Category Archives: Göttingen News

From 27 July to 3 August 2024, 6 young people from Cheltenham joined 16 other youngsters from Göttingen and their partner town of Torun in Poland for the International Youth Peace Camp in Göttingen. The theme of this year’s exchange was diversity and the group enjoyed water sports activities, a trip to the Harz mountains,Continue reading “2024 Youth Peace Camp”

The very successful Peace Camp took place in Cheltenham this summer with young people from Göttingen and Wittenberg in Germany, Torun in Poland and Cheltenham coming together to enjoy a week of activities around the theme of sustainability. The originally titled ‘Youth for Peace Camp’ was started in 1995 in Göttingen to mark 50 yearsContinue reading “Peace Camp 2023”

It is not unusual for local councillors with an interest in international relations to take part in visits to our twin towns to see what they can learn and then share that knowledge on their return. One such councillor did just that on the visit to Göttingen in September 2023 and the account of hisContinue reading “Working Together”

During the citizens group visit to Göttingen from 21-28 September 2023, the second edition of the book 13 Short Stories was launched. At the Official Reception hosted by Petra Broistedt, Mayor of Göttingen, the author William Lewis read one of the stories and the translator Christiane Christen read it in German.  The evening was attendedContinue reading “Cheltenham and Göttingen Storytelling Project Success”

The City of Göttingen’s International Relations Officer, Frau Karin Ropeter, was presented with a citation scroll acknowledging her dedication and unstinting commitment to the twinning link between Cheltenham and Göttingen during over 40 years of service in the International Department of Stadt Göttingen. The Mayor of Cheltenham, Cllr Matt Babbage, presented Karin Ropeter with theContinue reading “40 Years of Twinning Service Recognised”

During the citizens visit to Göttingen in September 2023, the Deputy Mayor of Göttingen (an English teacher) asked if any of the group wished to to assist her in an English lesson she would be giving at the Juvenile Detention Centre in  Göttingen. Four willing volunteers stepped forward and armed with just their ID wentContinue reading “Cheltenham Visitors help Young Offenders”

On a lovely sunny September morning in Göttingen, the co-founder of the Cheltenham Göttingen Youth Sports Exchange was remembered with the unveiling of a plaque in his honour at the Göttingen Sports Centre’s Guest House. Phillip Gordon ‘Jasper’ Cook founded the exchange of young sports people between the two twin towns in 1967 together withContinue reading “Founder of Cheltenham Göttingen Youth Sports Exchange Honoured”

On Thursday 21 September 2023, 38 Cheltenham twinning enthusiasts set off by coach for their twin town of Göttingen, Germany. With an overnight stop in Antwerp the group made it to Göttingen in the late afternoon the next day. A programme of events had been drawn up by the German hosts, but unfortunately the discoveryContinue reading “Successful Twinning Trip to Göttingen”