Help Us Open Country Hustle Collective 🤠

This is the Country Hustle donantion page.

The goal is to raise £10K & get the doors open!

Do you believe in fate? Because I do.

At the end of 2025, I was working as an Online Fitness Coach from home.  Whilst I love my job, I found myself feeling lonely, just being sat behind a laptop at home all day. I really started craving a community. It didn't help that my house was now empty, with my youngest now at univeristy, and my husband working away every other week. It was just me and Astro (my dog) kicking around at home.

I knew I had to do something, maybe get a hobby? I even toyed with the idea of bringing back my old bootcamps I used to run. But if I am honest that wasn't lighting me up. 

Then one cold night in February 2026, I attended my friend, Sain, line dancing class in the New Forest. For no other reason than to support my her and have a bit of a laugh with my other friend, Jodie, who came with me. 

That one line dancing class changed everything!

 I remember leaving that class on such a high. I spoke to my friend who ran the class to bring her line daNcing down to Basingstoke, but she said it was too far away. That's when Sian said to me "why don't you do it?"

And that is really how Country Hustle came to be. 

Now to be clear, I had never line danced before that one class. But I am a trained dancer, so I pick things up pretty quickly. 

The next step was to see if anyone would be interested. So, I put a post on Facebook asking, if I was to start a line dance class, would anyone be interested? I had no idea that the response was going to be so big!

Once I saw the demand, I quickly got classes set up for every Thursday night. Country Hustle had its first class mid April 2026.

Fast forward to today, and Country Hustle has become this incredible community for men and women of all ages and all abilities.

I had no idea at the start of this year when I was looking for more connection, that I would end up building a community of my own. But here we are!  

A Home of Our Own

Such a special community deserves a home. Which is why I'm opening up the Country Hustle Collective venue. 

This will be a western themed venue which will be used as a line dancing and social studio. There will be all the regular Country Hustle line dancing classes, PLUS day time classes... including classes for OAPs and Mums. Where you can line dance, then socialise in the Country Hustle cafe area with coffee and cake afterwards. 

But wait! We aren't just doing line dancing classes. There will be fun events, regular workshops, pop ups and more! 

The thing is, I need your help!

This all costs money. I'm just a regular person trying to do something different, willing to take a risk and give something back to the community. There is no big investor behind me. It's all on me and I am ALL IN! 

So far between myself and others who have supported this project in big and small ways, we completed phase one, which was to raise enough to get the deposit together for the venue.

Now we are on phase 2 of the project. Operation transform the venue into an incredible western themed space. 

It would mean the world (and I mean that) if you could donate whatever you can to help bring this vision to life. 

Here's what your donations will go towards. 

✅ Cover legal costs.

✅ The build out of the cafe bar area. Including purchasing tables, chairs, and fridges etc.

✅ Decor and giving this venue a real western theme. 

✅ Security measures such as cameras.

We have come a long way. This is the final push. If we can make this happen then the doors will be open mid November. 

All donations are welcome. It will make such a huge difference. 

Below is what we hope to transform this white space into, with your help. 

Vanessa x

P.S - You Can Find The Donation Options Below