Newark Twinning

Emmendingen are gearing up for this years Newark winefest in June, by updating followers on Facebook of the towns plans for the festival weekend.

“Soon it will be time again and preparations are in full swing. On the 14 to 16 June 2013 we will be at the anniversary celebrations of 30 years twinning in Emmendingen with Newark” reads the towns Facebook status.

It goes on by saying “The wineries from Emmendingen and Kaltenbach Gundelfingen-Wildtal will be accompanied by the wine Princess Nicole Grafmüller from the city, and Emmendinger Guggenmusik “Erscht emol Gugge.”

“The organizers Susanne Kreiner (Emmendingen twinning) and Andrea Schlenk of the Breisgauer wine can look forward to this special trip to the festival as well as the tones Breisgauer a Guggenmusik in England” the pages adds.

In the photo, also posted, are from left to right: Markus Weh (Erscht emol Gugge), Ulrika Dreher (Winery Dreher), Christine Kaltenbach (Kaltenbach’s wines, Gundelfingen-Wildtal), Andrea Schlenk (Breisgauer wine GmbH), Susanne Kreiner (Emmendingen partnership), Roland Minder (Twinning Association) and Ronja Wehrle (BA student tourist info Emmendingen).

Newark’s biennial Weinfest, celebrating wine from our twin town of Emmendingen, is set to take place again in 2013.

The three day event will coincide with the Newark Festival and Newark Carnival, and will take place on the 14th, 15th and 16th of June 2013.

Unlike the past two LocAle and Weinfest’s the event will take place on Riverside Park, where previously the event has been held in the historic grounds of Newark Castle.

The festival will not only join forces with the Newark Festival, which took place for the first time in 2012, and saw over 6000 people attend, but in 2013 will also see Newark Town Council invite delegations from Newark’s twin towns as this year marks the 30th anniversary of the twinning agreement with Emmendingen, and the 25th anniversary with St Cyr-sur-Loire.

The Weinfest will see close to ten wine growers from our twin town of Emmendingen bringing thousands of bottles of wine to Newark for locals to try and enjoy.

The weekend will form part of the Newark Festival weekend, which has free admission (excluding the Saturday evening Madness concert.)

The Newark Twinning Associations annual fundraiser the “Last Night of the Proms” high all the right notes on Saturday, 26th January, with a full house enjoying a night of top quality music performed by the Ransom Reunion Band.

Conductor Tom Daroven, from South Wales, introduced proms favourites including “Rule Britannia and “The Dambusters” along with classic themes from Broadway and the West End.

The association held the 29th annual event to help raise funds for the organisation so that representatives from Newark’s three twin towns can visit the town, and that the association can pay for trips to Emmendigen, Saint-Cyr-Sur-Loire and Sandomierz.

The evening also celebrated the 20 anniversary of Newark’s twinning with our French town of Saint-Cyr-Sur-Loire and the 30th year with Emmendigen, our German twin town.

The evening, also included a very special guest who joined the band, soloist Charlie Pearce. Charlie is 10 years old and from the Minster School Southwell, and is no stranger to treading the boards, having appeared many times with New Youth Theatre, playing the parts of Grace from “Annie”, Queen of Hearts from “Alice in wonderland” and Mr Bumble from “Oliver”.

The conductor for the evening was the international renowned Tom Davoren who has conducted bands including; the Layland Band, the Central Band of The Royal Airforce, the Brass Band Oberösterreich (Austria) and the Dalewood Auckland Brass Band (New Zealand).

Below is a video of the evenings finale:

The Newark Twinning Association’s 2013 Last Night of the Proms is set to take place on Saturday, 26th January.

This annual fund raiser is taking place at the Palace Theatre, Newark, with tickets on sale now, featuring the Ransome Reunion Band, and hosted by Howard Newport.

The history of the event begins in the early days of the Twinning Association’s existence it was clear that a major fund raising event would need to be arranged, ideally one which could be run on an annual basis.

As the Association had developed from the Town Council a couple of former Town Councillors, Len Wilkes and Tom Bickley, together with the then Town Clerk, Mike Wilson, approached the Ransome Band to investigate the possibility of a joint event. The end result of their discussions was the “Last Night of the Proms” with the inaugural event held in the Sconce Hills School Hall in 1984 and so was born one of the most popular concerts in Newark’s musical calendar.

The profits from the “Last Night of the Proms” are used by the association to help to fund the various visits to and from our twin towns.

Tickets for the “Last Night of the Proms” will be available from the Palace Theatre Box Office, or Chair Rita Crowe.

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Did you know that Germany is our second biggest export market after the US? So it’s not surprising that when Newark Twinning and companies from Newark were invited to attend the Emmendingen exhibition in order to showcase what Newark has to offer, local company Optima jumped at the chance.

The Leistungsschau exhibition was held over the weekend of 16th to 17th June and took over the whole of Emmendingen’s industrial area.

Jo Small, a member of the Twinning Committee  went as part of a group with the Newark Twinning Association and Epix Media and joined with representatives from Emmendingen’s twin towns of Six Fours Les Plages in France and Sandomierz in Poland.

Optima Training were just one of the 228 exhibitors welcoming over 50,000 visitors to the weekend. The exhibition was opened by the Mayor of Emmendingen, Mr Stefan Schlatterer, who has recently been elected for a further 8 years.

He made us feel incredibly welcome and invited us to various events over the course of the weekend including: a reception and tour at Trautwein, a manufacturer of innovative baths and whirlpools; VIP tickets to a public viewing of the Denmark versus Germany football match, which was attended by around 4,000 people; and an international evening of friendship and music.

We all had a great time, made some fantastic business contacts and, more importantly, started to build relationships with potential clients. There has since been a flurry of emails from Germany indicating that some potential business may well have been brought back to other companies in Newark. The other twin towns had fantastic stands with local products, promotional literature and gifts, as well as representation from their respective Mayor’s offices.

The twinning associations in France, Germany and Poland have really strong links with the business community and are very much supported by their local towns. It was difficult not to be slightly envious – Newark Twinning Association is self-financing and anything that we took with us had to be begged or borrowed.

Epix Media did receive a financial contribution from Newark Business Club as reward for promoting the club in Emmendingen and we did receive some local press coverage. However, on the whole, despite the range of opportunities for Newark business and tourism, it was difficult to obtain support and interest in the trip.

We’ve got four years until the next exhibition so ‘Come on Newark’, give us some support and find out how international twinning relationships can help move your business forward.

Don’t just take my word for it – speaking earlier in June, export expert for the East Midlands, UK Trade & Investment (UKTI) Regional Director Peter Hogarth said of the East Midlands “… we urge local companies to consider whether they could be engaging in export. Research shows that companies working overseas are more resilient and more likely to stay in business than those that don’t, particularly during such economically turbulent times.”

Welcome to our new website, which will keep you up-to-date on all the latest news from the Newark Twinning Association.

Opened in time for the 29th Annual Newark Twinning Association “Last Night Of The Proms” fundraiser, the site aims to inform you about the latest news from our trips to Newark’s three twin towns, as well as their visits to the UK.

This year we are celebrating 30 years of twinning with our German twin town of Emmendingen, and 20 years being twinned with Saint-Cyr-Sur-Loire in France, so we took the opportunity to refresh our look.

On behalf of all our committee and association, Welcome to our website - Bienvenue sur notre site - Willkommen auf unserer Website - Witamy na naszej stronie!