Welcome to the UK Town Twinning Portal
www.towntwinning.org.uk
A portal to the world of Twinning, open to all UK "Twinners".
This is the site for everyone interested in Town Twinning activities within the United Kingdom. The place to find out about your local twinning groups, to discover how to contact your local association and who they are twinned with.
For current and potential twinning groups this is the place to discover how to go about setting up a twinning link, and where to go to find a potential twinning partner, to check current information concerning twinning, travel information, and useful links..
This site also includes an article section which contains factual and “how to” articles, feature articles, and amusing stories, a news section about the activities of British groups and a recipe section for you to submit your favourite international receipes..
Other features are planned for introduction as the site grows. In other words, it is intended that this will develop into a “one stop” centre for all twinning matters.
The Forums are the home to several discussion points, such as "Is twinning still relevant now?", "How do we appeal to new and especially younger members?", "Do we get sufficient support from our councils/local community?" these are just a few items that have been raised and for which we would appreciate your views, but the forums/discussion boards are open for YOU to raise ANY twinning related subject you wish...........please feel free to raise your question or to express your views.
We have recently opened the "Calendar" feature within the forums which allows you to publicise your activites, whether it be a Twinning Visit or a Fund Raising or Social Function, this feature is open to all Forum Members to post but is readable by anyone, why not use it to attract new support or membership.
If we do not have the information you are looking for, please let us know and we will endeavour to help. You can contact us by post, telephone, email, or by a message in the forums.
Turkish Delight
As part of the accession process into the European Union communities in Turkey are looking for twins within the EU including the UK. We have received a request from Istanbul for UK communities who would like to link with various Turkish Towns, the Marmara Region alone has 300 communities looking for links with the object of working together with a view to improving their mutual knowledge, developing common projects, organising seminars on topics of common interest,and encouraging participation at grass roots level".
Turkey is a rapidly growing area for British holidaymakers but is not well represented among our current twinning links, this is a great opportunity to get in on the ground floor of an exciting new expansion for UK Twinners. There is currently a possibilty of funding for new projects but the deadline is 14th August 2007 for this particular round of funding, unfortunately we received the requst too late to publicise it earlier, however, this is a wonderful opportunity for any groups who wish to expand their twinninng portfolio.
Check out our discussion boards for further details.
France
We have a new request from France for a British Twin Town, Le Molay Vittry (pop.3000) is looking for a replacement for its previous English Twin town was unable to continue the link
Check out our forums for towns which are looking for a British link, we currently have requests from places as diverse as France, Spain, Turkey, Malawi and Swaziland.
The link to the appropriate section of the forums is here
Today, we have 160groups listed,
Representing 291 seperate Twinning Groups,
who between them represent 403 individual Twinning links.
Latest News
Twinning – call for expressions of interest
European Development Days is a Europa website inviting Local Authorities to
come and sign a twinning covenant during the European Development Days
Full details are available on their website =European
Development Days
Twinning Associations interested in this initiative are advised to bring this to the attention of their Local Authority in case they missed the original announcement on the LGA Website
Global Entrepreneurship Week, 17th - 23rd November 2008
The introduction of new and young blood is vital to the Twinning World, here
is a way in which we can work with the young people in our communities to
encourage their participation in the future of our twinning/friendship links.
All you need to do is to get your local Schools/ Colleges etc involved, and
allow the youngsters to voice their opinions/thoughts/ideas.
For a general synopsis of the project click here
For more detail and a video click here and ensure your speakers are on.
Here are two parts of the project which you may like to take part in,
Firstly, Speednetwork the Globe available here
and The Background to Enterprise Week available here
This is an important item in the International Cooperation Calendar and the UK Town Twinning Portal is proud to have been asked to work in conjunction with this initiative.
If you would like further information please follow the links above or for
information booklets please contact:- Sarah Summers,
Marketing and Enterprise Week Coordinator
020 7430 8023
http://www.makeyourmark.org.uk/
Go on, get your local community involved.
Sponsorship
There are several opportunities for you to sponsor this site. Sponsorship helps us to provide this service free of charge to twinning groups around the country, so please support our sponsors whenever you can. Thank you!