Visits

Preston Twinning Partnerships visits to our Twin Towns and their return visits

2002

Twin Town
Purpose of visit
Preston The Recklinghausen Gutenberg Choir visiting Preston
Preston= Three Recklinghausen students hosted by members of the twinning committee

2003

Twin Town
Purpose of visit
Preston Hosting the international youth in Europe conference in Preston

2004

Twin Town
Purpose of visit
Preston Committee Meeting

2006

Twin Town
Purpose of visit
Recklinghausen Chair and Secretary to plan 50thtwinning anniversary
Recklinghausen visit to PRESTON Celebrating our 50th twinning anniversary
Recklinghausen Civics and PTPs Committee for the 50th twinning anniversary Return Visit

2007

Twin Town
Purpose of visit
Kalisz Chair, Vice-Chair & Secretary on a fact- finding visit …
Kalisz Civics & PTPs C’tt’ee to Kalisz City Holiday
Nîmes PTPs C’tt’ee visit

2008

Twin Town
Purpose of visit
Almelo visit to PRESTON Almelo twinning committee visit to Preston to celebrate our 60th twinning anniversary
Kalisz PTPs for Kalisz City Holiday (3 persons)
Almelo Return visit by PTPs C’tt’ee

2009

Twin Town
Purpose of visit
Preston PTPs participation in the Hub for Growth international conference in Preston, entertaining and transporting a 3-persons’ delegation from Kalisz
Kalisz 20th twinning anniversary visit to Kalisz
Preston Anniversary visit of a 14-heads delegation from Kalisz and Seminar on Immigration and Integration at the Harris Conference Centre

2010

Twin Town
Purpose of visit
Almelo PTPs Chair, Vice-Chair & Secretary visiting the Almelo Black Bull Rugby Club
Nîmes PTPs delegation for the 55th twinning anniversary 17 persons

2011

Twin Town
Purpose of visit
KaliszChair & Vice-Chair at Kalisz City Holiday
RecklinghausenSecretary & Samantha Carruthers for an international dance workshop

2012

Twin Town
Purpose of visit
Baia Mare (Ro) Twinning conference in Recklinghausen’s Romanian prospective twin town … (4 PTPs delegates attended)
Dordrecht (Nl) Twinning conference in Recklinghausen’s Dutch twin town PTPs delegate: J Burrows

2013

Twin Town
Purpose of visit
Preston Exchange set up for exch. Visit of a Czech college to Preston College
Recklinghausen Twinning Conference, 4 PTPs delegates
Nîmes/Kalisz Organised visits to catering colleges in Nîmes and Kalisz for Preston College
Nîmes Arrange private visit to Nîmes for 10 members
Nîmes Assisting UCLan students to go to Nîmes
Preston Arranged for St. Oswald’s School to host 48 pupils and 10 adults
Kalisz 8 delegates attended Kalisz City Holiday and organised Lancashire food fair and presentation on Autism’ @ the Kalisz Autism Conference …
Kalisz Assisted Our Lady’s High School exchanging with two high schools in Kalisz
Recklinghausen Secretary arranged and accompanied U11 football team to Recklinghausen’s international football tournament
Preston Entertained and hosted visitors from Nîmes
Douai (F) Twinning Conference, 3 PTPs delegates
Preston Fundraising car-boot sale

2014

Twin Town
Purpose of visit
Preston Entertained and hosted visitors from Almelo
Preston Fundraising car-boot sale
Recklinghausen Twinning Conference, 6 PTPs delegates
Preston Hosting the North West Twinning Federation’s AGM @ County Hall
Recklinghausen Secretary arranged and accompanied U11 football team to Recklinghausen’s international football tournament
Preston Assisted Preston Trampolining Club to host Recklinghausen Trampolining club.
Preston Work experience student Çansu Özarslan worked at the Chamber of Commerce and brought them in touch with Istanbul Chamber of Commerce

2015

Twin Town
Purpose of visit
Preston Introduced 2 deaf people from Recklinghausen to Deafway
Recklinghausen Secretary arranged and accompanied U11 football team to Recklinghausen’s international football tournament
Recklinghausen Preston Trampolining Club hosted by the Recklinghausen Trampolining Club
Nîmes 60th twinning anniversary with Preston visit with 13 delegates
Recklinghausen Mayor & Consort & Secretary: Recklinghausen leuchtet (illuminated)

2016

Twin Town
Purpose of visit
Preston Recklinghausen visited Preston with 26 delegates for the 60th twinning anniversary and the “Equal Rights” & dealing with disability conference held @ County Hall
Recklinghausen Secretary arranged and accompanied U11 football team to Recklinghausen’s international football tournament
Bytom (Pl) Conference, PTPs 3 delegates
Recklinghausen Return visit to Re with 19 delegates

2017

Twin Town
Purpose of visit
Recklinghausen attended conference; 5 PTPs delegates
Nîmes The Mayor & Mayoress of Preston visiting Nîmes
Recklinghausen Secretary arranged, but did not and accompany U11 football team to Recklinghausen’s international football tournament
Kalisz The Mayor & Mayoress of Preston visiting Kalisz
Preston 70th twinning anniversary with Almelo, hosted an international delegation from Holland, Germany, Poland and France

2018

Twin Town
Purpose of visit
Preston 70th twinning anniversary with Almelo, hosted an international delegation from Holland, Germany, Poland and France
Kalisz Mayor & Mayoress of Preston and PTPs Secretary & Treasurer to Kalisz city holiday
Recklinghausen Preston Ukulele Group visiting
Almelo Return visit to Almelo to celebrate our 70th twinning anniversary with 15 delegates
Nîmes The Mayor & Mayoress of Preston visiting Nîmes
Preston Recklinghausen Ukulele Group at Lancashire Encounter

2019

Twin Town
Purpose of visit
Preston 25 French students meeting the Preston Mayor
Preston 4 French students at Radio Blackburn
Recklinghausen The Mayor & Mayoress of Preston visiting Recklinghausen, accompanied by the Secretary The Union Jack is absent !!!
Kalisz Vice-Chair & Trisha Rollo to Kalisz City Holiday
Preston Celebration of 30th twinning anniversary with Kalisz with 7 Polish & 4 Dutch delegates
Kalisz Preston Ukulele Group visiting
Kalisz Return visit to celebrate our 30th twinning anniversary, 4 delegates, Mayor and Town Clerk
Preston Organised a PTPs display at UCLan and looked after the German Embassy Representative
Nîmes Chairman intro. Two Michelin Star Chefs to Nîmes …