APTA is the Adastral Park Twinning Association. It is open to all employees and former employees in the Ipswich area as well as employees of other companies with offices at Adastral Park.

Twinning is all about exchange visits and getting to know foreign cultures and languages. It’s a great way of making friends in other countries. People take part for all sorts of different reasons, but the original reason twinning started was to bring people together from different countries after WWII to help make war less likely in future.

APTA is twinned with France Telecom’s Amiens section in France, and Deutsche Telecom’s Darmstadt section in Germany. We have regular exchange visits, alternating each year, such that each year we travel to either France or Germany once and act as hosts once.

Find out more on the website or contact Mark Kempton.