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Welcome to ‘The Centre’ aka Wye Valley Dance and Wellbeing [WVDW]! I’m Jules (Julie Hawkins), and I can’t wait to meet you!
The Centre is home to my businesses, KIH Products Ltd, Labeada® Dance and, the Labeada® Lounge, which has been created specifically to support the local community, whether via business networking, workshops, philanthropy, or human connection in other forms.
The Centre is the training HQ for Labeada® Dance, but I will run some limited classes for locals until a local instructor takes over Labeada® Dance in this area.
| Thank you for visiting my website, I hope that there is something here that will be beneficial to you. My focus is on work, enterprise, and wellbeing. I am a huge fan of authenticity and human connection, and believe that too many of us struggle within our own four walls, which is bad for our health in so many ways. For many years I worked in traditional roles, and use my transferable skills to help those around me. Those roles varied from publican, to videographer, to paralegal lawyer. I’ve worked for the police, patent attorneys, medical professionals, lawyers in civil litigation, estate agency & bookkeeping. I covered GDPR and marketing as part of my law degree, am a qualified massage therapist, and have won many awards over the years for marketing and business. This roller coaster was mainly thanks to my ‘careers adviser’ in school, who firmly steered me away from my plans to teach dance as a career; this threw me off track and left me lost for a few decades, but I found my way back, and created Labeada® Dance in 2024 to enable me, and women like me, to get back to doing what they love, around the ‘Fresh Start 50’ window (albeit the window in reality is 30 to 70!). The local area licence is available, but meanwhile, I’ll cover it best I can (limited hours) in the interim! I ran the SMBN (Single Mums Business Network) from 2019 to 2025, to support my peers facing barriers to work, homes and finance, and have enjoyed campaigning directly with Prime Ministers, Ministers & MP’s, and other key decision makers in the UK. I closed the SMBN after I published ‘Breaking out of Benefits Jail’ to Amazon, so that I could essentially still help my community from ‘beyond the grave’, but brought the rest forward, the things that I loved doing, the magazine creation, the events, and the networking. I bootstrapped my business throughout adversity, and had a horrific experience with the DWP when, for a very short period of time, I needed support as a single mum battling working around available childcare. I believe that anybody who has lived experience of struggling, or who has empathy for those struggling, will be keen to join me on Philanthropic Fridays, a business competition to award £2000 (ongoing) to those in the Wye Valley catchment who need a fresh start in business. I believe in the saying, ‘Give a man a fish, he eats for a day, teach a man to fish, he feeds his family for life’. Collectively we can help others generate their own sustainable income. Take a look at Philanthropic Fridays here. ‘The Centre’ brings the best tools and resources forward, to enable you to help yourself, or help others. Please do take a look at the ‘Events’ page, and join me where you can! Jules x |
Workshops for freelancing / flexible working
Making work work as a primary carer can be really difficult when you are juggling childcare v full-time work.
If you are wondering how to manage when the children return to school in September this workshop will help you.
Saturday Skool
10 am to 1 pm – for KS2 children to dance, enjoy arts, and have fun! Yes – I know it’s ‘School’ but we are talking old skool hip-hop and phonics version of school! It is good to have fun, and it is healthy to be creative. At WVDW we offer Saturday fun for your…
'The CENTRE' AKA Wye Valley Dance and Wellbeing [WVDW] 