Welcome to the Anglo-Swiss Club of Locarno!

The Anglo-Swiss Club of Locarno (ASCL) was founded in 1934 to promote good relations between Swiss and English-speaking people. We now have become very international with members from all countries. Quite amazing!

The ASCL is mainly a social club, which helps people meet each other, enjoy each other’s company and, most importantly, speak English, the language of the Club.

The ASCL does this through a programme of several events throughout the year. Rather than specialising in any particular type of activity, the ASCL tries to give it's members as wide a choice of activities as possible. Cultural outings, walks, lectures, lunches and dinners! We celebrate in style!  Halloween, Fish & Chips, morning coffees and great aperitifs.  We try to hold events within a reasonable radius of Locarno, rather than going farther afield.

The Club also has its own library of books in English. The library is run by volunteer members and is open on coffee mornings during the Club season. 

The Club is open to members from all backgrounds and ages, and the only two conditions of membership are to be socially congenial and have a reasonable command of English.

We try to combine the best of Swiss, Anglo and international cultures - the good organisation and frugality of the Swiss with the more relaxed, less formal Anglo approach.

For further information, programmes and application forms please contact:

Stefanie Bertoneri Amrein
President


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Prosecco and Panettone, or coffee and tea
10:00
Date : Saturday, 7th January
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South Pacific
15:00
Date : Wednesday, 11th January
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Swiss Railways SBB, Pollegio
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Invitation to an evening with Andreas Nüssel, Managing Director of Silversea Cruises.

Andreas will be talking to us about his expedition to Antarctica. He will be showing many wonderful photos and it will be a visual feast!

Antarctica is an environment of exquisite isolation, rich wildlife & majestic topography. See glaciers, pristine snow, endlessly deep, blue waters & icebergs. 

Andreas Nuessel
Born in Bavaria (Germany) Andreas began his career in 1995 and has been involved with cruising since 2004. After various management positions at the shipping companies Peter Deilmann, Sea Cloud Cruises and Regent Seven Seas Cruises he has been back with Silversea Cruises as Managing Director for Europe since March 2020.

Please attend our opening dinner on Friday, 24 February, 6pm

Grotto Broggini
Via San Materno 18
6616 Losone

There is public transportation
  Bus Nr. 7 bus stop "Posta Losone"
  Bus Nr. 1 bus stop "Mercato Cattori"

5 minutes on foot from the bus stops to the Grotto. There is plenty of parking space!

Please register soonest with Stefanie:
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Before 2022 comes to an end, I would like to share with you two particular sentences delivered as part of the Christmas message by His Holiness Pope Francis. 

I believe these two sentences convey a very strong message and it is irrelevant if you profess a belief or not, ultimately it is just the naked truth

  • Our time is experiencing a grave famine of peace
  • Our world is severely sick with indifference

 I am sure we all try in our own special ways to help whenever and wherever we can. We can't save the world single-handedly - unfortunately.
But...

this is why, I believe that our club, which was founded in 1934 and is just on the cusp of turning 90 plays such an important role in our lives. 

Last year when there was a severe lack of antibiotics in a Caribbean country we purchased and donated the medications.

This year at the beginning of the on-going Ukraine/Russia conflict we donated to the UNCHR.

A fabulous, fun and absolutely wonderful pre-Xmas coffee morning
Thank you to all the cake & biscuit bakers, to the coffee/tea brigade and, of course, to the members who joined and made this such an enjoyable event
 

"Let's treasure the moment"

We have had to get used to being very flexible and adapting to the many changes that have been thrown at us all during the last few years.

Once again I personally feel that we are still living with challenges but every year when the festive season approaches and I see the twinkle of many lights and candles, the festive decorations in people's homes and in the shop windows, I have hope!

Where there's hope, there's life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again.
(Anne Frank)

I would like to thank all the members who have attended our many events. Your attendance is what motivates us and which gives us great pleasure and joy. So THANK YOU from my heart!

I would also like to thank the committee members who dedicated so much of their time and who organized the many walks and outings, lectures and also who keep our finances in order!

And, of course, the members who also helped us with new ideas - such as our Musical afternoons in the clubroom - the first will be on Wednesday, 14 December 2022, 3pm - It's a wonderful life! Thank you Bob Ronay!

a new and "feel good" activity for our club members!

A big THANK YOU to our club member Bob Ronay who had this great idea!

We will be offering a selection of timeless

"Oldies but Goldies"

musicals in our clubroom.  Snacks and drinks also offered by the club.

Please register for the event with Stefanie: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 
Due to our limited seating capacity we have 20 seats available on a "first come - first served basis".

Please join us!

Very best wishes

Stefanie

President
Anglo-Swiss Club Locarno

So far this year within 10 months including a June, July and August summer break we have enjoyed 18 different events! Coffee mornings, aperitifs, walks, outings, lectures, dinners.  An abundance of different activities! Each activity was very well attended and we are happy and pleased that our club members continue to attend and enjoy each other’s company.

I am rather sad to have to write that it is impossible to find volunteers and I ask myself if, in future, it will be possible to offer so many different activities, if we do not get some much needed help from our club members. 

We were looking forward to a great Halloween Party on Monday, 31 October 2022 in the clubroom. Of course the clubroom would have been decorated like in 2019 but this year, after two years because of Covid, when we decided we could celebrate again, there were no offers to help us decorate. We therefore cancelled the event.

2022 is indeed a momentous year.  As most of you know our club was founded in 1934 by a group of British citizens and was at that time called the "English Club". We still have the founding document in our archives and I have attached a copy for those of you who are interested. We were for a number of years looked after by the British Embassy in Berne and we also received invitations to celebrate Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II birthday party, which was held in the grounds of the Embassy. A few years ago we received notification that the Embassy did not have the funds or the personnel to "look after us", so our link to the Embassy and to the UK are not that strong as they used to be. We have in the past few years indeed become a very international club with members from all continents! Quite amazing!

Please join us at the Hotel La Palma au Lac, Muralto:


Thursday, 20  October 2022 at 6pm

for a special evening/recital.

 We are delighted to welcome

Victor Vertunni di Albanella.

Victor is a London born actor and singer-songwriter and educator, now living in Italy. After graduating in theatre studies at the University of East Anglia he worked on a variety of theatre productions before co-founding the international theatre ensemble Theatre of Eternal Values. Victor comes across as an old musical soul; speaking and singing from some deep ancestral or universal memory that has never required remaking.