Haywards Heath Twinning Association
Upcoming Events
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JULY
Summer BBQ - Sunday 24 July
SEPTEMBER
Town Day Café Bonstein - Saturday 10 September
Bondues Walking Weekend - 23-25 September
OCTOBER
Autumn Walk and Pub Lunch - date TBC
NOVEMBER
Bondues twinners to visit Haywards Heath - 4-6 November
DECEMBER
Christmas Party - date TBC
Past Highlights
May 2022
Bondues visit
We were an excited group of 9 who set off around 11am on Friday 6 May. After such a long break it seemed almost unbelievable that we were actually going back to Bondues again. On the Friday evening, the whole group gathered together at Pascale and Guy-Claude’s home. We were treated to al fresco Aperol spritz in the sunshine and wonderful food prepared by Pascale and all the hosts. In French when everyone brings a dish like this it's called a ‘buffet espagnol’. On the Saturday we were taken to Bruges for the day. This is a most beautiful city, also known as the Venice of the North. Sunday morning left us time for an interesting visit to a local exhibition by François Houtin, a well-known French printmaker. It was a fabulous trip and we are very grateful to our hosts who made such a wonderful effort on our behalf and made us feel so welcome. We look forward to reciprocating and welcoming our Bondues friends on a visit to us in Haywards Heath next time.
Sepetmber 2021
Cafe Bonstein at Haywards Heath Town Day
The Twinning Assocation once again hosted the successful Café Bonstein at the Haywards Heath Town Day. With glorious weather and a mouth-watering array of home-made cakes baked by our Members, it was a hugely enjoyable event for everyone who attended.
February 2020
Interview on BBC Radio Sussex!
Haywards Heath Twinning Association was featured on Mark Carter's Saturday Breakfast show on BBC Radio Sussex on 1 February. Mark interviewed the Deputy Mayor of our French twin town Bondues Alain Fauvarque and the Association's very own Chairperson Irene Balls. You can listen to the interview on BBC Sounds by following the below link (available until 25 February 2020). The interview starts around 2 hours 47 minutes:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p080dv4t
You can also see the photos that Mark took of Bondues on BBC Sussex's Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/BBCSussex/
October 2019
Musical Evening with Support of Haywards Heath Town Council
This was a truly international musical evening with the support of Haywards Heath Town Council. The Anything Goes duo provided fabulous entertainment with a mix of English, French and German popular songs. It was wonderful that so many of our friends from Bondues and Taunstein came over to Haywards Heath and shared the evening with us.
August 2019
Traunstein's Twinning Anniversary
A large group travelled from Haywards Heath to Traunstein and were looked after exceptionally well by our friends. A spectacular event!
January 2019
Bondues Jumelage (Twinning) AGM
Members of Haywards Heath Twinning experienced the customary warm welcome from our friends in Bondues during their AGM weekend at the start of February. An interesting programme of activities was enjoyed. This photo was taken during the visit to the Carrière Wellington
in Arras, which is a network of tunnels dug under the city by New Zealand troops during the First World War.
September 2018
Twinning Celebration in Bondues
Twinning members enjoyed a marvellous weekend of festivities in Bondues, celebrating 20 years of close twinning friendships including the inauguration of of the Square d'Haywards Heath. Our friends in Bondues were fabulous hosts and as usual provided superb food and entertainment.
September 2018
Haywards Heath Town Day
What a fantastic day we had at Town Day in Victoria Park. Café Bonstein, HHTA's pop up continental style Café, was a great hit with the public. There was scarcely a crumb of Apfelstrudel or solitary coffee bean left behind at the end of the day. Customers were impressed by the delicious home baked cakes and thanked the young student linguists from Oathall College who had served them with charm and smiles.
Celebrating out Twinning Anniversaries
HHTA celebrated 25 and 20 years respectively of twinning with Traunstein in Germany and Bondues in France. Celebrations included a gala dinner with the mayors of all three twinning towns in Borde Hill.
To mark these anniversaries we set up a community project to create three textile wall hangings, one for each Town Hall; the theme was ‘Friendship’. Several schools in Haywards Heath contributed to the project and created their own 'friendship' designs celebrating connections with Traunstein and Bondues.
Mayors reception at the Town Hall. Traunstein and Bondues were each given a wall hanging
Our Celebration Cake!
One beautiful and creative example of students creativity
in the textile project with the theme of 'friendship'
