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Blind students inspired by Strictly winner to dance
Students at the Royal National College for the Blind have spent the year learning how to quickstep and jive and recently passed their first dance exam
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Visually-impaired students at Strictly Come Dancing winner Chris McCausland's old college "jumped" at the chance to take up ballroom dance classes.
Rashmi Becker, who created the country's first dedicated blind ballroom programme, said demand had grown since McCausland won the 22nd series of the dancing competition in 2024.
The comedian, who was born with the hereditary eye condition retinitis pigmentosa, studied at the Royal National College for the Blind (RNC) in the 1990s.
"It's just so good for the students' wellbeing, for their mental health, their spatial awareness and they just enjoy it." - RNC's Lucy Proctor