BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Croi Heart & Stroke Charity - ECPv6.15.20//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://croi.ie X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Croi Heart & Stroke Charity REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:UTC BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:UTC DTSTART:20220101T000000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251122T200000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20251122T233000 DTSTAMP:20260517T131642 CREATED:20240315T150505Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251010T134949Z UID:10000082-1763841600-1763854200@croi.ie SUMMARY:Strictly For Croí 2025 DESCRIPTION:Tickets for Sale!\n Please email mike@croi.ie if interested\n \n After a fantastic sell-out event in 2023\, Croí the Heart & Stroke Charity is delighted to bring back our “Strictly for Croí Fundraiser” to The Clayton Hotel on Saturday\, November 22nd\, 2025.  Our contestants will take part in an intensive eight-week training programme\, at the gym in Croí Heart & Stroke Centre\, Newcastle\, Galway under the guidance of a professional dance instructor. Mark the date in your diary\, and join us for what will be a very special event… “𝐆𝐞𝐭 𝐃𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐠”!  \nTo buy a ticket for this special production and support Croí’s fight against heart disease and stroke\, please email mike@croi.ie \n  \nHighlights from 2023 event\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \nWe hope that in seeing our contestants progress in their dancing journey\, that this will inspire our community to consider taking up a new activity like dancing. Making simple lifestyle changes like this can assist recovery and can prevent up to 80% of cardiovascular diseases. URL:https://croi.ie/event/strictly-for-croi-2025/ LOCATION:Galway Bay Hotel\, Salthill Rd Lower\, Upper Salthill\, Galway\, H91 W295\, Ireland CATEGORIES:Fundraising ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://croi.ie/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Strictly-for-Croi-Logo-Feature-Image.png ORGANIZER;CN="Cro%C3%AD":MAILTO:info@croi.ie END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20231104T200000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20231104T233000 DTSTAMP:20260517T131642 CREATED:20230428T133536Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231026T101203Z UID:10000057-1699128000-1699140600@croi.ie SUMMARY:Strictly For Croí DESCRIPTION:TICKET SALE – SOLD OUT! \nThank you to everyone who bought a ticket for the upcoming Strictly for Croí event\, with all proceeds going towards the fight against Heart disease and Stroke. \nThe inaugural Strictly for Croí event will take place on Saturday\, November 4th\, at The Galway Bay Hotel. Twenty-two dancers\, who have undergone a 10-week training program\, will take to the stage and put on a fantastic show. \nOur amazing dancers will soon be revealed 😍\, with all of them performing superbly in rehearsals over the past few weeks with Laura Geary Dance 🕺💃. \nTickets for the event are €30 and will include a Gin/Prosecco and Canapé reception from 6:30 pm before the show kicks off at 7:30 pm. \nThe show will conclude around midnight\, at which point DJ Macca will keep the party going until 2:00 am. So\, make sure to bring your dancing shoes too! \n \n Tickets – SOLD OUT\n \n\n \n Event Sponsor\nIntroducing the Strictly for Croí Contestants…\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Support Contestant Fundraisers\n \nCroí the Heart & Stroke Charity is delighted to bring our first “Strictly for Croí Fundraiser” to the Galway Bay Hotel on Saturday\, November 4th\, 2023.  \n22 contestants have signed up to learn new dance routines over an eight-week period\, before they take to the stage and compete in front of you\, our supporters on Saturday\, 4th November.   \nOur contestants will take part in an intensive eight-week training programme\, at the fitness studio in Croí Heart & Stroke Centre\, Newcastle\, Galway under the guidance of a professional dance instructor. We hope that in seeing our contestants progress in their dancing journey\, that this will inspire our community to consider taking up a new activity like dancing. Making simple lifestyle changes like this can assist recovery and can prevent up to 80% of cardiovascular diseases.  \nThere will be 11 couples taking part and they will dance competitively with the overall winners being determined based on 3 main components. Each of these components will be weighted equally and are as follows:  \n1:    Funds raised per couple   \n2:    Scores given by judges   \n3:    Most audience votes on the night (€1= 1 vote)  \nSo mark the date in your diary\, and join us for what will be a very special event… “Get Dancing”!  \n \n \n Support Contestant Fundraisers\n \nThank you for your Support!\nOur work is funded from the proceeds of fundraising events\, like Strictly for Croí and we thank everyone for volunteering their time to take part in what will be a very special production. Your support will mean that we can continue to provide the essential supports to communities such as:  \nDeveloping and delivering free educational\, preventative\, and healthy lifestyle programmes to individuals\, families\, and communities.   \nCroí Connects our free nurse telephone helpline\, provides support for those living with\, or affected by heart disease and stroke and connects people with our Cardiac Nurse Specialist\, from 9am – 5.30pm each weekday. Our Croí Connects team also host online weekly health chat to provide information and support to people from the comfort of their own home.  \nCroí provides accredited education and training for healthcare professionals. Delivering CPR and defibrillation training to the public as well as Cardiac Life Support training for healthcare professionals.  \nThe Croí Courtyard Apartments\, located at Croí Heart and Stroke Centre\, which provide home from home patient and carer support at times of Heart and Stroke emergency for those receiving heart or stroke care at Galway University Hospital.  \nStrictly for Croí Launch Night \n The Strictly for Croí launch celebration took place at The Skeff Late Bar & Kitchen. Our amazing cast and the talented choreographer Laura Geary DANCE were joined by Deputy Mayor Cllr. Donal Lyons and Patrick Guinnane to officially launch our event and partnership with The Skeff\, our sponsor.  URL:https://croi.ie/event/strictly-for-croi/ LOCATION:Galway Bay Hotel\, Salthill Rd Lower\, Upper Salthill\, Galway\, H91 W295\, Ireland CATEGORIES:Fundraising ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://croi.ie/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Strictly-for-Croi-Logo-Feature-Image-1.png ORGANIZER;CN="Cro%C3%AD":MAILTO:info@croi.ie END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR