If you are interested in French, particularly Breton, culture, food, language, countryside or simply in making new friends, you might like to find out more about us. We are twinned with the small holiday and farming village of Brignogan-Plages on the Brittany coast about 25 miles west of the ferry port of Roscoff . The association has been operating for over 10 years and has members from the area around Breage, Praa Sands, Germoe, Ashton, Godolphin and Carl een but some members live outside this area and have chosen to join because of an interest in this area of Brittany. We have annual exchange visits, alternating between us visiting Brignogan and our Breton friends visiting us.

The general idea of twinning is to set up a relationship between similar communities in two countries, in our case small villages with farming, fishing and holiday interests, so that people can get to know each other, form friendships and enjoy cultural and social exchanges. Normally, each host community will provide accommodation in members’ houses and organise catering and entertainment during the visit. We try to make each other welcome in our normal environments and activities and so it’s not expensive to participate in the Twinning Association.

Membership is £6 per year for individuals and £12 for families.

We have fund raising activities (pub quizzes, barn dances, barbecues and so on) to finance the hospitality - but these are usually good fun in themselves and are part of the enjoyment of being in the Association. We also pay our own ferry fares when going to France but, as we get very good reductions for being a Twinning Association, this is also not expensive.

It doesn’t matter how old you are (we have members from 2 years old to senior citizens), whether you speak French or not or even whether you can provide accommodation, all that matters is that you are interested in meeting people and sharing hospitality with them.