Ignore the news postings below, we currently stand at just over £2,750 !  The day was a huge success and great fun (honest !)  See the Events Page for a run down including photo gallery

Great news - at close of business last night we had exactly £1,000 pledged in sponsorship for the 24 hour Marathon Foxtrot.

Incredible, thank you everyone.

Thank you everyone - so far we have just broken the £900 barrier, with £905 pledged in sponsorship.  There's still roughly 4 weeks to the event so who knows how high this might get !

I've been asked by a couple of people - 'Where have the steps gone ?'.  Great question, tricky answer.

For about two years the website has been a combination of 'front end' - i.e. facing you guys, telling you what events are coming up, allowing you to book online etc, and 'back office' - i.e. holding data on steps, classes, routines etc.

The problem with this is that the hosting software was more aimed at the former than the latter.  We could make it do the 'back office' stuff but the coding ended up being a bit Heath Robinson to make it interactive enough, which in turn made it cumbersome for us to update.  In addition, the website itself was beginning to look a bit unwieldy, and lastly the domain host we use has a limit on pages which we were bumping up against.

We've spent the first half of this year looking at alternatives, none of which gave us exactly what we wanted.

What we've therefore done is to split the site in two, having this one doing what it does best - the front end, and a link via the 'Dancers' page to the back office one.

This one has just been recoded from scratch and the back office site has been substantially written, currently being beta tested.  The steps have been migrated onto that one and we hope to have it live in the next few days.  Sorry for the inconvenience, but if you are stumped about something by all means send us an e-mail with your questions

We launched news about our Treehouse Appeal event (see under the Events Page) on Thursday evening and we've already got £180 committed sponsorship - thanks everyone so far. 

The event is still six weeks or so off, so based on this quick start we're encouraged that we will be able to make a very real contribution to this extremely worthwhile cause.

Watch this space for an update.

Have any of you taken the time to read the about the 24 hour Foxtrot Marathon ?  See the Events page.

What was I thinking ?  Have I taken leave of all my senses ? 

Seriously, hope you will support me in this impossible quest for a very worthwhile cause.

Yes - we've got there, at last.

It's been three months in the planning but we've just gone live with a whole new, fully recoded website with loads of new features.

It's not perfect, and some bits are still developing, but we're really pleased with it - let us know what you think

This is a new feature that we have added to the website, the idea is to share our thoughts etc on dancing generally, we hope to reflect some humourous experiences etc, time will tell !