Author: Richard Millwood

  • A French Wine Tasting

    A French Wine Tasting

    Members, family and friends are invited to join us on Saturday 19th April 2025 from 2.30pm to 5.00pm.

    Edwin Taylor is the proprietor of ‘Taylor Wines’ a Brentwood business selling wines & providing wine tasting sessions.

    Brentwood/Montbazon Town Twinning Association has been offered a fundraising French wine tasting event plus 10% discount to attendees on any wines purchased at the event.

    The initial tasting event can accommodate a group of 16.

    Should demand exceed capacity further events will be planned and dates advertised.

    £30 per person (6 French wines plus cheeseboard)

    Taylor Wines, 20 Crown Street , Brentwood , CM14 4BA

    Please note tastings are on the first floor of the premises.

    To book (by 12th April 2025):

    1. Make an online bank transfer to Brentwood/Montbazon Town Twinning Association for the relevant amount as follows:
    2. Use Wine tasting as the reference for payment
    3. Sort code 40-13-22
    4. Account 41348930.
    5. Email Graham Lacey at membership.brentwoodfrench@gmail.com with the names of each person in your  group.
  • Soirée Ciné-Crêpes

    Soirée Ciné-Crêpes

    Brentwood Montbazon Town Twinning Association and Brentwood Arts Cinema Club invite members, family and friends to an evening of crêpes and cinema on Saturday 8 March 2025.

    We will be screening the romantic comedy film ‘Le Fabuleux Destin d’Amélie Poulain’ ( Amélie ) with English subtitles. In this quirky 2001 comedy, the shy Amélie’s quest to bring happiness to others leads her on a journey to true love. 

    As it is shortly after Shrove Tuesday ( pancake day) on 4 March, we shall be indulging in pancakes.

    St Peters Church, Claughton Way, Hutton, CM13 1JS

    Crêpes & tea/coffee at 7pm,

    Film at 8pm

    £9 per person

    To book (By 1st March 2025):

    1. Make an online bank transfer to Brentwood/Montbazon Town Twinning Association for the relevant amount as follows:
    2. use Film Night as the reference for payment
    3. Sort code 40-13-22
    4. Account 41348930
    5. Email Graham Lacey at membership.brentwoodfrench@gmail.com with the names of each person in your group.
  • Fête des Rois Celebration

    Fête des Rois Celebration

    Saturday 11 January 2025
    7.00 for 7.30

    The Belli Centre

    St Peter’s Church, South Weald, CM14 5QJ

    Ample parking

    Lamb Tagine & Couscous

    (Vegetarian option available)

    Gallette des Rois

    Bring your own drinks and glasses

    Raffle – Wall Quiz

    £17.50 per person

    To book (by 3 January)

    • Make an online bank transfer to Brentwood/Montbazon Town Twinning Association for the relevant amount as follows:
      • Sort code 40-13-22
      • Account 41348930
      • Use Fête des Rois as the reference for payment
    • Email Graham Lacey at membership.brentwoodfrench@gmail.com with the names of each person in your group and any requests for the vegetarian option.
  • Pre-festive Event for Members

    Pre-festive Event for Members

    Saturday 7 December 2024.

    If you’d like to come, please join the association first and check for availability by emailing: membership.brentwoodfrench@brentwoodmontbazon .

    3.00 to 5.00 pm.


    Come along to socialise and enjoy some Festive Fare.
    £5 per person.

  • Talk by Lucy Lewis

    Talk by Lucy Lewis

    Wednesday, 2nd October 2024.

    The first female bomb disposal expert.

    7.15 for 7.30 start.

    The Bardswell Social Club.
    Bardswell Close, Brentwood, CM14 4TJ.

    Ample parking.
    RAFFLE.
    £9.50pp, including a finger buffet; drinks from the bar.

    TO BOOK (By 25th September 2024):
    Make an online bank transfer to Brentwood/Montbazon Town Twinning Association for the relevant amount as
    follows:

  • Quiz night April 2024

    Derek and Sue Kortlandt – the winning table’s leaders!

    A happy evening was spent in the Brentwood School’s Vincent Room on Friday 26 April, tackling a fiendish set of questions and a challenging puzzle page of ‘dingbats’ – visual clues to well known phrases – which kept us going up to the end. Six tables of the brightest minds in Brentwood went head-to-head to answer questions on a wide range of topics, ably presented.

    Derek and Sue Kortlandt’s table won the quiz, but only by one point over their arch rivals. The prize was a bottle of wine each and the right to brag about it all year!