Dorset Twinning Association

Some facts and figures;

The County of Dorset is twinned with La Manche, a department of NW France in the Basse-Normandie region

A total of nineteen towns or villages (including one island) in the County of Dorset have twinning partners in La Manche

Eight Dorset towns are twinned with locations in France outside La Manche

Elsewhere in Europe, over thirty towns have twinning partners in Dorset

In La Manche, there are at least sixteen towns which are twinned with towns in England outside of Dorset. More may have been added since this list was complied

Banners

The three "pull up banners" which were prepared for Dorset Twinning Association publicity and which were displayed at the AGM last October are available for use by Individual Twinning Associations free of charge, although a donation of £5 per banner to the Dorset Twinning Association would be welcome. They are normally kept by the Secretary at the Dorset Music Service offices in Blandford, requests should be made to the Secretary or any other member of the DTA Committee

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Free, easy to use online facility available

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Finding a Twinning Partner

There is useful advice on the HELP pages on the Council of European Municipalities and Regions / Conseil des Communes et Régions d'Europe website which you can visit by clicking HERE

If you explore the website, you will find that you can view details of any towns that are actively seeking a twinning partner and you can also present a request for your own town

European Commission Promotes EU Town Twinning

The new calendar contains all deadlines for submission of applications for funding request until 2013. The programme guide provides details about funding possibilities and application procedures.

For more information, click HERE

The Local Government Information Bureau

has produced a guide to international partnerships. 'Take your partners' may be found online by clicking HERE

UKOWLA has a toolkit that includes advice for creating and developing partnerships with communities in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean

Download it from HERE

Full details of our 'Leisure and Wellbeing' insurance cover with Norwich Union may be seen by clicking HERE
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For a complete listing of all twinned towns in the UK please click HERE

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Any Dorset twinning association wishing to have their own information pages included is invited to contact the website administrator

Please help us to keep this website up to date by monitoring contact details and other information

Find a member association

Twinnings between Dorset and La Manche

(with links to contact details where known)

Sturminster Marshall (Inactive)

Sturminster Newton

Swanage (Swanage French Circle)

-St Sebastien de Raids

St Sauveur le Vicomte

Granville More information on Sherborne

The Dorset Twinning Association exists to provide a supportive network between member associations.

This website is intended to be a resource offering contact details, news, useful information, photographs and relevant links for twinned towns in Dorset and La Manche and throughout Europe.

Wareham(Inactive)

Twinnings between Dorset and rest of France

(with links to contact details where known)

Asnelles (Normandie-Calvados)

Bayeux (Normandie-Calvados)

Segré (Maine et Loire)

Neubourg (Normandie-Eure)

Brionne (Normandie-Eure)

Champtoceaux (Loire Altantique)

Conches-en-Ouche (Normandie-Eure)

Louviers (Normandie-Eure)

Avranches

Bréhal

Bricquebec

Carentan

Condé-sur-Vire

Coutances

Domjean-Tessy/Vire

Gavray

Hambye

Le Mesnil Vigot

Percy

Pontorson

Région de Daye

Réville

Sourdeval

Torigni-sur-Vire

Twinnings between towns in La Manche and rest of UK

(No contact details)

Crediton (Devon)

Lydney (Gloucestershire)

Arlesford (Hampshire)

Selby (Yorkshire)

Whitehill (Hampshire)

Ilkley (Yorkshire)

Lydiards (Wiltshire)

Launton (Oxfordshire)

Lacey Green (Buckinghamshire)

Churchstanton (Somerset)

Nursling/Rownhams (Hampshire)

Highworth (Wiltshire)

Sedgemoor Villages (Somerset)

Hambledon (Hampshire)

Odiham (Hampshire)

Shipston-on-Stour (Warwickshire)

Twinnings between Dorset and other countries

(with links to contact details where known)

Shaftesbury

Lucerne (Switzerland)

Netanya (Israel)

Aalen (Germany)

Saint-Ghislain (Belgium)

Tatabanya (Hungary)

Holbæk (Denmark)

Lubbecke (Germany)

Lindlar (Germany)

Rudesheim (Germany)

Liederbach-am-Taunus (Germany)

Hemsbach (Germany)

Holzwickede (Germany)

Ochsenfurt(Germany)

In addition the Sherborne Douzelage has established links with many towns across the member states of the EU. An updated list of these towns is contained on their webpage.