Sunshine house Community Centre - Grand Opening - video Dailymotion

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Shaun Wane and Ron Conway were on hand to open the new Pianos Pies and Pirouettes

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00:00 [MUSIC PLAYING]

00:03 [INAUDIBLE]

00:31 Come on, ladies.

00:33 Take it away.

00:35 Cut the ribbon.

00:36 Cut the ribbon.

00:37 Yay.

00:38 [APPLAUSE]

00:41 Mr. Wayne.

00:42 [INAUDIBLE]

00:47 So as you can see, we're quite busy already.

00:49 It is quite early in the morning.

00:51 [INAUDIBLE]

00:51 We've got quite a few people have come in.

00:53 Obviously, the wonderful Mr. Sean Wayne is here.

00:56 But I'm just going to show around and explain

00:58 what's going on, Sean.

01:00 So this will be our main studio.

01:02 Obviously, we've got the mirrors that we've put in.

01:04 We've put a whole new floor in.

01:06 We've bought the piano, clearly.

01:08 We have another keyboard that we're

01:09 going to use while this is being used for dance, which

01:12 we'll use in the other room, which I'll show you now.

01:16 This is all the gang from Sunshine House who support us.

01:19 All good.

01:20 Liz, with the blue hat on, is extremely eager to meet you.

01:24 Liz, I've told him you've got a thing about him.

01:27 Come on.

01:27 I know you anyway.

01:29 I do, because I've always followed you.

01:31 Liz is the manageress of the whole center.

01:33 Am I good?

01:34 Yeah.

01:34 No, so she runs all of that.

01:35 You're building.

01:36 Yes.

01:37 Yeah, so--

01:38 So you do everything?

01:39 I do, actually.

01:40 She does actually do everything.

01:42 If I take you over here and show you

01:43 what they're doing next door, basically what they've done

01:46 is knock it all into one.

01:48 And this is going to be a cafe bistro.

01:51 So not only will be the only dance school

01:53 with a grand piano in it, we'll also

01:55 be the only one where parents can sit and have

01:57 a cup of coffee and a cake while the kids are dancing.

02:00 So that's the whole--

02:01 Yeah, plus everything from the community over there

02:03 is going to come over here.

02:05 So it'll all be under one roof.

02:07 So over there will be more like a training hub.

02:09 All right.

02:10 The main point of us getting together

02:12 is this site does so much for people with no money,

02:15 people with alcohol addiction.

02:17 And what we want is to bring them through the door

02:19 with the kids, really, so they feel comfortable asking

02:22 for help and everything else.

02:24 That's the way we're doing it.

02:26 The lessons are only 1 pound 50 for the first 12 months,

02:28 no matter what they do.

02:30 Piano lessons are free for three months

02:32 because Park Pianos are sponsoring us for that.

02:35 For 30 kids.

02:36 First 30 people to sign up are getting free for three months.

02:39 So the kitchen's going to be in there.

02:41 It'll all be super duper.

02:42 That's the built kitchen.

02:44 Yeah.

02:45 Who's done all this for you?

02:47 Well, the flooring next door was done by Ashcroft Flooring.

02:53 So our builders are NCA builders.

02:56 So we've had great savings and lots of money

02:59 from all our customers and it's been very profitable.

03:02 We spent 45 grand next door.

03:04 We borrowed the money from GMCVO, which is a loan company,

03:08 to actually do it.

03:10 We do get funding for about two, but there was no way

03:13 the funding would have allowed us to do this.

03:15 So we've had to write a business plan,

03:17 go out to the open market and borrow the money.

03:19 So Donna and I, if this doesn't work,

03:21 we'll bang on the door asking for a few quid.

03:23 [LAUGHTER]

03:25 Yeah, so, I mean, we're nearly there.

03:28 It might not look like it, but we are nearly there.

03:30 No, I can see that.

03:32 It's a great space, though, isn't it?

03:34 It's a fantastic space.

03:35 It really is.

03:36 The other thing we've got, we've just put a bid in

03:38 for 20,000 quid for awards for all national lottery.

03:43 Because one of the things we're in at the moment

03:45 is relationship with railway coaches.

03:47 So what we're going to do is a bus is going to go around

03:50 Wigan every fortnight, picking up any one of the

03:55 90,000 or so people who live here, to bring them here

03:59 for a ballroom dance and a high tea dance,

04:01 and then take them home afterwards.

04:04 So it's that social thing, how dance, well, you know,

04:08 with warriors, it's a social thing.

04:10 It's not just a...

04:11 I thought Ligeti could have been one of the kids

04:13 with no money.

04:14 I know, I know.

04:15 And also Magic Dog has danced.

04:17 At Tina's, I know, well, I used to play piano at Tina's.

04:20 I know all about that.

04:21 Do you want to hold his hand while you have a separate pair of scissors?

04:24 (laughing)

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