26.10.2026 / 10:32 | Aktualizováno: 26.10.2026 / 11:12
On 22 October, Consul General David Frous officially opened the RETIGO Czech Beer Day 2026. Ten Czech companies from the brewing and hospitality sectors presented their products and services to prospective customers and business partners at Old… more ►
22.10.2026 / 10:23 | Aktualizováno: 22.10.2026 / 10:46
Members of the Czech community and all friends of the Czech Republic are cordially invited to meet Václav Bartuška, Ambassador of the Czech Republic to the United Kingdom, and take part in a discussion to be held at 3:00 pm on Sunday, 15… more ►
19.10.2026 / 12:03 | Aktualizováno: 19.10.2026 / 12:13
On 15 October, Chetham’s Library in the historic heart of Manchester hosted a reception marking the anniversary of the establishment of independent Czechoslovakia, as well as Czech Statehood Day. The event brought together Consul General… more ►
13.10.2026 / 11:14 | Aktualizováno: 19.10.2026 / 12:14
A delegation from the Czech Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs visited Leeds on 7 October, accompanied by the Consul General. During the visit, the delegation met with the Lord Mayor of Leeds, Stephen Holroyd, representatives from the… more ►
01.10.2026 / 14:16 | Aktualizováno: 01.10.2026 / 14:26
Consul General David Frous visited Scotland’s two largest cities, Edinburgh and Glasgow, together with Ambassador Václav Bartuška on 22 and 23 September. Most of the programme focused on scientific and academic institutions and on… more ►
16.09.2026 / 15:53 | Aktualizováno: 16.09.2026 / 16:03
With the support of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic and in the presence of Ambassador Václav Bartuška and Consul General David Frous, an exceptional Czech Studies seminar will take place at the University of Glasgow on 23… more ►
14.09.2026 / 12:30 | Aktualizováno: 14.09.2026 / 12:40
Traditional gathering of members of the Czech expatriate community in Northern England who focus on activities for the youngest Czech boys and girls in the region took place at the residence of the Consul General on 12 September to mark the… more ►
06.08.2026 / 11:00 | Aktualizováno: 06.08.2026 / 11:34
The Consulate General supported the 41st edition of the Lake District Music summer festival. During the opening days of the festival at the turn of July and August, the unique surroundings of the Lake District echoed with works by Bedřich… more ►
20.07.2026 / 14:05 | Aktualizováno: 20.07.2026 / 14:11
Two rising stars of contemporary Czech poetry, Ondřej Hrabal and Šimon Leitgeb, concluded their tour of the British Isles in Leeds on 17 July. The tour was supported by the Czech Literary Centre, as well as the Czech Consulate General in… more ►
15.06.2026 / 11:35 | Aktualizováno: 19.06.2026 / 11:34
On 12 June, the Consulate General handed over archival materials from the estate of the prominent Czechoslovak architect Ernst Wiesner to the National Heritage Institute. The materials were donated to the Czech Republic by Mr Timothy Wilkinson.… more ►
08.06.2026 / 11:41 | Aktualizováno: 20.07.2026 / 11:45
A Promising Czech poet Anna Řezníčková began her first visit to the United Kingdom on June 5 with an author’s reading at the Consulate General in Manchester. In addition to her poetry, the evening program—titled Until What Is… more ►
14.05.2026 / 10:08 | Aktualizováno: 15.05.2026 / 12:08
The Czech Ambassador to the United Kingdom, Václav Bartuška, together with Consul General David Frous, visited Lancaster University and the multipurpose nuclear complex Sellafield on the west coast of Cumbria on 11–12 May. Discussions with… more ►
28.04.2026 / 12:54 | Aktualizováno: 29.04.2026 / 12:40
Consul General David Frous visited the Isle of Man on 25 and 26 April. On this occasion, he met with the island’s Lieutenant Governor, John Lorimer, who represents His Majesty King Charles III in this Crown Dependency, and held talks with… more ►
14.04.2026 / 12:46 | Aktualizováno: 14.04.2026 / 12:52
Manchester will once again mark Europe Day this year with a showcase of contemporary European short films. On Thursday, 7th May at 6:00 pm, the Instituto Cervantes Manchester on Deansgate will host the second day of the EU Film Festival, which… more ►
17.02.2026 / 12:43 | Aktualizováno: 17.02.2026 / 14:36
For compatriots living abroad, we regularly organize a four-week Czech language course as part of the Programme for the Support of Czechs and the Czech Language Abroad, and we provide study stays at Czech public universities. We also organize a… more ►
22.01.2026 / 12:45 | Aktualizováno: 28.01.2026 / 12:35
