Author: Brian Smedley

The year 2020 started with absolute hopelessness. Britain had voted in the most right wing government in it’s history devoted to a policy of destroying the futures of the youth of this country by […]

2019 was a difficult year in Britain as the Government was stalemated about the dreadful plans for Brexit..everything that we had worked to avoid. We continued nevertheless. A big programme with many countries and […]

Another year of uncertainty as Brexit loomed over us. 2018 we continued with our internationalist projects and hoped that some good would come of it.

2104 was a year which saw Bridgwater International develop and consolidate wider links amongst our twin towns. In particular we promoted our Italian partners and at the same time our French partners asked us […]

Another year another programme of activities. Our longstanding link with Richard Huish College came to an end this year as they asked for a visit to Barcelona and then ruled it too dangerous. However, […]

2012 was a busy year for us…as it should be, being the 20th anniversary year.  Jana Branecka was now living in Bridgwater and working with the admin for the projects. We stepped up our […]

2011 was another year of consolidating and moving forward. In Bridgwater Jjana Branecka was now living and working for us and making websites, designing posters, translating and doing all the accounts. Lots of groups […]

2010 was another yearful of college excursions, football, music, new destinations and old ones. Let’s have a look at what that actually involved. Lots of schools….probably the height of our taking British schools abroad […]

During 2009 we continued with our major European projects. We took a civic delegation to the wine festival in Uherske Hradiste We took a multinational team to Bristol  to take part in the Sandino […]

In 2008 we took the Rhode Lane Wanderers football team to Prague, Kladno and Uherske Hradiste. We were helped tremendously by Jana Branecka who organised a match at her Buchlovice school. The students, from […]