Eileen Jeffery

Eileen started dancing at a young age taking all her medals at Sid Carrs School of Dance.

Eileen met Neil and his wife Sue at Middleton Civic 12 years ago. With her friendly and welcoming personality she soon became part of the team and is now an essential member, helping Neil with dance classes and organising his diary of events.

Barry & Sheila Foster

Sheila and I started dancing in 1994 hoping to learn ballroom and sequence at a local dance school. After a while we decided we would like to compete in open Modern and Old-time Sequence.

So we changed from class lessons to weekly private lessons with teacher's specialising in this mode of dancing.
We won our first competition at the Easter Sequence Dance Festival at the Floral Hall in Southport in 1999. We carried on Competing in the Sequence but at the same time, deciding to move also into Modern Ballroom competitions this meant having lessons from some of the top Teachers/Coaches in Modern Ballroom.

Our highest accolade was being marked into second place in the Commonwealth Games Dance Competition held at the Empress Ballroom Winter Gardens Blackpool.

The next challenge for us was in deciding to take our Associate Teachers Ballroom Exam, and after studying for over 6 months Sheila and I qualified in July 2010.

Our aim in attaining this qualification is to make learning to dance for beginners as easy and joyful as possible for everyone.