McGahan Lees Irish Dance Academy

McGL are proud to announce they are using easyfundraising to raise funds for our talented young dancers to travel to international competitions.
You can help raise funds for McGL simply by doing you online shopping via easyfundraising.org.uk.
This doesn’t cost you a penny more, but as you make purchases the online retailers make a donation to the dance school.
All you do is register and start shopping! There are over 3000 shops and sites on board, ready to make a donation including Amazon, John Lewis, Sainsbury’s and TheTrainline.

For example, simply by doing your weekly online Sainsbury’s shop via Easyfundraising could raise up to £2.50 each time!

There are no catches or hidden charges and McGL dancers are very grateful for your donations.

How to:

• Every time you shop online, go to https://www.easyfundraising.org.uk/causes/mcgahanleesirishdancingacademy/ first to find the site you want and start shopping.
• You can install a simple plug-in for your browser which will remind you to go through easyfundraising when you start shopping on a partner site.
• There is even a smartphone app!
• After you have checked out, the retailer will make a donation to McGL for no extra cost whatsoever.

Thank you for your support!

This year’s World Championships, or Oireachtas Rince na Cruinne was held once again in the prestigious Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. As always, the competitions were large and extremely tough, with some age groups comprising as many as 150 qualified competitors.

It’s a week of fierce competition, but also of celebration, as dancers, families and teachers are reacquainted with friends from across the globe.

This year, we were lucky enough to gain five world medals, including the U16 Boys World Champion, Liam Costello.

McGL dancers also achieved many personal bests, whether that be dancing on the World stage for the first time, recalling, or coming in the top 20 or 30 competitors. Training for a World Championships is an enormous commitment, and we are so proud of all our qualifiers that undertook this journey in 2018.