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Ballroom and Latin is a wonderful but very costly sport, our society needs your help to make it as accessible as possible for our members to participate and compete. Your donations help us pay for our wonderful teachers Joel and Hannah, fund competition transport and fees, and of course help us to buy lots of amazing sparkly dresses!
York Ballroom and Latin society is the University of York’s most glamorous sports society! We run weekly classes in Ballroom and Latin dancing, taught by a professional teacher, and compete across the country against other university teams.
Our dance classes and practices are a really positive way of taking time away from university work, and other life stresses, and we are really keen to make sure all our members feel welcomed, respected, and included in all our activities.
This year our team has been busy competing almost every weekend! Many of our members have been very successful, and we have some national finalists in our midst after our biggest competition of the year- Blackpool.
The money we raised during Challenge Week 2024 played a huge role in our successes this year and we’d love to keep the momentum going and continue working towards bigger and better things.
Our ethos at YBLS is that dancing is for everyone. We keep our classes affordable without compromising on teaching quality, we subsidise competition costs as much as we can, and we have a stock of open dress for our dancers to use at competitions and performances, free of charge.
Your donation will give us the financial support to help maintain this ethos for our dancers, and make it easier for us to keep dancing affordable. YBLS is truly grateful for any donations you can make.
The money we raise during Challenge Week will go towards competition fees, lessons, and our wardrobe!
The majority of money that we raise will go towards keeping competition prices low for our members. Both entry fees and travel expenses are subsidised by the society. We would like to raise £2000 to put towards subsidisation of competition costs.
Our other priority is keeping lesson prices low. We are very fortunate to have regular coaching from our professional teacher Joel, as well as ex-student Hannah. Our goal for teaching prices is to raise £1000.
Last but certainly not least is our wardrobe. Following Challenge Week 2024, we were able to expand our wardrobe for this competition season however, we felt that our leads weren’t able to get the love they deserve so we would like to raise at least £500 this year to ensure that all members of the society are equally represented in our competition wardrobe.
Our overall goal for Challenge Week 2025 therefore is to raise £3500 so that all three of our financial priorities are covered. If we don’t quite reach this target, we believe that focusing on keeping lesson and competition prices down is the main goal.
Ballroom and Latin can be a particularly expensive sport, our mission as a society is to try to combat this and make dance as accessible as possible. We need your help to achieve this!
Our competitions take place across the country and are hosted in different locations each time, this makes travel expensive! As a society, we subsidise travel and competition fees which keeps prices down for our members, and allows more people to access the sport.
As well as the price of the competitions themselves, competing requires specific attire which is extremely expensive. As a society we have our own collection of dresses and tops which we lend out to members of our team: it is vital that we maintain the upkeep of these items, as well as continue to purchase new ones to keep up with our growing team. Our leads are currently very limited in the wardrobe department, it would be excellent to show our leads some love and get them looking dapper next year.
Outside of competing, we have a number of classes run by our teachers Joel and Hannah each week. These are attended by not just our competition team, but by lots of other members of the society too! With the money from Challenge Week, we can ensure that these lessons remain at low cost to our members- something which is incredibly important particularly as students.
All aspects of ballroom and latin present financial challenges, our job as a society is to take on those challenges so individual students don’t have to. It is the money we raise through Challenge Week, and the vital support from every single contributor that makes this possible.
Below are some of the challenges we will complete as part of the week:
We have various forms of social media. Give us a follow to keep up to date with our challenge week endeavours, and sneak a peek at our other activities…
Instagram @yblsoc https://www.instagram.com/yblsoc/?hl=en
Facebook York Ballroom and Latin Society https://www.facebook.com/YBLSoc/
TikTok yblsoc https://www.tiktok.com/@yblsoc
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Website https://www.ybls.co.uk/
We would love you to donate as much or as little as you are able and any donations are hugely appreciated. Your donation could also help us unlock fundraising challenges which will help us reach our goal even faster (you can see these on the challenges page).
If you are looking to support an individual athlete or challenge please put a message with your donation saying who!
Alternatively, if you are unable to donate then please do spread the word by signing up as a Challenge Week ambassador for our club, and sharing our social media posts to your own socials so as many people as possible can read about our efforts! Some of our challenges may also ask for social media interaction, so be sure to keep an eye out!