Voluntary organisation – last updated: 5 January 2012
Primary interest: Communities of interest
Activity: Cultural exchange
Primary beneficiaries: --
Area of activity: Reading-wide
Telephone: 0118 9470258
Email: chairman@reading-dusseldorf.org.uk Web site: www.reading-dusseldorf.org.uk
Founded in 1947 the Reading Dusseldorf Association promotes links of friendship between Reading and Dusseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. We have one of the oldest Anglo-German links and are formally twinned, with the link actively encouraged by the two Councils. Our main activities are to encourage groups, clubs, societies and companies to establish links with corresponding organisations in Dusseldorf and to run exchange visits. We also undertake educational and social activities mainly for our members. In most years, in addition to our Annual Meeting, we hold a wine and cheese evening with a speaker on Germany or German cultural affairs; a dinner; a barbecue; a social event (often a visit) in late summer; and regular committee meetings. Other organisations such as choirs, orchestras, churches, schools and universities and sports clubs hold exchanges and other joint activities with Dusseldorf equivalents.
Contact details as above
Reading Dusseldorf Association, Civic Offices, Civic Centre, READING, RG1 7AE
Wine and cheese evening with lecture, typically in February. AGM, typically in November. Other occasional public meetings. Committee meetings. Typically meet from 8.00pm to 10.00pm 2 or 3 times each year (general meetings) and 4 or 5 times each year (committee meetings).
Mr Robert Dimmick - Chair
Mr Chris Barlow - Secretary
secretary@reading-dusseldorf.org.uk
Miss Sylvia Clarke - Membership Secretary
membership@reading-dusseldorf.org.uk
Contact for enquiries about membership and booking for future events.
We deeply regret to record the death on 25 January of Martyn Allies, DFC, MBE, aged 89. He was the Chairman of the Reading Düsseldorf Association for over twenty years, and actively involved for much longer both with us and also with many other community organisations.
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