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  Details of Funding for School Partnerships can be downloaded HERE
 
Verwood & Three Legged Cross Twinning Association Newsletter for June 2008 click HERE
 
Minutes of the Management Committee Meeting held on 6 March 2008 click HERE
 
Dorset Twinning Association Steering Committee Report August 2007 click HERE
 
Weymouth & Portland-Louviers Society report of visit by French delegation 2008 click HERE
 
Wareham - Conches-en-Ouche Twinning
A small group are making contact with Conches-en-Ouche and visiting them in May, to talk about a new liaison between them and Wareham. If you are interested to learn more, please contact Jacquie Hall via the Wareham-Hemsbach Society - click HERE
 
Wareham-Hemsbach Society Programme for 2008/9 click HERE
 
Wareham-Hemsbach Society AGM 2008 Minutes click HERE
 
Weymouth & Portland-Louviers Society Annual Report click HERE
 
Swanage Town Twinning Association Programme for 2008 click HERE
 
Open times and dates for Tyneham and army range walks for 2007/8/9 available HERE
 
Help on the use of this website and email is available HERE
   

Welcome to our website

  • 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


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Twinnings between Dorset and other countries
 (Please click on name)
 
Blandford-
Preetz
(Germany)		 Bournemouth-Lucerne
(Switzerland)		 Bournemouth-
Netanya
(Israel)		 Christchurch-
Aalen
 (Germany)
Christchurch-
Saint-Ghislain
(Belgium)		 Christchurch-
Tatabanya
(Hungary)		 Dorchester-
Holbćk
(Denmark)		 Dorchester-
Lubbecke
(Germany)
Shaftesbury-
Lindlar
(Germany)		 Sherborne
(Douzelage)-
Altea
(Spain)		 Sherborne
(Douzelage)
Bellagio
(Italy)		 Sherborne
(Douzelage)
Bundoran
(Ireland)
Sherborne
(Douzelage)-
Chojna
(Poland)		 Sherborne
(Douzelage)-
Granville*
(France)		 Sherborne
(Douzelage)-
Holstebro
(Denmark)		 Sherborne
(Douzelage)-
Houffalize
(Belgium)
Sherborne
(Douzelage)-
Judenburg
(Austria)		 Sherborne
(Douzelage)-
Karkkila
(Finland)		 Sherborne
(Douzelage)-
Köszeg
(Hungary)		 Sherborne
(Douzelage)-
Kötzting
(Germany)
Sherborne
(Douzelage)-
Meerssen
(Netherlands)		 Sherborne
(Douzelage)-
Niederanven
(Luxembourg)		 Sherborne
(Douzelage)-
Oxelösund
(Sweden)		 Sherborne
(Douzelage)-
Preveza
(Greece)
Sherborne
(Douzelage)-
Sesimbra
(Portugal)		 Sherborne
(Douzelage)-
Sigulda
(Latvia)		 Sherborne
(Douzelage)-
Susice
(Czech Republic)		 Sherborne
(Douzelage)-
Türi
(Estonia)
Sherborne-
San Gimignano
(Italy)		 Swanage-
Rudesheim
 (Germany)		 Verwood-
Liederbach-am-Taunus
 (Germany)		 Wareham-
Hemsbach
 (Germany)
Weymouth-
Holzwickede
(Germany)		 Wimborne-
Ochsenfurt
(Germany)		 *Included with other Douzelage countries for completeness  

Twinnings between Manche and rest of UK
 (No contact details)
 
Avranches-
Crediton
(Devon)		 Bréhal-
Lydney
(Gloucestershire)		 Bricquebec-
Arlesford
(Hampshire)		 Carentan-
Selby
(Yorkshire)
Condé-sur-Vire-
Whitehill
(Hampshire)		 Coutances-
Ilkley
(Yorkshire)		 Domjean-Tessy/Vire-
Lydiards
(Wiltshire)		 Gavray-
Launton
(Oxfordshire)
Hambye-
Lacey Green
(Buckinghamshire)		 Le Mesnil Vigot-
Churchstanton (Somerset)		 Percy-
Nursling/Rownhams
(Hampshire)		 Pontorson-
Highworth
(Wiltshire)
Région de Daye-
Sedgemoor Villages
(Somerset)		 Réville-
Hambledon
(Hampshire)		 Sourdeval-
Odiham
(Hampshire)		 Torigni-sur-Vire-
Shipston-on-Stour
(Warwickshire)

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.

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

  
 
The 2008 AGM will be held in
The Exchange, 
Sturminster Newton
on the 13 October

For a map of the location of this venue please click HERE
 
European Commission Promotes EU Town Twinning

As part of the "Europe for Citizens" Programme 2007 - 2013, the European Commission has published a new calendar for proposal deadlines as well as a programme guide, "Europe for Citizens", which supports four main types of actions, including activities linked to town-twinning.

This programme, open to all stakeholders promoting active European citizenship, supports a wide range of activities and organisations, especially the involvement of citizens and civil society organisations in the process of European integration.

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

 
Following on from the recent Cherbourg Garden Festival it is proposed to have a return event with French participation at Kingston Maurward on the weekend of  13/14 June 2009. Consideration is being given to having a twinning event to coincide with this, and it would be useful if member associations could bear this possibility in mind in arranging visits from their twin towns
 
Is the information for your association up to date?

This website receives many visitors, so make sure you can be found!

Please use the online form to update your contact details by clicking 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

The page contains a great deal of information and may take a while to download. It will open in a new window
 
Dorset -Manche Twinning Charter signed in St Lo 28 April 1984
Please click on thumbnail to enlarge
 

 
 
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