.

"We need you here every day."

Hospital Play Therapist,

"It was so helpful for me to have someone entertain my daughter while I was being cared for."

Parent

"The sessions helped my daughter relax and gave her something to look forward to."

Parent of a teenage participant

"Seeing the smiles on the children's faces, even just for a short while, makes such a difference."

Hospital Nurse

So far

Imagine This has funded Positivity in Motion at Great Ormond Street Hospital and Evelina London Children's Hospital. We're bringing it to two more hospitals in 2026 and 2027 and we couldn’t be more excited.