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Sleaford - 9th -12th May, Fredersdorf-Vogelsdorf -25th -28th July, Marquette-Lez-Lille 24th -27th Oct. If you would like to attend any of our twinning visits, please contact us. Further details, including travel costs to follow. We still actively seek hosts for our guests from our twin towns, so if you can assist with accommodation, we would be grateful. The association facilitated a […]

From one of our fellow-travellers – This was my first:Visit to Berlin and the former East GermanyFlight on RyanairDeparture from Stansted Airport! And it all went smoothly …. I stayed with Margit, a lovely lady who lives alone in an apartment in Straussberg, a few kilometres from Fredersdorf-Vogelsdorf. We had beautiful views of the River […]

Sleaford once again hosted our good friends from Marquette-Lez-Lille and Fredersdorf-Vogelsdorf over the weekend of the 24th-27th August. The first group to arrive were the Germans, having flown in from Berlin.The French coach arrived late afternoon, with both groups on time. After a quick welcome and reunion in the Town Hall, the guests then went […]

On Thursday 16th June 2022 there was a ceremonial planting of oak trees at the William Alvey School in Sleaford. The oaks celebrate the twenty and ten years of Twinning with Marquette-Lez-Lille in France and Fredersdorf-Vogelsdorf in Germany. Jan Mathieson Chair of the Sleaford Twinning Association spoke about the strong and continuing links. Teachers Stephen […]

This year's twinning visit to Fredersdorf-Vogelsdorf will take place from Thursday 7th- Sunday 10th July 2022. There is a limit of 25 visitors from Sleaford and 25 from Marquette. Travel options are still to be decided, but will likely be coach or minibus to Luton airport. The cost will be £180 per person, with the return […]

The past two years have dealt a significant blow to Twinning activities. However, we aspire to look head with a positive attitude in 2022. Past and recent events show that the future is unpredictable but this should not inhibit sensible planning in an attempt to resume exchange visits. Here in the UK we have decided […]

We have been informed from our friends in Marquette, that they have a tentative date of 14th-17th Oct to visit Fredersdorf-Vogelsdorf and they have extended an invitation for their friends in Sleaford to join them. Due to the current situation, the invite is for a group of no more than 20, who have been double […]

Sleaford hosted the last twinning visit of 2019 at the end of September, 20 years almost to the day after the Twinning Charter with Marquette-lez-Lille was signed here in Sleaford and 10 years after the Sleaford signing of the Twinning Charter with Fredersdorf-Vogelsdorf. The visitors arrived on Thursday afternoon, as usual, first the German group […]

Wolfgang Thamm has written a brief account of those things which (from their point of view) went ahead in this difficult year. “As we will not be able to spend either the last days of this year or the start of 2021 together I have put together a brief resume of the year’s activities, which […]

The second “meeting” of 2019 was in Fredersdorf-Vogelsdorf over the August Bank Holiday weekend and it started with a visit to a traditional glassworks, set in a restored village. We watched demonstrations, toured the museum and then spent the afternoon exploring the village (or in some cases its pub!). There was an “Auberge Espagnole” on […]