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TEA DANCE FOR INDIA...
One of our trustees,
James Playfair, writes:
Having returned from a trip
to RTU about a year ago I wanted to come up with some sort
of fund-raising event which might catch people’s
imagination. Preferably, I hoped, one that would not
involve any form of strenuous activity or sponsorship!
As it happens, Mrs Playfair
and I have been going to ballroom dancing classes since
Natasha Kaplinsky won the big prize all
 those
years ago. We are still light-years away from dancing as
she did but maybe there was an idea there. It would look
good on the poster: Tea Dance for India……..
So, on October 3rd, in St
Michaels Church, Broad Street, Bath we had tea and cakes,
a raffle (with prizes given by local
businesses), live music and amazingly – lots of ballroom
dancing!
St Michaels has close
connections to Bath Abbey. As a city centre church it has
been modernized both in appearance and in its
ministry and so can be rented for events such as concerts,
book launches and on this occasion - dancing. If all the
pews are taken out you are left with a large space as big
as a ... ballroom. Having used as many connections
as we could (all our friends, our work, the Abbey
community, book club even!) and made a pain of ourselves
we were at one stage concerned that we might have sold too
many tickets.
 Some
people we know, we now find, can dance beautifully. Most
though just came along for the sake of RTU and to have
some fun. And they all joined in (really they did)
even though most of them had never even tried anything
like it before!
No problem. Our dance
teacher had very kindly agreed to give her time and gave
lessons
so that everybody could
have a go!
So, with 150 of us trying the basic steps to the
cha-cha-cha... we
really did have dancing in the aisles – sadly, maybe, not
a sight you often
see in church!
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He spoke to RTU
supporters in Chester, Coatbridge (near Glasgow),
Worthing, Market Bosworth (near Leicester) and Colchester,
where he also spent a day at 2 schools. 
London
and also met with crossbench peer David Alton (former
Liberal MP and Chief Whip) during a visit to the House of
Lords arranged by one of our trustees. 
