21st August 2026 Newsletter

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Hi all,

Hope you're all enjoying the summer and have appreciated the rain we've had over the last couple of days!

Website Updates

Whilst I've been having some lovely time off ☀️💕, there has also been a little bit of behind-the-scenes work going on! 💻✨

I've made a few updates to make booking your classes easier, quicker and more straightforward. 🙌

👤 You can now create your own member account, which means you can log in and view and manage your bookings all in one place.

🛒 You can now add multiple classes to your shopping cart and book them all at once, rather than having to complete each booking separately. There’s also now a handy Cart button on the website, so you can access your cart at any time.

📅 My Bookings in your account lets you keep track of your upcoming classes and manage your bookings.

💷 The website will also calculate how much you need to pay, so no more working it out yourself! (Zumba ladies who get the Thursday night Pilates discount — use PILATES in the Promo Code box and it will deduct your £1 discount for you too! 😉)

❌ You can now cancel your own bookings, which will hopefully save me a little bit of admin time! 🙌

I hope these changes make booking your classes quicker and easier! 💕

These updates are mainly relevant to people booking Pay-As-You-Go classes and the On-Demand Studio, but you can now book all your classes in one go rather than having to make multiple transactions. 🎉

Payment is still via BACS though, because I'm still too cheap to pay a third party to take payments for me! 😂💷

⚠️ One important thing to note: your account will only show classes you book after you've created your account, so unfortunately any existing bookings won't appear in there.

💃 Block booking people (Pilates, Barre & Line Dancing) — these changes won't really affect you, so please continue to let me know when you're going to be away so I can organise as many class swaps as possible for everyone. ❤️

Free Line Dancing - I'd appreciate your support!

I’ll be running a FREE Line Dancing session at this year’s Alveston Community Village Fair at 2pm! 🤠💃

I’d absolutely love to see lots of you there to join in and support me. It’s always so much more fun when there’s a great crowd getting involved — and I promise, once a few people get up and start dancing, everyone else will soon want to join in too! 😄

So come along, bring your friends and family, and let’s get Alveston dancing! 💃🕺🎶

Funkalicious Event

The Armstrong Hall are hosting a 'Funkalicious' Event and they've asked me to let you guys know about it as it might be of interest to those of you who come to my dance-based classes! It's a fundraiser to help support this amazing venue that has taken so much time and energy to get back up and running, so do support it if you can!

Join us for a night of feel good soul, funk and disco music as we raise the roof on The Armstrong. DJ's Rhuester and DJ Smudge will be providing the tunes!

Sunday, 30 Aug 2026, 7:30pm - midnight

£10 in advance online

£12.50 on the door (online preferred)

Drinks available all night on the bar. The event is a dance party - so just come and enjoy dancing the night away in your own way!

Grab your ticket here https://www.thearmstrong.co.uk/events/funkalicious-mai11

Pilates and Barre Spaces

Most Pilates and Barre classes are now sold out for Sept, but I have 1 space available in the 8:05pm Thursday night Pilates class. 8 weeks for £56, with pre-recorded workouts to do between sessions too!

Booking here https://www.samhutchinsonfitness.com/book-online

I MAY also have one space available for Barre on Tuesdays at 7:05pm. I'm not sure this is avaiable right now, so get in touch to get first dibs if it does become available!

Holidays

Classes are still closed for another week and then there are no sessions on the Monday bank holiday, but I'll see you all back to normal from Sept 1st!