Grand Square Incorporated (www.grandsquareinc.com) which is a Chartered US Foundation, recently sponsored a Caller School in Cambridgeshire, paying all tuition fees plus full board (five nights) for up to 40 students. In fact, two had to drop out.

The aim is to follow this up with annual Caller Schools, same length, same format, for 20 students at a time. However, I think it's going to be hard to attract women.

The courses will be open to anyone who is thoroughly au fait with the Mainstream syllabus. No calling experience required. Therefore, I was hoping that it might be possible to draw this to the attention of any women already working as MCs who had a basic knowledge of square dancing and would be happy to do the Mainstream course starting this autumn.

I'd also like to be able to organise some events to allow callers to retrain or to learn to teach wheelchair square dancing (never really tried in the UK so far).

I'd be pleased to hear from anyone with ideas! I think we can secure funding so that students don't have to pay.