Here’s our newsletter for December 2025 / January 2026. It’s a bumper 20 pages of news, features and photographs. We hope you enjoy it. And please share with others who you think may be interested.

We’re delighted to welcome Sharon Race as the new Coordinator of Newcastles of the World, from 1 December. Not that she’s new to our alliance – as her message below shows.

“I’m thrilled to be appointed as the new Coordinator for Newcastles of the World.
Having been involved as both a member and conference attendee, I’ve already experienced the warmth, creativity, and shared pride that connect our global family of Newcastles— I’m looking forward to helping to strengthen those ties.
My background is in project coordination: arts and cultural programming, community engagement, and stand alone events. I’ve worked across charities, creative industries, and public-sector partnerships, building and executing initiatives that focus on supporting ideas, bringing groups together, and letting people shine.
I’m also a writer and film maker – you can view my short vlog-style films of the conferences in Nové Hrady, and, more recently, Jaunpils on You Tube!
I’m excited about expanding opportunities for collaboration, cultural exchange, and youth involvement, ensuring more people from our Newcastles feel part of the network, so that we’ll see more exchanges, more shared projects, and more opportunities for people of all ages to get involved. Newcastles of the World has huge potential. If you have an idea, a project, or simply want to connect, please get in touch. newcastles@sharonrace.co.uk Happy Holidays to all and here’s to Newcastles of the World in 2026!”

sharon@sharonrace.co.uk

Here’s our newsletter for October – November 2025. Sixteen pages, full of news, features and photos of “Newcastles” around the globe, including three pages of photos from our 2025 conference in Jaunpils, Latvia in August. We hope you enjoy reading it – please share around your own contacts.

We hope you will enjoy reading our latest newsletter – 11 pages of news, features and photos from “Newcastles” around the world.

We hope you’ll enjoy reading our latest newsletter – 12 pages with over 50 news and feature items and more than 100 photographs. Please share !

AN INVITATION FROM JAUNPILS, LATVIA

Dear friends,

With great excitement we send you an invitation to the Newcastles of The World  Alliance Conference 2025, which will take place from 8-15 August in Latvia, in our Newcastle – Jaunpils.

The program of the event and important information is on this link: https://newcastlesoftheworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/newcastles-of-the-world_jaunpils_2025-program.pdf

If you have any questions, feel free to contact the conference organising team and they will be happy to answer.

If at all possible, could municipalities let Jaunpils know the likely number of delegates from their town by May 1st, also those individuals who plan to join us who will not be part of an official municipal delegation – all are welcome.

Send information with the approximate number of persons and any special accommodation needs to the director of Jaunpils castle, Kristine Liepina, by e-mail kristine.liepina@jaunpilspils.lv.

We look forward to meeting each of you!

Here are twelve pages of news, features and photos about our “Newcastles” around the world. We hope you enjoy reading the newsletter, and, through it, we send all good wishes for Christmas and the New Year.

Here are twelve pages of news, features and photos about our “Newcastles” around the world. We hope you enjoy reading the newsletter, and, through it, we send all good wishes for Christmas and the New Year!

Dear friends

We’re pleased to issue our latest Newcastles of the World newsletter – our 50th ! We hope you will enjoy reading it – 20 pages of news, features and photographs from around the globe.

Here is our latest newsletter – 15 pages of news and features, 60+ stories, 100+ photos. We hope you enjoy reading it – please share, if you do!