Beverley Lemgo Twinning Association

Our Activities

So that you can judge whether or not our activities may be of interest to you, here are brief details of just a few of them.

For many years we have organised football matches for junior and adult teams to play in both Lemgo and Beverley.

A Lemgo sports club followed the advice of a European initiative encouraging the organising of Eurathlon teams to run, cycle and swim to their Twin towns. Lemgo's former East German twin town of Stendal sent a team to join up with Lemgo to run and cycle to their French counterpart and then on to swim the channel and run and cycle from Dover to Beverley, where we had arranged an enjoyable weekend. Beverley Ramblers walk and socialise with the Lemgo Wandergruppe on exchange visits.

There have been many exchanges of musicians, choirs, dancers and artists between the two towns. A (classical) guitar quartet, dance groups from Beverley High and Little Weighton schools, marching and concert bands, orchestras, string quartets. Exhibitions of paintings, drawings and photographs.

The Association has been very successful over the years in assisting groups and individuals in broadening their experience of mainland Europe through contact with our German opposites. The examples mentioned above are but a part of the activities which we have helped to facilitate, and we are always open to consideration of requests for help from people with other interests.

General exchanges between members of both Associations are also very important in keeping this connection alive and active. They help to maintain the long term well being of these firmly established links.