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 ►
24.11.2025 / 12:48 | Aktualizováno: 24.11.2025 / 14:43
The Consulate General of the Czech Republic in Manchester would like to inform you about a two-day electronic auction for the sale of Štiřín Chateau, which will take place on 10. - 11. December 2025. Further information can be found in the… 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 ►
