View downstream along the Seine. Photo by Herbert Frank via Flickr cc by 2.0

Looking ahead

July 2025

August 2025

Cringleford International Junior Football Tournament

For the 2024 tournament, 40 youngsters and their coaches came to Norwich from Rouen. They clearly had a great time, since this year 60 are coming! NNRFA members will be helping out on the day.

They will be playing on Saturday and Sunday, 2–3 August, and travelling home on Monday 4 August following a reception at City Hall in the morning.   

Christine Wilson Pétanque and Picnic in the Park

We meet in Eaton Park on Sunday 17 August, from 10am to 12 noon (date TBC - please check back nearer the time) 

Looking further ahead

2026 ...

... will include (check back for dates nearer the time):

January: our annual celebration of the Epiphany, French style, enjoying Galettes des Rois 

March: group walks

May: our Rouen visitors will come to visit us. Planning is under way and we are looking forward to welcoming them. 

... and even further ahead

2027: The year of the Normans, the millennium of William the Conqueror's birth. 

Planning has started for massive international celebrations, involving the British Council and the Institut Français. The voice of Norwich is represented by the City Council and the Forum; Triorca; Marion Catlin; Prof Trevor Davies and Gennadiy Ivanov of the Climate Change and Art projects who created the Norwich Mural in the City Hall council chamber. 

It is very much hoped that Norfolk Museums and the Cathedral will also be involved. Also that Norwich junior football clubs might join Rouen footballers for an international tournament in Normandy involving also other Norman-related countries,where they came from and where they went: Norway, Sweden, Ireland, Italy (Sicily)...

Also being suggested are events in Normandy, to include folk dancing, choirs, orchestras, pétanque! Watch this space!