Dancing for Well-Being is delighted to be supported this year by @Coopuk Local Community Fund. To find out more about what we do and choose us as your cause, please click here membership.coop.co.uk/causes… #ItsWhatWeDo

Would you like to see what Dancing for Well-Being is all about? If you live in or near Pateley Bridge we'll be running a free taster session at the Cuppa & Cake group at the Memorial Hall in Pateley on Wednesday 17th August from 2.30 to 3.30 p.m. We'd love to see you there!

Thanks to one of our members - Anne (who knew she was so well-connected!) - we had a very special guest at our Friday Knaresborough group Jubilee party yesterday.

Don't delay - join one of our Dancing for Well-Being groups! It's official - dancing makes you happier! This tell you why - greatergood.berkeley.edu/art…

Today was Jann's last session with the Bilton group before she ties the knot with Nick. We wish you many happy years together!

There's not much time now before the deadline for applications for our Manager job - 22nd July. To find out more please click on dancingforwellbeing.org/job-… This is an incredible opportunity for a skilled and highly motivated person to lead and further develop Dancing for Well-Being

Exciting news! We've been awarded National Lottery funding @TNLComFund to build sustainability and reach more people. It's an incredible opportunity, and we now need a skilled and highly motivated Manager to lead us during the next 3 years and beyond. See dancingforwellbeing.org/job-…

Wishing our lovely Starbeck group member, Irene, a very Happy 96th Birthday today! Keeeeeep dancing Irene!

Thank you to everyone who joined Marg, Jean and me from Dancing for Well-Being for some brilliant dancing at the Starbeck Community Day today. You were wonderful! Even our local MP Andrew Jones and County Councillor Philip Broadbank were unable to resist joining in!

Group Leader, Jann, had a lovely surprise this week. The Starbeck group gave her a gift for her wedding next month, saying "Over the past 3 years (forget COVID!) you have brought joy into our lives. We hope this rose "Tranquility" brings you and Nick joy for many years to come".

What a beautiful day! We were able to sit outside to enjoy refreshments and a good natter after dancing today at our Bilton group. Larrie, Bilton Community Centre's Caretaker, very kindly put the umbrellas up so we had the shade we needed. No-one wanted to leave!

Thank you to everyone who danced with us at the wonderful Knaresborough Community Festival this year. Great weather, lovely people, brilliant event!

Celebrating Easter at our Bilton group with some lovely Easter bonnets and bunnies!

We were delighted to have a visit this week to our Bilton group from the High Sheriff of North Yorkshire - Venetia Wrigley. She joined in every dance and loved it! She said she wished Dancing for Well-Being could be rolled out across the country!

Thanks to everyone who joined us at the #connectingcommunities festival. We had a fabulous time 🙌🙌💃🏻

We're back! It's soooo good to be dancing together again at our groups - whoop whoop!

We're going to continue running our Friday Zoom sessions 2.30 - 3.45 pm. They are a great way for older people who can’t come to our group sessions to exercise at home, enjoy lovely music & dances, and chat with like-minded people. If you're interested we'd love to hear from you.

We're delighted to be restarting our groups on Monday 17th May. Just now we must limit numbers so are not quite ready to welcome new members. But please get in touch if you are interested - dancingforwellbeing.org/cont… - and we'll invite you at the earliest possible opportunity.

I'm very excited to say we're planning to restart our Dancing for Well-Being groups in the middle of May. Our group leaders are gearing up and Margaret has roped in a volunteer to practice some seated dances with her. This is Pan and this face means he's really enjoying himself!

We invited our members to send us photos of themselves taking part in our Prop Dances film sessions - dancingforwellbeing.org/danc… - and this one from Kate and Esther really made us smile -