Twin Town Groups, Local Groups, Wales NSC and some UK-based projects

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You don't have to go to meetings to take part in exciting activities in your area. Get in touch and see how you can get involved.
Click here >> for an inspiring report of their activities in 2005. Plenty of photos too.

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Twin Town Groups

Mural funded by Oxford-Leon Trust

• Bristol Link with Nicaragua
• Friends of Morazán, Bristol
• Islington Managua Friendship Association
• Leeds - La Concha
• Leicester Masaya Link Group
• Maria Zunilda Perez Brigade
• Norwich/Norfolk - El Viejo Link
• Oxford - Leon Association
• Reading - San Francisco Libre Association
• Santa Rosa Fund, Tavistock 
• Sheffield - Esteli Friendship Society
• Swindon Ocotal Link
• Wales NSC

Central America Local Groups

• Birmingham Action for Central America

Other Groups

       * Nicaragua Education, Culture and Arts Trust (NECAT), Aylesbury
       * Nicaragua Education and Sustainable Tourism Trust (NEST), Birmingham
       * Nicaragua Learning Exchange, Edinburgh
       * Street Twinning. So far streets in Sheffield, Esteli (Nicaragua) and Melbourne (Australia)
       * The Miraflor Foundation, Sheffield     

You may also like to go onto the site of the Town Twinning Portal on www.towntwinning.org.uk
This is the site for everyone interested in Town Twinning activities within the United Kingdom. The place to find out about your local twinning groups, to discover how to contact your local association and who they are twinned with.

Twin Towns Groups

Children in Puerto Morazán painting mural of Bristol

Bristol Link with Nicaragua (BLINC)
Bristol Link with Nicaragua supports progressive projects in the Puerto Morazán region and campaigns on issues affecting Nicaragua as a whole such as debt, aid & trade, & domestic violence.                                      
Clive Weston
43 Friezewood Rd
Bristol BS3 2AD
0117 953 7024
cliveweston@yahoo.co.uk
OR Alix Hughes 0117 344 4450
alix.hughes@uwe.ac.uk
http://bristolnicaragua.wordpress.com/2009/

Friends of Morazán (under 5's support charity), Bristol
Twinned with Puerto Morazán
Tom Hore
21 Daisy Rd, Eastville
Bristol BS5 6JS
0117 951 2193
thcp@daisy21.fsnet.co.uk

Islington Managua Friendship Association
Twinned with Barrio Edgard Munguia, Managua                    

Nursery school in Managua funded by the Islington Managua Friendship Association. Photo: Brian Mack

 

Brian Mack
16 Connaught Rd
London N4 4NS
020 7272 9916
Brianmack100@hotmail.com
www.imfa.org.uk
 

Leeds - La Concha Group
Sarah Fishwick
31 Aviary Grove
Leeds LS12 2NU
0113 279 9153
sarahfishwick@btinternet.com
http://leedscasg.wordpress.com

Leicester Masaya Link Group: Year 6 pupils at the 'Nicaraguan' market, selling  tortillas and other plant-based products they make during the Food for Thought project developed with the University of Leicester Botanic Garden.
For more details see

www.emngps.org.uk/pages/progress.htm

 

Leicester Masaya Link Group
Twinned with Masaya                                   
Claire Plumb
Southfields Library
Southfields Drive                    
Leicester LE2 6QS
0116 223 2272
LMLG@leicestermasayalink.org.uk
www.leicestermasayalink.org.uk


Maria Zunilda Perez Brigade
Twinned with Achuapa
Antony Hoskyns
25 Hamilton Gdns
London NW8 9PU
020 7286 3483
hoskyns@ntlworld.com


Norwich/Norfolk - El Viejo Link
Ralph Gayton
52 Aylsham Rd
Norwich
Norfolk NR3 3ES
01603 466 776
ralph.gayton@ntlworld.com
http://www.norwichelviejo.org.uk
 

Oxford - Leon Association & Trust
Colin Reid &  Peter  McQuitty
International officers
Oxford City Council
Town Hall
Oxford OX1 4YS
01865 252 590 (Colin)
creid@oxford.gov.uk
01865 252 780 (Peter)
pmcquitty@oxford.gov.uk
 

Farming in San Francisco Libre
Credit: Reading SFL Association    

Pupils using the library at the Santa Rosa School. The library was established by Ben Dalton’s widow, the Santa Rosa Fund and the British Embassy.

