A few points of business this week, particular attention needed on the Belgium item please as I would like to be able to get back to them asap. Latest info for Faversham and Bromyard will be in separate emails. Don't forget that Monday 27th is a Bank Holiday so there won't be a practice... next one will be 3rd Sept

1. Sidmouth

2. Crawl

3. Belgium - urgent response required

1. Sidmouth - thanks once again for everyone's efforts, there have been many nice things being said/written/emailed, so well done everyone for that. We've had some general thanks from Charlotte and Malcolm, the dance team organisers, including congrats for raising the most money for the festival - so awesome job on that as well! ☺

Morris party organisers also sent thanks and said that we pitched it perfectly (as did Chilts and Camden, it wasn't just to us :) )

We've been sent a link to a feedback form for the festival which anyone can fill it out, so if you feel like providing some feedback to the festival, please do - you can also be entered to win a pair of free tickets to next year's festival should you wish. Link to feedback form below:

If you had a partner ticket, could you please provide me with £10 (or £5 if just the weekend) - I'll accept both cash and bank transfers (details at end of email). I think there are some general finance discussions happening as well, so hopefully we can give everyone some money towards their train tickets - watch this space...

2. Crawl next Thursday (30th August) - more info coming soon... (like next week)

3. Belgium - the invite that has been half way here for several months! We finally managed some successful communication... so they have invited us for the weekend of 16-18 November (2018). I think the weekend would look something like arriving either Fri evening or possibly Sat AM (would likely be a v early train though to make it worthwhile!). The main reason for going is to dance at their folk dance evening on Saturday night. The rest is all fairly flexible at the mo, but could be shown around Grimbergen on Saturday, dance in evening, then on Sunday go to Brussels or elsewhere and potentially dance. I think this can be guided by us to a certain degree. Probably come home Sunday evening (though am sure if anyone wants to stay til Monday that would be fine). Accommodation would be with host families.

In terms of getting there, there are eurostar tickets available - the £29 ones on the way out are only available in the middle of the day on Friday or on the 0618 saturday morning, otherwise it will be more like £39 or £49 out. Coming back trains would most likely cost £49. Flying looks to be around £97 return. We can work this out exactly if we have a team to go, though feel free to do a quick investigation if it helps you decide one way or another.

On which note, please fill in the sign-up sheet for this asap, so we can let them know one way or another. I think they are quite keen for us to go, but if we can't then I think they would be wanting to invite another team. If possible please try to be a yes or no rather than hovering in the maybe category.

It's all on the sign-up sheet - so go, go, go! (also please take a quick look at the September crawl while you're there...☺)

Have a truly exciting week!

Thanks,

Hannah

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