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Twinning groups merge to secure long-term future
26/07/21
TWO twinning associations in Henley have merged to try and secure their future. Officers and members of the Falaise and Leichlingen groups decided on the move after seeing interest dwindle in recent years. They hope that the new Henley Falaise ...
Slovenian guests at Twinning Association party
18/06/14
A BOAT party was held to raise money for the Henley and Bled Twinning Association. Fifty people attended the event on board the New Orleans on the Thames in Henley and raised £500. Henley was twinned with the Slovenian town last year. Among ...
Henley Borama Friendship Association
07/07/14
THE exhibition of Somali art and craft at the Old Fire Station Gallery from June 6 to 10 far exceeded our wildest hopes. The idea came from Carol Crowdy and much of the work in connection with it was done by her, for which I am most ...
Club news
26/08/14
SINCE the exhibition called Borama Comes to Henley at the Old Fire Station Gallery in June, there have been a few developments. The main one is that the first six priority cases of veterans with cataract problems have been ...
Whitchurch and Goring Twinning Association
02/04/18
WE are delighted to welcome Janet Hurst on Thursday, April 19 with her talk entitled “Goring and Streatley’s hall of fame.” She has researched many aspects of the history of the villages on opposite sides of the Thames ...
Whitchurch and Goring Heath Twinning Association
19/03/18
OUR visit to La Bouille this year is fixed for Friday to Monday, May 4 to 7. Our hosts are encouraging us to come with as many people as possible. We will have a luxury coach leaving Whitchurch at about 9am on the ...
20/01/20
THE annual meeting of Whitchurch & Goring Heath Twinning Association will be held at the Old Stables on Tuesday, February 11 at 7pm. The forthcoming visit to La Bouille, probably on the first weekend in May, will ...
Henley Falaise Twinning Association
18/03/19
THE association’s annual meeting took place at Henley Golf Club on March 5. The chairman’s report was as follows: “I would like to report that we have just come to the end of an entirely exceptional year for our ...
Henley and Falaise Twinning Association
01/10/18
THE association held its annual petanque afternoon in Wallingford on Saturday, September 15. The players competed for the Peter Lowery Memorial Shield at Wallingford Petanque Club’s “boulodrome”, which is part ...
Friends hold fund-raiser for city devastated by cyclone
19/07/18
A CHARITY fund-raiser was held to help the residents of a city in Somaliand which was devastated by a tropical cyclone. Up to 60 people were killed, homes were destroyed and livestock killed when the cyclone ...
11/02/19
STEPHEN BARKER will speak at our annual meeting on Thursday, February 21 on the subject of “The Armistice of 1918 and after”, a timely reminder that the grim events of the First World War didn’t end with ...
Forget Brexit, we're still friends
01/06/17
A GROUP of almost 30 visitors from Henley’s twin town of Falaise in Normandy enjoyed a four-day trip to this area. The delegation was welcomed by members of the Henley Falaise Twinning Association for ...
Henley Falaise and Leichlingen Twinning Association
09/08/21
HENLEY’S new joint twinning association with Falaise and Leichlingen hosted an introductory lunch before its first annual meeting. About 40 members of the association, which previously existed as ...
Clooneys welcome twins Ella and Alexander
07/06/17
AMAL Clooney has given birth to twins. Ella and Alexander were born on Tuesday morning and are the first children for the human rights lawyer and her Hollywood actor husband George Clooney. A ...
Borama Henley Friendship Committee
19/05/14
THE association is arranging an exhibition called Borama Comes to Henley at the Old Fire Station Gallery from June 5 to 10. This is a follow-up to last year’s visit by Somaliland’s second ...
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