27 Aug 2025 | News
Over the August bank holiday weekend a 35-strong contingent of our German friends came to Chichester for three days of activities. The sun shone throughout, showing the city and countryside at its best. The programme was a mixture of formal and informal, group and...
3 Feb 2025 | News
For some, the trip to Speyer started at the crack of dawn in Northgate car park where 15 or so bleary-eyed Cicestrians boarded a minibus for Heathrow. From Terminal 2 it was a short flight to Frankfurt, and then a bus down the autobahn to Speyer. Others took different...
19 Jan 2025 | News
In August last year, following an invitation from Friends of Speyer’s Rob Campling, I went along to the George and Dragon in North Street to attend a ‘British evening for our visitors from Speyer’. Following Rob’s suggestion that we should arrange to meet up with some...
25 Sep 2024 | News
During July and August 2024, local artist Laura Buckle undertook a residency in Speyer, concluding with an exhibition. What follows is her account of those two months. My time In Speyer was truly life-changing. It felt an honour to be a part of such a long and rich...
4 Sep 2024 | News
Friends of Speyer were delighted to be featured in the Chichester Observer and on the Sussex World news site. The article discusses the twinning between Chichester and Speyer and how Friends of Speyer has been created to foster connections through activities in...
22 May 2024 | News
On 6 March 2023, The Sleepy Lagoon Orchestra, one of the University of Chichester’s many musical ensembles, was invited to perform in the Assembly Room at the twinning ceremony between Chichester and Speyer. Following a version of the Prelude to Charpentier’s Te Deum,...