On the occasion of the 136th anniversary of Ernst Wiesner’s birth, a restored grave of this prominent Brno architect was unveiled on 21 January 2026 at Allerton cemetery in Liverpool. The ceremony was led by a delegation of the South… more ►
20.01.2026 / 11:29 | Aktualizováno: 20.01.2026 / 11:32
After a break last year, teachers from Czech School Scotland once again joined the regular meeting with compatriots engaged in teaching Czech in Manchester. On Saturday, 17 January, in addition to exchanging experiences and practical insights… more ►
09.01.2026 / 11:56 | Aktualizováno: 09.01.2026 / 12:55
On the occasion of the Day of Czechs Abroad, we are continuing the tradition of occasional film Tuesdays at the Consulate General of the Czech Republic in Manchester and warmly invite compatriots and everyone for whom Czechia is either a… more ►
16.12.2025 / 10:59 | Aktualizováno: 17.12.2025 / 11:07
Lady Milena Grenfell-Baines, an extraordinary figure in the Czech expatriate community in northern England, received her first Czech passport on 12 December. At a traditional pre-Christmas gathering of leading Czech women in the region, the… more ►
09.12.2025 / 14:59 | Aktualizováno: 10.12.2025 / 11:51
The team of the Consulate general wishes merry Christmas and a prosperous year 2026 to all Czech expatriates and clients from the North of England, Scotland and Northern Ireland and to all the friends of the Czech Republic in the region .… more ►
20.10.2025 / 16:11 | Aktualizováno: 20.10.2025 / 16:17
On Thursday, 16 October, 2025, the Saul Hay Gallery in Manchester hosted a celebration marking the anniversary of the founding of independent Czechoslovakia. The event brought together Czech Consul General David Frous, Vice-Lord Lieutenant… more ►
29.09.2025 / 17:10 | Aktualizováno: 29.09.2025 / 17:13
On September 27, on the eve of St. Wenceslas Day, a special concert by Czech violin virtuoso Gabriela Demeterová and British pianist Harvey Davies took place in St. Anne’s Church in the center of Manchester, attended by Lord Mayor and… more ►
29.09.2025 / 17:05 | Aktualizováno: 20.10.2025 / 16:03
On September 26, the University of Sheffield marked the 50th anniversary of Czech language teaching in the presence of the Czech Consul General. The afternoon workshop was attended not only by current students and academic staff but also by a… more ►
22.09.2025 / 15:53 | Aktualizováno: 20.10.2025 / 16:04
Liverpool has honored the memory of four wartime heroes buried in the city’s West Derby cemetery, including two Czechoslovak and one Polish pilot who fought in the Battle of Britain. more ►
10.09.2025 / 11:16 | Aktualizováno: 10.09.2025 / 12:27
On Sunday, 7 September 2025, a memorial to honor Czechoslovak RAF pilot František Hekel was unveiled on the shore of Loch Doon in Scotland. It marks the location where he crashed in his Spitfire on 25 October 1941. The unveiling was followed… more ►
11.07.2025 / 15:53 | Aktualizováno: 20.10.2025 / 16:05
On Saturday, 5th July 2025, a traditional memorial event was held to mark the 85th anniversary of the arrival of Czechoslovak soldiers in the United Kingdom. more ►
01.07.2025 / 16:51 | Aktualizováno: 01.07.2025 / 17:03
We would like to remind expatriate associations that the deadline for submitting applications for financial grants for 2026 is approaching. Applications must be submitted by 1st August 2025, under the Program for Support of Czechs and the Czech… more ►
13.06.2025 / 12:03 | Aktualizováno: 13.06.2025 / 12:40
The Senate Commission on Compatriots Living Abroad established in the Senate of the Parliament of the Czech Republic invites representatives of Czech expatriate associations to participate in a day-long biennial conference titled "Postal Voting,… more ►
21.05.2025 / 15:21 | Aktualizováno: 21.05.2025 / 15:49
The second year of the European short film festival in Manchester took place from May 13 to May 15, 2025, as part of the Europe Day celebrations. more ►
09.05.2025 / 12:45 | Aktualizováno: 09.05.2025 / 14:01
On May 8, 2025, representatives from the Consulate General and the Czech expatriate community in Manchester gathered at the Czechoslovak Army Memorial in Cholmondeley Castle park to honor the memory of those who fell during the World War II. more ►
25.04.2025 / 11:40 | Aktualizováno: 28.04.2025 / 12:53
On 24 April 2025, in connection with the upcoming 80th anniversary of VE Day, the Czech community in Manchester and selected guests from the region remembered the Czech heroes who fought alongside the British in the Battle of Britain. more ►
20.03.2025 / 11:44 | Aktualizováno: 20.03.2025 / 12:47
Please join us on Thursday 24 April 2025 at 5:30 p. m. at the Central Library on St Peter’s Square in Manchester for a film screening of Dark Blue World, a 2001 film by Czech director Jan Svěrák, the Academy Award-winning director of Kolya… more ►
