Bookings have now opened for our very popular Hunky Dory Easter Holiday Club!

Held at The Maybury Centre in Woking, the 4 day holiday club will be facilitated by our highly experienced team and provide participants with a full day of dance, arts & crafts, fun and a hot meal every day too!

The Easter Club is suitable for children in Primary School Year 4 to Year 6. The club will provide a fun and safe environment for all abilities and whilst there will be dance each day, the focus is on us providing a fun, active and creative week for all participants!

At Dance Woking we believe in creating active and engaging opportunities to inspire the younger generation. Our Hunky Dory Easter Club aims to promote health and well being whilst also allowing children to find new ways of expressing themselves. Our highly qualified and experienced team will lead a range of creative activities including daily dance sessions and arts and crafts activities.

The Easter Holiday club programme is shaping up to be full of amazing activities and bookings are now open! If you would like more information on the holiday club please click the button below or contact us

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Club4 is Surrey County Council’s (SCC’s) response to the government’s Holiday Activities and Food initiative, designed to provide healthy meals, physical activity and enrichment opportunities to children and young people in receipt of free school meals during longer holidays. Coordinated by Active Surrey for SCC, free places will be provided during the Easter, summer and Christmas 2022 holidays.  

Dance Woking are thrilled to announce we have been successful in our bid to provide holiday provision during Easter for young residents of Woking.

The funding, provided by Club4, will enable us to host our popular Hunky Dory Holiday Club this Easter. Held at The Maybury Centre in Woking, the 4 day provision will be facilitated by our highly experienced team and provide participants with a full day of dance, arts & crafts, fun and a hot meal every day too!

The Easter Club is suitable for children in Primary School Year 4 to Year 6. The club will provide a fun and safe environment for all abilities and whilst there will be dance each day, the focus is on us providing a fun, active and creative week for all participants!

At Dance Woking we believe in creating active and engaging opportunities to inspire the younger generation. Our Hunky Dory Easter Club aims to promote health and well being whilst also allowing children to find new ways of expressing themselves. Our highly qualified and experienced team will lead a range of creative activities including daily dance sessions and arts and crafts activities.

The Easter Holiday club programme is shaping up to be full of amazing activities and bookings will open on Friday 25th February! If you would like more information on the holiday club please click the button below

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Club4 is Surrey County Council’s (SCC’s) response to the government’s Holiday Activities and Food initiative, designed to provide healthy meals, physical activity and enrichment opportunities to children and young people in receipt of free school meals during longer holidays. Coordinated by Active Surrey for SCC, free places will be provided during the Easter, summer and Christmas 2022 holidays.  

With some fantastic events lined up in the coming months, we are looking to recruit some dedicated and enthusiastic volunteers to join our team.

There are lots of varied reasons why individuals choose to volunteer. For many it not only provides them with an opportunity to give back to the community but allows them to develop new skills and knowledge in an area that interests them. Volunteering with Dance Woking will not only provide individuals with a challenge but the experience will be extremely rewarding.

So if you are looking to feel valued and part of a team, develop confidence and self esteem, gain and enhance skills, knowledge and experience, meet new people and develop friendships then get in touch with us today!

More information can be found on our opportunities page. To apply email Ellie Dowling, Engagements Manager or via our contact us page

We can’t wait to welcome you to the team!

We are thrilled to welcome new directory members LDA & Dance Shack to our Dance Surrey Directory.

Both Dance Shack and LDA have a wealth of experience and knowledge in their dance field and are thrilled to be included on the Dance Woking Dance Surrey Directory.

LDA and Dance Shack will be performing at future platforms and we can’t wait to see what they have planned! Check out their profiles below to see what they have to offer!

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Dance Surrey Directory is a refreshed platform-listing site designed to help the dance community increase their reach and for those seeking dance classes to find out what’s on offer in Surrey. With new search options, this is a comprehensive tool which we hope will help promote dance classes and encourage new sign-ups.

What is great about the directory is that users can be assured in the knowledge that the dance schools and companies listed meet the Dance Woking stamp of approval. Schools are DBS checked, fully insured and qualified and hold a level of safeguarding in line with Dance Woking’s ethos.

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Are you a local dance school and would like to benefit from being showcased on our platform? You can find out more about the listing service and member benefits here

This week, we’re supporting Place2Be’s Children’s Mental Health Week – raising awareness of the importance of children and young people’s mental health.

We are incredibly proud of the work we do supporting young people’s mental health. From our extremely popular designated health and well being Hunky Dory Dancer Programme all the way to our Mind and Movement programmes that are run within school settings, the classes allow the participants to gain tips and tricks to help focus their health and well being through movement, communication, listening skills & emotional awareness all whilst having fun!

The worry balloon release task (lead here by Tom and Katie) is a popular activity – the image of the balloon deflating really helps to see those worries as manageable issues.

As part of our Inspired Learning programme, our outreach team have been delivering classes in our partner schools this week that have focused on the participants “growing together”. With the balloon release activity, well being wheels & even a fantastic activity called “Reach for the Stars” being actioned within class. This is all part of our ambition to create a fun and enjoyable dance environment that also strives to relieve stress and anxiety for the participants.

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We are proud to be supporting Place2be’s Children’s Mental Health Week to help to shine a light on the importance of children and young people’s mental health. Now more than ever, no child or young person should have to face mental health problems on their own and we will continue to take steps to make this positive change.

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Children’s Mental Health Week is run by children’s mental health charity Place2Be to focus on the importance of looking after our emotional wellbeing from an early age. This year’s theme is “GROWING TOGETHER”
Human beings change and grow – we do it all the time and in many different ways. Physical growth is easy to see as we grow from babies to children, teenagers to adults. We grow intellectually as we gain new knowledge, skills, and understanding at school, and beyond.
For Children’s Mental Health Week 2022, Place2Be is encouraging children (and adults) to consider how they have grown, what they need to help them grow, and how they can help others to grow too.

We spent Tuesday morning in the Surrey Arts studio with 2 of our freelance dance artist planning and rehearsing for the travelling tea dance to return this spring.

Expanding on our very successful Christmas Travelling Tea dance, Katie & Michaela will be leading interactive dance sessions in 6 assisted living settings around Woking providing a chance for residents to watch, interact and move.

Our travelling tea dance aims to support the 5 ways to wellbeing by:

• By connecting with others
• Being active
• Take notice through the themes and dance styles
• Learning through new dance steps and styles
• Give – through shared memories support

We have a wonderful spring programme planned and we can’t wait to share it with the residents of the locations we will be visiting – more information will be revealed soon!

This project has funded in collaboration with Community Foundation for Surrey as part of our ambition to improve dance provision for the over 65’s.