[Tower Ravens] Business

Hi everyone, Incredible amount raised on the crawl last week - so well done everyone! And thanks for organising Ffion. (Completely forgotten the amount, but it was more than £200!) Not too much from me this week (I hope...) We should now be all sorted for Katherine's Wedding, we'll start sorting out payments etc for this in the next couple of weeks and try to make sure there is a gap between this and DERT (as that's a long one that's at the bottom... but please read it!) 1. New on the sign-up sheet - We have been invited by the Belles of London to a Women's Day of Dance on 1st October along with Esps, Dacre and Camden. The iea is to do a walking/public transport tour of London visiting some of the favourite places of Maud Karpeles. They are hoping to raise money for Women's Aid, but this is yet to be confirmed with the relevant authorities. Please fill in the sign-up sheet with your availability. Other thing it would be useful to get some replies for are the possible dates for going to dance for Laura W's Old Folks - 18th Feb or 18th March - though I don't think 18th Feb is actually viable. 2. DERT - So, the next thing we need trains for now is DERT, I think I have information as to what time of day (almost) everyone would prefer to travel up on the Friday - those of you that haven't could you add yourselves on/email me to let me know. I would like to try and group people together as soon as possible so we can get our tickets sorted. Trains are roughly hourly throughout the day. Cost-wise it looks to be ~£65 with a railcard. Without a railcard it looks to be about £81 return. That group save appears to be a special offer on the virgin trains website to Oxenholme and then a pair of singles, so may be worth taking advantage of asap - otherwise it looks to be about £99 for the straightforward return without railcard. I will investigate what else we can do to make it cheaper (possibly a thing via Manchester?), but I can't promise anything. We are travelling a long way though, so given that is £30-40 each way to the Lake District it's not that bad! There will be some subsidisation, so don't let the costs put anyone off. If you are (or could be) travelling with someone you might regularly travel with, it may be worth considering getting a 2-together railcard. I'm enjoying a significant reduction in the "No-replies" on the sigh-up sheet - so thanks very much for that! :) Have a lovely week. Hannah :)