Ozanam Come Dancing 2020 Raised a staggering €67,000 - Resulting in €60,000 towards our youth programmes in the centre Ozanam Come Dancing is the big annual fundraising event held by SVP’s Ozanam House Resource Centre, Dublin 1. Ozanam House provides childcare, youth programmes, adult education classes and community programmes for the elderly to over 500 members of our community. The event raises funds for the centre’s youth programmes that operate throughout the year, allowing us to offer much needed supports to 300 children and young people from Dublin’s north inner city. The show was held in Liberty Hall on Friday 6th March last. A sell-out crowd of 420 people filled the venue and were entertained by 11 amazing volunteer couples who danced Salsa, the Charleston, Swing, the Jive, Disco, Foxtrot, Argentine Tango and the Paso Doble. The host for the night was TV presenter, broadcaster & fashion designer, Brendan Courtney who returned for his sixth year as our host. Brendan was joined this year by our wonderful celebrity Judges, comedienne, singer and actress Katherine Lynch; actor and playwright, Thommas Kane Byrne and professional dancer and dance adjudicator, Brian Keogh. All shared their wisdom, insight and humour throughout the evening. The
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incredibly talented children and young adults from ‘C & N Dance Academy’ in Ballymun provided the entertainment on the night. Our volunteer dancers came on board from within the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul, the local community and many of our corporate and community partners including CDETB, Danceworld, AIB and Eversheds-Sutherland. A huge thank you goes to all of our 11 Couples for their incredible commitment, hard work, fundraising efforts and support. They put on a truly incredible show on the night and amazed everyone with what can be achieved after only 9 weeks of lessons. They really were the stars of the show! Thanks also to our teacher and choreographer June Carr whose guidance and support contributes so much to the success of the event. Our congratulations go to Holy and Tiarnan who danced the ‘Argentine Tango’ and are our Ozanam Come Dancing Winners 2020! A big thank you must go to our dancers’ sponsors. Thanks also to the many companies who donated goods and services to the event, and the prizes for our mega raffle prize draw. A total of 58 companies and individuals supported the event in some capacity. A very special thanks also to all of our many incredible volunteer helpers who worked so hard and gave so much of
