IF you started 2014 with a promise to 'get out there' but got put off by pressurised organised dating events, here's an alternative that could reignite your enthusiasm.

Their events include a wine-tasting ice-breaker and a relaxed natural format

Across a Crowded Room offers an antidote to the usual bell-ringing and box ticking with bespoke wine tasting-dating events.

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Their events include a wine-tasting ice-breaker and a relaxed natural format without any intense one-on-one conversations. They’ve also removed the soul destroying morning-after admin of logging-on and ticking boxes.

“It’s all there for our guests on the night,” says founder Anna Whitehead. “The icebreaker means conversation flows naturally, a host is on hand to make sure everything goes smoothly, and we’ve devised a neat way to put people in touch without any next-day.”

It seems this could be the ideal way to take a break from the usual dating scene. And as they say at Across a Crowded Room ‘meet, mingle, and maybe more.’

There are three events now taking bookings at www.acrossacrowdedroom.co.uk/events/

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