Dance Unlimited is gifting their old dance floor to the Tauranga City Council, as well as money to purchase a new one.
Dance Unlimited is a non-profit organisation that was set up in the mid-1980s to provide dance opportunities for all dance students and to bring dance to Tauranga. In 1989, it purchased a dance floor from funds raised at a ballet festival and has since managed the bookings for the dance floor and collected revenue from these hires.
Dance Unlimited president Susanne Hanger, TCC Venues and Events lead technician Ben Hambling, Dance Unlimited’s Prue Gooch and Dance Unlimited secretary Barrie Herring look at samples for the new dance floor at Baycourt.
In November 2009, the Dance Unlimited members agreed that the management of the bookings for the dance floor would be better handled by Tauranga City Council through the Venues and Events team at Baycourt. To ensure that the community continue to receive the benefit of the work that Dance Unlimited has done for the past 19 years, they gifted the ownership of the existing dance floor to the Tauranga City Council along with sufficient funds for the purchase a new ballet dance floor (approximately $11 000).
The purchase of a new dance floor will mean that the old dance floor will be available for hire at venues outside of Baycourt.