19.03.2025 / 12:50 | Aktualizováno: 20.03.2025 / 14:51
Children from 6 to 16 years of age are invited to take part in an art competition organized on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of VE Day by the Consulate General of the Czech Republic in Manchester and Czech School & Community Manchester in… more ►
14.03.2025 / 10:54 | Aktualizováno: 20.03.2025 / 15:00
On 13 and 14 March 2025, Saul Hay Gallery in Manchester and Bigglestones bookshop in Glasgow hosted one of the top Czech contemporary poets Petr Hruška and his translator Joshua Mensch. At two poetry reading evenings, they presented… more ►
04.03.2025 / 16:28 | Aktualizováno: 04.03.2025 / 16:37
The Consulate General in Manchester cordially invites you to a British-Czech poetry evening, taking place on Thursday, March 13, at 7:00 PM at Saul Hay Gallery (Castle Street, Manchester M3 4LZ). more ►
25.02.2025 / 11:27 | Aktualizováno: 03.03.2025 / 10:30
On to the initiative of the General Consulate and the local Czech school and community centre, Czech language and the Czechia as such were presented at Manchester’s Central Library in the city centre on the occasion of International Mother… more ►
31.01.2025 / 15:38 | Aktualizováno: 31.01.2025 / 16:46
On 30th January, on the occasion of Czechs Abroad Day celebrated on 4th February, the Consulate General hosted a talk with a Czech diplomat and writer Milan Jakobec. Meeting the author and reading from his latest book Bohemia a Albion… more ►
19.12.2024 / 10:45 | Aktualizováno: 19.12.2024 / 11:03
The team of the Consulate general wishes merry Christmas and a prosperous year 2025 to all Czech expatriates and clients from the North of England, Scotland and Northern Ireland and to all the friends of the Czech Republic in the region . more ►
25.11.2024 / 13:08 | Aktualizováno: 04.12.2024 / 12:34
The fall of communism in November 1989 was remembered by a week-long mid-November series of events in a number of locations in the North. From Manchester and Sheffield to Glasgow and Edinburgh memories were shared and discussed not just by Czech… more ►
23.10.2024 / 14:50 | Aktualizováno: 23.10.2024 / 16:49
The fall of communism in the Czech Republic, then part of Czechoslovakia, in November 1989 will be remembered in Manchester and in other cities in the north of the British Isles in November. A series of events, including screenings of Václav… more ►
16.10.2024 / 18:02 | Aktualizováno: 16.10.2024 / 18:04
The creation of the independent Czechoslovak state in 1918, traditionally marked as the national Day of the Czech Republic, was celebrated in the city centre of Manchester, in the historic Portico Library. The occasion was marked on Tuesday… more ►
01.10.2024 / 14:05 | Aktualizováno: 01.10.2024 / 14:09
A traditional meeting of representatives of Czech expatriot community involved in the activities of the project of Czech School without Borders in the North West of England took place at the residence of the Consul General on 28th September. more ►
30.09.2024 / 13:21 | Aktualizováno: 30.09.2024 / 15:02
On 28 September, the Consulate General in collaboration with the Czech School & Community Centre Manchester put together an event with a young Czech illustrator Karel Osoha. His drawings accompany a popular series of books by Václav Matocha… more ►
23.09.2024 / 15:31 | Aktualizováno: 01.10.2024 / 12:56
Under the auspicies of Marie Chatardová, Czech Ambassador to the United Kingdom, and in the presence of David Frous, Czech Consul General in Manchester, and with the unique background of Edinburgh’s Pianodrome, Duo Ardašev performed a… more ►
20.09.2024 / 17:03 | Aktualizováno: 20.09.2024 / 18:17
Several public appeals for help have been launched with respect to the recent devastating floods in the Czech Republic. On behalf of all those dealing with the aftermath of the disaster, the Czech Consulate General in Manchester expresses… more ►
27.02.2024 / 16:03 | Aktualizováno: 27.02.2024 / 16:11
Performance by the Bollington festival brass quintet was held in Bollington as a component of the Year of Czech Music 2024. more ►
24.02.2024 / 09:54 | Aktualizováno: 24.02.2024 / 09:58
Two years ago, Vladimir Putin launched a massive neo-colonial war against Ukraine, however, Russia's aggression has been going on for 10 years - since 2014, when its army annexed Crimea and sparked the armed conflict in eastern Ukraine. Russia's… more ►
12.02.2024 / 16:57 | Aktualizováno: 12.02.2024 / 17:05
In February 2024, the Consulate General of the Czech Republic in Manchester prepared two exhibitions to celebrate Women's Month. more ►
07.02.2024 / 16:00 | Aktualizováno: 07.02.2024 / 16:35
