Eight Jhooming Great Years!

  • 27 May 2010 – Launch of Just Jhoom!

  • 9 July 2010 – Just Jhoom! receives accreditation from REPs (the Register of Exercise Professionals) making it the first Bollywood dance-fitness instructor course to get accreditation from the fitness industry in the UK. This strong external endorsement from REPs establishes Just Jhoom! as the UK’s leading Bollywood dancercise specialist.
  • October 2010 – First Just Jhoom! instructor course held at Surrey Sports Park. Instructors start running classes all over the UK as well as in Dubai, Sweden and the Czech Republic.
  • February 2011 – First Just Jhoom! Dance-Fitness DVD is released. This was the first time that Bollywood tracks were used on a Dance-Fitness DVD in the UK with the full blessings of the film production house Yash Raj Films, Mumbai.

  • 2011 – Junior Jhoom! is launched – a new course to train current Just Jhoom! Instructors to deliver Just Jhoom! in schools for children aged 3 – 16 years old.
  • 2012 – Forever Jhoom! for older people and people with limited mobility is launched.
  • January 2012 – Just Jhoom! wins the local Business Accelerator Award through the Surrey Advertiser.
  • May 2012 – The healthy eating Indian cookbook Cook to Jhoom! is released by Just Jhoom!

Cover of the Cook to Jhoom cookbook

  • March 2013 – Just Jhoom! partnered with Pure Energy to launch the Just Jhoom! presents Bollywood-Bhangra double music album.

  • April 2013 – Just Jhoom! Director and Founder Shalini Bhalla is named as “One of 20 Female Entrepreneurs Energising Britain” by Real Business.
  • May 2013 – Shalini wins the Asian Women of Achievement Award for Arts and Culture (in association with RBS)
  • August 2013 – Just Jhoom! worked with Horsham-based Exercise Movement Dance Partnership to create and launch a Level 2 Just Jhoom! qualification.
  • March 2013 – Just Jhoom! holds its first Instructor Convention in Birmingham
  • 2014 – Center Parcs launches Just Jhoom! classes across all their sites as a result of in-house training provided by Just Jhoom!
  • September 2014 – Just Jhoom! starts its first Mindfulness and Meditation classes in Surrey.
  • June 2015 – Just Jhoom! launches its new online Bollywood Bhangra Instructor Training programme.
  • January 2016 – Just Jhoom! is shortlisted as one of six finalists at the inaugural Cranleigh & District Business, Innovation & Growth (BIG) Awards.
  • February 2016 – the Just Jhoom! Dance Group provide choreography and dancers to work with professional actors from the Guildford Shakespeare Company in their production of The Winter’s Tale.
  • March 2016 – Shalini launches a new, free online 28-day programme called Compassionate Me – enabling people to cultivate compassion for themselves, friends, family, strangers and the planet.
  • May 2016 – Just Jhoom! launch a new website, with new online programmes available to the general public, including a new “Teach Bollywood Dance” course and a “Learn Mindfulness and Meditation”
  • January 2017 – The Jeremy Lucas Education Fund is launched following the death of Just Jhoom! Director Jeremy Lucas
  • January 2017 – Just Jhoom! and Shalini are featured in the charity MIND’s new Magazine
  • June 2018 – Always With You– a memoir by Just Jhoom! Director Shalini Bhalla will be launched – detailing the conceptualisation, creation and development of Just Jhoom!

  • 2010 – 2018 Just Jhoom! featured on numerous media platforms including ITV, BBC, Channel 4, The Metro, Red Magazine to name just a few.
  • 2010 – 2018 Just Jhoom! Dance Group perform all over the UK and abroad too at shows, weddings, festivals, charity events, flashmobs
  • 2010 – 2018 Just Jhoom! HQ and Instructors raise thousands of pounds for charities around the UK including Breakthrough Breast Cancer, Cancer Research, Race For Life, Penny Brohn, Debenhams Think Pink, Macmillan, to name a few.