Reading - San Francisco Libre Association
232 Tilehurst Rd
Reading RG20 2NI
Dav.Ru466@btopenworld.com
www.reading-sfl.org.uk
Group not currently active.

Santa Rosa Fund, Tavistock         
The Santa Rosa Fund is twinned with the Santa Rosa School in Managua and supports a range of other educational initiatives in Nicaragua.
Rick Blower,
Clobeny Cottage
Brentor,
Tavistock, Devon PL19 0LG
r.blower@btinternet.com
OR Martin Mowforth
mmowforth@plymouth.ac.uk
www.santarosafund.org
 

Sheffield - Esteli Friendship Society
Adrian Look
124 Clissefield Rd
Sheffield S8 9DN
0114 255 5550
sheffieldesteli@yahoo.co.uk 
www.esteli.org.uk

Swindon Ocotal Link
Gillian Wallis
338 Marlborough Rd
Swindon
Wiltshire SN3 1NP
01793 639502
solswindon@ukonline.co.uk


Wales NSC
Linked with the Caribbean Coast of Nicaragua
Ben Gregory
2 il Lawr
Ty Iorwerth
Pen Y Groes
LL54 6ES
01286 882 359
benica@gn.apc.org
www.walesnsc.wordpress.com
www.cyfanfyd.org.uk   has a section on Wales NSC

Central America Local Groups

Birmingham Action for Central America
One of BACA's projects is the Nueva Esperanza Support Group which focuses on support to the ex-refugee community of Nueva Esperanza in El Salvador. They were refugees throughout the 1980s in Nicaragua, and are still working as a collective and a co-operative. 
Tim Hollis
169 Newcombe Rd
Handsworth
Birmingham B21 8DB
0121 523 4118
mogstim@hotmail.com

 

Other Groups

Nicaragua Education, Culture and Arts Trust (NECAT)
This registered charity aims to support educational initiatives amongst marginalised communities in and around the city of León. NECAT has as its focus an after-school club for children between the ages of 8 and 14 where the participants get individual attention from qualified teachers and opportunities to participate in cultural and folklore events.
Martin Roger
61 Tring Rd.
Aylesbury, Bucks. HP20 1LD
Tel. 01296 483322
info.necat@zetnet.co.uk
www.necat.org.uk

The NEST Trust English for Community and Rural Tourism Project
The NEST Trust connects volunteers willing to teach English with communities in Nicaragua that need to learn English to support their diversification into rural and community tourism. There are specific teaching materials which are available for this and any similar project. 
Maggie Jo St John
19 Selwyn Rd
Birmingham
B16 OSH
01242 621 359
info@thenesttrust.org.uk
www.thenesttrust.org.uk

Nicaragua Learning Exchange
Beatriz Herrero
Adult Learning Project (ALP)
117 Fountainbridge
Edinburgh
EH3 9QG
0131 2215800
nicaragualearningexchange@googlemail.com
http://nicuragualearningexchange.wikispaces.com/

Street Twinning (so far streets in Sheffield, Esteli and Melbourne)
Street twinning is like town twinning but on a much more intimate scale. Residents of three places get to know each other by organising events such as street parties, exchanging greetings and gifts. The twinning of Freedom Rd in Sheffield, the barrio Monte Sinai in Esteli in Nicaragua, and Dundas Place in Melbourne, Australia started in 2006 with workshops, fundraising events and street parties in all three places on 10 June.
www.streettwinning.org.uk

The Miraflor Foundation
The Miraflor Foundation supports community-led projects in the Miraflor region of Nicaragua.
The Miraflor Foundation
4 Glencoe Road
Sheffield
S2 2S
01604 457 921
boa97crh@yahoo.com

and in the United States:
NicaNet: the US Nicaragua Network
www.nicanet.org