The Salford Twinning Association has held a meeting to discuss upcoming events with the city’s twinned towns.
The association have an ongoing programme of exchanges and events where residents from their twin towns visit Salford, and Salford residents to visit the twinned towns.
The group also hold many other academic, economic, social, and community building opportunities that they continue to explore.
And during the meeting a forthcoming trip for two Salford Harriers runners to a race in Saint Ouen was arranged for this April.
Discussions also included an annual chess tournament which is hoped to be hosted in Salford in June, as well as an exchange trip where the Churches Together group will host guests from Lunen later in the year.
Councillor Hannah Robinson-Smith said: “I’ve been the chair for just over a year now. It is an honour to represent Salford on the international stage, and we are working hard to continue to foster positive links with all four twin towns and cities.”
Ex-Labour councillor Derek Antrobus attended the association and said: “It was a positive meeting at which our volunteers agreed to support local community groups to expand their horizons by engaging with our twin towns.”
Salford’s four twin town links are Clemont-Ferrand, Narbonne, Saint-Ouen, and Lunen.
Clement-Ferrand is in the middle of France and is famous for the chain of volcanoes surrounding it. This was the first French town to be twinned with Salford, on the 15th of May 1966. Jack Goldberg, a second world war former soldier became A Salford councillor in 1956 and searched for a town to twin to Salford, with Clermont-Ferrand meeting his criteria.
The second town, Narbonne is a short drive from the Mediterranean Sea and was originally twinned with Eccles in 1957.
Saint-Ouen, the third town, is located on the river Seine and only a short underground journey from the centre of Paris. It was originally twinned with Worsley in 1961.
Finally, Lunen, located in Germany was first twinned with the former borough of Swinton and Pendlebury from 1966, after a link arose from a wartime friendship between Mr Les Suggett and a German prisoner of war.
The Gallagher Lunen/Salford Travelling Scholarship Trust was then created to allow young people between the age of 16 to 21 to travel between the two cities.
The trust allows young people to have the opportunity to experience the culture and lifestyle of each twin city. Grant funding of up to £650 is available to help facilitate travel and accommodation, application forms can be found here.
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