This article contains information on scholarships to attend the Summer Schools of Slavonic Studies, which offer intensive courses of Czech language and culture. more ►
24.01.2024 / 13:23 | Aktualizováno: 24.01.2024 / 13:37
The Schengen Information System (SIS) is the most widely used and largest information sharing system for security and border management in Europe. more ►
24.11.2023 / 15:39 | Aktualizováno: 24.11.2023 / 15:57
The 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence is an international civil society led campaign that takes place each year. It commences on 25 November, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, and ends on 10… more ►
05.10.2023 / 17:33 | Aktualizováno: 05.10.2023 / 17:39
The MSCA Cofund Action - Physics for Future (P4F) first call for postdoctoral fellowships is now open! more ►
29.06.2023 / 16:54 | Aktualizováno: 30.06.2023 / 14:49
Czechia will hold the Presidency of the Visegrad Group from 1 July 2023 to 30 June 2024. more ►
22.06.2023 / 14:06 | Aktualizováno: 22.06.2023 / 14:34
Bellová and Alex Zucker, who translated the novel into English, accepted the prestigious literary award on Thursday evening in London. more ►
11.05.2023 / 17:14 | Aktualizováno: 11.05.2023 / 17:45
Prague Spring Festival with the Czech debuts of Klaus Mäkelä and John Adams more ►
11.05.2023 / 16:15 | Aktualizováno: 11.05.2023 / 17:03
We sadly announce that the former Czech Honorary Consul of Belfast, Milan Mládek, aged 92 passed away on 4 May 2023. more ►
23.03.2023 / 14:00 | Aktualizováno: 23.03.2023 / 15:27
An evening devoted to Karel Čapek’s Letters from England after 100 years. more ►
14.03.2023 / 12:35 | Aktualizováno: 14.03.2023 / 12:39
Czechia has a new president – Petr Pavel, a former army general who has extensive experience in the military and international relations. President Pavel's inauguration ceremony took place on 9th March 2023, marking the start of his… more ►
28.02.2023 / 17:54 | Aktualizováno: 28.02.2023 / 17:56
The Czech Republic has actively been providing aid to Ukraine since the first day of Russian aggression. In addition to supplying weapons and military equipment and receiving hundreds of thousands of refugees or voluntary collections of citizens… more ►
24.02.2023 / 11:47 | Aktualizováno: 24.02.2023 / 12:32
In the first year of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Czechia has delivered dozens of tanks, combat and armoured vehicles and other heavy military systems to Ukraine. Roughly one third of the material came from the Czech Army, the rest was… more ►
24.10.2022 / 13:33 | Aktualizováno: 24.10.2022 / 13:39
The visit of three Czech poets Jitka Bret Srbová, Ondřej Lipár and Olga Stehliková will take place on 3rd – 4th November as part of the project Czech Scottish Poetry Connections, devised and produced by Literature Across Frontiers more ►
18.03.2022 / 15:19 | Aktualizováno: 18.03.2022 / 15:25
Consulate General invites you to Rock the Opera on 7 and 8 May 2022 more ►
14.02.2022 / 18:09 | Aktualizováno: 14.02.2022 / 18:12
Last weekend, compatriots around the world celebrated Day of Czechs Abroad. February 4 was approved by the government last year as a significant day to commemorate compatriots from Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia living abroad. more ►
05.10.2021 / 14:07 | Aktualizováno: 05.10.2021 / 14:11
From the 30th of September to the 1st of October, Martina Štěpánková, the Deputy Minister of Labour and Social Affairs in charge of European Funds and International Cooperation, has visited the North of England. more ►
14.09.2021 / 12:24 | Aktualizováno: 14.09.2021 / 12:29
On September 11, 2021, Consul General Ivo Losman with his wife Veronika organized a garden party in premises of their residence for the occasion of the start of the 10th academic year of the Czech School of Manchester (CSM). more ►
21.05.2021 / 16:33 | Aktualizováno: 02.07.2021 / 12:42
!!REGISTRATION ENDS 30th June 2021!! more ►
05.03.2021 / 12:57 | Aktualizováno: 22.04.2021 / 13:06
Consulate General in cooperation with the Everyman Art Gallery invite all art lovers to an exhibition of linocuts from Czech artist Pavel Piekar. more ►
11.02.2020 / 12:35 | Aktualizováno: 09.02.2021 / 13:23
On February 7, 2020, the Minister of Foreign Affairs Tomáš Petříček was welcomed by the Consulate General of the Czech Republic in Manchester. The main objective of the ministerial visit was to meet Czech citizens and students and to deepen… more ►
23.10.2019 / 18:19 | Aktualizováno: 09.01.2020 / 11:12
Studyin.cz is an official source of information on higher education in the Czech Republic. It provides essential information about the higher education system, study opportunities and student life in the Czech Republic. Find out more and visit… more ►
