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Wooden Spoon & Exeter Foundation Christmas Lunch

Event Date: 
09/12/2016 - 12:00pm to 6:30pm
Venue: 
Sandy Park

The Children’s Charity of Rugby, Wooden Spoon, and the Chiefs’ Charity, the Exeter Foundation, have joined forces to deliver a new Christmas Lunch with great food and excellent entertainment.

Taking place at Sandy Park on Friday 9th December, the event will include a three-course festive lunch, a guest speaker and comedian plus comperes former Chief Chris Bentley and former Bath and England player David Trick.

Tickets for this event are £55 and can be booked by contacting either the Wooden Spoon or the Exeter Foundation – devon@woodenspoon.org.uk or events@sandypark.co.uk

Rootin’ Tootin’ Fun at Exeter 7s

Saddle up for a rootin’ tootin’ day of fun when Sandy Park hosts the Mitsubishi Motors Exeter 7s this summer.

Fans are invited to wear their best Wild West outfits and give the players a traditional Chiefs welcome, with a twist.

Exeter’s posse will be headed up by Chiefs head of commercial John (Toy Story) Woody Wood and his glamorous assistant Christine (The Kid) Bentos Bentley.

The event takes place at Sandy Park on the weekend of 9th/10th July 2016 with Saturday being designated Wild West Day! Doors open at 10am.

Woody urged fans to make it an event to...

All you need to know about the RWC Fanzone

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Wed, 09/16/2015 - 8:43pm

Watching the matches and soaking up the atmosphere is going to be possible for everyone, even if you don’t have a ticket for the matches at Sandy Park, England or any other match.

Come and join in for FREE at the Exeter Fanzone. Located in Northernhay Gardens it will show live matches on a big screen, have a variety of events and entertainment for fans and families, a wide range of food stalls and a tournament buzz guaranteed. For days when Rugby World Cup 2015 matches are not being shown within Exeter Fanzone, ticketed events are being planned. A spectacular opening and closing...

Details of RWC Exeter Fanzone revealed

Details of the Fanzone that will be set up in Exeter’s Northernhay gardens during the Rugby World Cup have been revealed.

City council officials have told the Exeter Daily that it will be open for 13 dates opening as early as 10am for some games and closing as late as 11.30pm for others.

Alcohol will be sold from 11am to 11pm (10.30pm on Sundays) .

The dates are as follows:

Friday 18th September 1700 – 2300 Saturday 26th September 1200 – 2330 Tuesday 29th September 1100 - 2330

Saturday 3rd October 1200 – 2330 Wednesday 7th October 1530 – 2300...

Exeter Chiefs' Chris Bentley crowned omelette champ

Authored by KirkHills
Posted: Wed, 04/29/2015 - 10:00am

Eight business people from around Exeter took part in the Kirk Hills Omelette Challenge, the second year that it’s run at the Exeter Festival of South West Food and Drink.

The Challenge was judged by Michael Caines MBE who showed the contestants how it should be done with a time of 28 seconds. Paul Nero from Radio Exe was compere for the event.

Keith Biggs from OTB Eveling was defending champion and looked like he would win again this year with the best time in the initial round. However there was an ‘egg off’ between Keith and the second fastest Chris Bentley from Exeter...

Chris victorious in Omelette Challenge

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Mon, 04/27/2015 - 10:32am

Eight business people from around Exeter took part in the Kirk Hills Omelette Challenge, the second year that it’s run at the Exeter Festival of South West Food and Drink.

The Challenge was judged by Michael Caines MBE who showed the contestants how it should be done with a time of 28 seconds. Paul Nero from Radio Exe was compere for the event.

Keith Biggs from OTB Eveling was defending champion and looked like he would win again this year with the best time in the initial round. However there was an ‘egg off’ between Keith and the second fastest Chris Bentley from Exeter...

Baxter's team management secrets revealed

Exeter Chiefs head coach Rob Baxter was the special guest at an event which celebrated the launch of a new business magazine for Devon.

Business and Professional Life is a quality, quarterly publication partnered by a daily digital platform.

The new initiative is the result of a link-up between Archant, the publishers of Devon Life, and The Daily UK, which owns two citizen journalism websites, The Exeter Daily and The Plymouth Daily.

It is a ground-breaking alliance and thought to be the first time in the UK that an independent digital publisher has joined forces...

'Hunt for a Chief' with Radio Exe

Two Exeter Chiefs rugby players, Alex Brown and Carl Rimmer, will be hidden in a secret location in the city on Wednesday 25th March, as part of a competition launched by Exeter Chiefs and Britannia Lanes, ‘How’ Find Your Pow Wow Friends. Fans will need to decipher clues to work out where the props are placed and be in with a chance of winning a host of goodies, including tickets to a match and a signed shirt and ball.

Clues will be read out on Radio Exe during their breakfast show and daytime show, with picture clues posted across the radio stations and Chiefs’ Twitter and...