In May 2025, we welcomed visitors from Annecy and Gӧttingen to the Jazz Festival. It was the first time we have welcomed both towns to participate in the Jazz Festival, thanks to Ian George and Andrew Lansley of Cheltenham Festivals. The Annecy delegation comprised four young jazz musicians from the Annecy Conservatoire, Rémy Varaine ofContinue reading “Annecy and Gӧttingen visit to Cheltenham Jazz Festival May 2025”
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2024 Youth Peace Camp
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”
International Friendships Forged
Cheltenham International Partnerships and Cheltenham Mayor, Cllr Paul Baker, were delighted to welcome a group of 12 young people from Göttingen led by Jessika Wichner and Nico Hauser on Wednesday 24 July. At the mayoral reception, the Mayor also met with Friedrich and Stephanie Selter. Mr Selter was Superintendent of the Evangelical Lutheran Church inContinue reading “International Friendships Forged”
Peace Camp 2024
Fundraising Quiz Evening Saturday 1 June Last year Springbank Community Group CiC in partnership with Cheltenham International Partnerships, successfully hosted ‘Peace Camp 2023’ 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. This year the peace campContinue reading “Peace Camp 2024”
Peace Camp 2023
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”
Working Together
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”
Cheltenham and Göttingen Storytelling Project Success
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”
40 Years of Twinning Service Recognised
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”
Cheltenham Visitors help Young Offenders
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”
Founder of Cheltenham Göttingen Youth Sports Exchange Honoured
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”
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