Author: Brian Smedley

Bridgwater’s new Italian twin town PRIVERNO is proving a popular destination and with plans for school exchanges, music trips, choir link ups and a history of  film student visits and a bit of football, […]

Every year we’ve taken Somerset singing sensations ‘Voice of the People’ and related choirs to somewhere in Europe. This time it was Croatia, where they stayed at the town of Vrsar and mingled with […]

It’s not everyday you get to take an American bluegrass rap crossover band on a tour of Britain and Holland. But that’s what we did in the winter of 2016. Gangstagrass are an up […]

Following on from the initial school links started up again in 2016, a group of French students from La Ciotat again came to Bridgwater, stayed at Model Farm and linked up with Bridgwater College […]

Some years back now, Arabska Gymnasium in Prague 6 sent a group of students to Bridgwater every year. Originally under Dr Soucek, then under Pavla Pracnova. For a few years now they haven’t been […]

After several years of patiently building up links with our Italian Twin Town, Priverno, in the Latina region of Lazio, which included many civic visits and several music tours, finally we had some students. […]

On 23rd June 1957 Bridgwater Mayor Oscar Coates signed the Twinning agreement in La Ciotat with the French Mayor Jean Graille. 60 years later a group of  Bridgwater La Ciotat Friendship Society members, Town […]

One of our autumn events for 2014 was a visit by some Slovenian teachers from the coastal region of the country. We picked them up at Luton in a minibus and took them on […]

In January and February 2015 we organised a small group of Czech family centre workers from the Akropolis Centre in Uherske Hradiste and another group of Italians from our soon to be twinned town […]

Two Bridgwater Police officers – PC Dominic Bryant and PCSO Mike Shaw, visited the Czech Republic from 12-17 February 2015 on a programme organised by Bridgwater International with the co-operation of  the Uherske Hradiste town […]