LEADING Exeter health and wellbeing charity, CITY Community Trust, is raising its profile in the business community with the appointment of new development manager Craig Townsend.
The organisation, which is Exeter City Football Club’s partner charity and was formerly known as Football in the Community, has recently undergone a name change to more accurately reflect the work it is delivering across the greater Exeter area.
The charity provides a range of activities to people of all ages, focussed on health, education, wellbeing and physical activity. With the appointment of...
Exeter City Football Club’s first-team players brought early Christmas magic to the children and teenagers on Bramble Ward at the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital, by paying them a special festive visit.
The players delivered dozens of bears, toys, calendars, footballs, signed merchandise, selection boxes and chocolates to the young patients who are sadly spending the festive period on the ward.
The players who visited the ward were captain Jordan Moore-Taylor, Dean Moxey, Jake Taylor, Lloyd James, Craig Woodman, Ryan Brunt and Robbie Simpson.
Players from Exeter City Football Club will be donning their Sugar Smart Exeter t-shirts this Saturday (November 25), for their warm up before their league match against Accrington Stanley.
Sugar Smart Exeter is an ambitious campaign to encourage the community to come together in tackling the amount of sugar people in Exeter consume. Exeter City Football Club led the way in this initiative and were the first organisation to make Sugar Smart pledges in Exeter. Some of their pledges include stocking healthier food and drink in their outlets, reducing sugary food and drinks,...
A strike from Lee Holmes three minutes from time earned Exeter City a battling point away at Mansfield Town.
The Grecians had fallen behind to Kane Hemmings first-half strike and needed a couple of goalline clearances from Dean Moxey to stay in the game before Mansfield-born Holmes struck late.
City were forced into one change from the side that lost to Port Vale last time out as Pierce Sweeney was ruled out through food poisoning.
That saw West Bromwich Albion loanee Kane Wilson given his first league start for the club....
Exeter City slipped to their first league defeat of the season as they lost 2-0 away from home against Coventry City at the Ricoh Arena.
An unfortunate Troy Brown own goal and a late finish from Devon Kelly-Evans secured victory for a Coventry side who created a host of chances.
Despite the Grecians’ attempts to rally from behind, they were unable to find their way back into the match despite some late chances. City boss, Paul Tisdale, named the same starting eleven for the sixth consecutive match with the Grecians keen to continue...
Striker Jayden Stockley says he wants to be a big part of Exeter City’s future having put pen to paper on a deal at St James Park.
The 23-year-old striker, who spent the second half of the 2015/16 season on loan at City, has signed from Scottish Premier League side Aberdeen for a club record fee.
Stockley, who scored 10 goals in 21 starts in his previous spell at the club, said once he knew Paul Tisdale was interested in signing him there was no other club he wanted to join.
“As soon as I became aware that there was a chance of me leaving (Aberdeen), I had a...
The Exeter City Supporters Trust has welcomed a new grant from the National Lottery to help create a museum in and around St James Park.
The funding bid, which was submitted by the University of Exeter working in partnership with the Trust’s History Group, has been successful in attracting grants of £63,700 with the main contribution coming from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) with a £50,700 grant made possible by National Lottery players.
The museum will build on the findings made while researching the History of St James Park project, also funded by the HLF, which was...
Dean Moxey has rejoined Exeter City following an eight-year absence from St James Park.
Dean, born in Exeter, broke into the Grecians first team in October 2003 and played around 200 games for the club as City gained promotion from the Football Conference to League One.
However, in the summer of 2009 he left to join Championship side Derby County, before gaining promotion to the Premier League with Crystal Palace in 2013. He left the Eagles in 2014 for a three-year spell at Bolton Wanderers.
However, after his contract expired at the Macron Stadium, Dean admits to...
EXETER City supporters will have the opportunity to own a historic piece of their beloved club when work starts this summer on a new grandstand at St James Park.
Around £3.5million worth of improvements are scheduled at the ground over the coming year. At the centre of this work will be the demolition of the Old Grandstand, which is sponsored by Stagecoach, and is the oldest structure at the ground, dating back to 1926.
The football club is working with Exeter City Council, which owns the stand, to give fans the opportunity to buy seats before it is demolished.
Exeter City midfielder Matt Oakley has announced that he will be retiring at the end of this season.
Matt, who has played nearly 200 games for the club over a five-and-a-half-year spell, began his career at Southampton and made his debut for the Saints towards the end of the 1994/95 season.
The 39-year-old midfielder has had a long and distinguished playing career. He played for Southampton for over a decade in the Premier League and guided them to the FA Cup final in 2003, before moving on to Derby County where he helped captain the Rams to promotion via the play-offs in...
