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Breaking News: England Region Wheelchair Dance Fun Day - Change of Venue & Open Invitation

Fun Day – Saturday 10th October 2009

For anyone interested in wheelchair dancing, please accept this as an invitation to the England Region Wheelchair Dance Fun Day being held on Saturday 10th October 2009 at Winterbourne Community Centre in Bristol.

Any contributions to the raffle will be gratefully received.

There will a prize for the best/funniest hat (one for adults and one for children).

If you would like any information regarding accommodation or other matters, please do not hesitate to contact me.  The local airport is Bristol International Airport and the local train station is Parkway.

Look forward to seeing you there!

Yours sincerely

Miss Julia Hall
Chairperson
Concorde Wheelchair Dancers

Invitation to England Regional Fun Day
Saturday 10th October 2009

@ WINTERBOURNE COMMUNITY CENTRE
Watleys End Road
Winterbourne
Bristol
BS36 1QG

10.30 am – 4.00 pm

Food and Drink will be available to buy
Please bring any old favourite or new dances along to either demonstrate or teach

The Theme is Hats and there will be a prize for the best/funniest hat

There will also be a raffle

If you'd like to come to the Fun Day, please complete this form or email us to let us know!

: Meet the Concordes :

The Concorde Wheelchair Dancers are a Bristol dance team with members representing all ages and many disabilities.

If you can propel your own wheelchair - whether manual or electric - and share our passion for team-based dancing, regardless of your disability, age or experience, we'd like to hear from you. Check out the information on this website, and if you're interested, send us an email or give our chairperson, Julia, a call on 01173 009615.

Apart from practicing every Monday evening (except Bank Holidays) from 7.30 - 9.30pm at Page Hall, Staple Hill, Bristol, we enjoy national festivals and competitions, fund-raisers and fun days, and perform at demonstration events across the region and beyond.

This website is also home to the brand new UK Wheelchair Dance Directory, an in-development resource intended for wheelchair dancers to find or start up teams in their local area.

Make www.wheelchairdance.co.uk your home for the latest information about the Concordes, and wheelchair dancing across the UK!

: Update 24 May 2009 :
Yesterday, the Concordes took part in the MS Society Fun Day held at the National Star Centre in Cheltenham. A short report on the day can be found on our Events page, and photos from the event are now in our gallery. Soon, hopefully, we'll have some videos of full dances to view on a new YouTube page dedicated to wheelchairdance.co.uk. Keep an eye on our twitter page for the latest news as it happens.

: Update 8 April 2009 :
Fun fact: tomorrow is the 40th Anniversary of the Concorde aircraft that (in part) gave us our name! Keep an eye out on our twitter feed - even easier now you can find the most recent entries on the top right of this page - for other news about the relationship between Concorde and the Concorde dancers!

: Update 13 Mar 2009 :
A couple of new events have been added to our calendar - on 23rd May 2009 you'll be able to see the Concordes in action with a demonstration at the Gloucester MS Fun Day, held at The Star Centre in Cheltenham from 1.30pm. We also have a demo lined up for Arthritis Care at Bishop Sutton, scheduled for Saturday 19th of September (times to be confirmed). Keep your eyes peeled on our twitter page for further updates!

: Update 24 Feb 2009 :
Added a "ticker" to the top of this page, with the facility to show future latest updates as scrolling news messages.

: Update 24 Feb 2009 :
The Concordes would like to thank Brian Bees, of the Fishponds Family Practice in Bristol, for kick-starting a donation of £138.42 for our charity. Many, many thanks! We hope to set up a page on this website in the future to act as a record of thank-yous to the many other grants and donations that we depend on as a small charity.

: Update 22 Feb 2009 :
A new-look wheelchairdance.co.uk update launched - even more streamlined than before!

• Revised and updated UK Wheelchair Dance Directory - now on a Google Map, so it's easier to see which teams and individual dancers are near you
• Updates to our photo gallery, including pictures of the 2008 National Festivals in Blackpool
• A return to Google Calendar for our Diary and Events

We hope you enjoy our new style (as you can see above, we couldn't decide on a colour for our new logo, so we've used the whole rainbow) - comments, as usual, are welcome to rob@wheelchairdance.co.uk.

Happy dancing!

Rob Chilcott
wheelchairdance.co.uk webmaster

registered charity number 287029

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