2004
2004 was a year where things picked themselves up a bit and we continued with the programme as usual, including rock and football tours, student visits, Czechs and Lithuanians and a new destination ‘Hungary’.
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2003 AGM was chaired by Marilyn Wallace. She thanked the Administrator for organising the programme and also the Czech assistants Jana Vastatkova and Katka Piknerova. She also thanked the many volunteers over the year such […]
Read more2002- To the Summit and Beyond…
2002 was the 10th anniversary of the Bridgwater Czech Society being established and one look at the programme after those 10 years could see it was enormous. We had numerous Czech schools touring to […]
Read more2001- On Again On Again On
For 2001 we had Ivana Blahova as our new assistant. Brian was hardly at home as Bridgwater International now sought further countries other than Czech or Slovakia. This year we visited Lithuania and Poland […]
Read more2000 – 21st Century Twinning
Bridgwater International entered the 21st Century moving forwards at the forefront of Czech-Slovak international links. Students funded by EU grants and staff and workers paid for their contribution. The first Czech assistant of the […]
Read more1999 Millenial Break out
By 1999 the Bridgwater Czech Slovak Friendship Society was operating through it’s business arm Bridgwater International. We started employing Czech staff and our first was Lenka Fikarova from Prague. We expanded our projects from […]
Read more1998 Brave New World
In 1998 the Czech-Slovak Society was at its busiest ever. Formally linked now with Prague 6 district (despite not being supported by Sedgemoor) we had a viable business model with the Crowcombe youth hostel […]
Read more1997- Doing the Business
1997 we had expanded around the county, around the Czech Republic and the only direction now was across the border and into Slovakia. The opportunity of twinning with 2 countries from the ashes of […]
Read more1996 – Involving the whole County
Throughout 1995 the Bridgwater Czech Slovak Friendship Society had the most full and challenging programme of any international link group in the UK. We decided this year to expand our contacts and programme around […]
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