Scrumpstock is coming to Exmouth

On Friday 15 May at 5pm the Mayor of Exmouth will announce cider festival, Scrumpstock, for a weekend of festivities at Exmouth Rugby Club. Exmouth’s Town Crier will also be in attendance.

Exmouth’s Mayor Bill Nash says: “Exmouth Town Council is dedicated to support interest, festival and leisure activities for residents and visitors alike in Exmouth.  We welcome the Scrumpstock Festival here starting on the 15th May at the Exmouth Rugby Club and wish it every success".

Adults attending the festival can bring under 18 year-olds in for free to enjoy puppet shows by Rattlebox Theatre, one featuring a pirate nun, face painting, bubbles, games stalls, music, food and soft drinks.

To support young adults over the age of 18, Scrumpstock is benefitting Devon based charity, the Snooky Trust, which was set up in memory of charity founder Caz Steffens’ brother Chris Snook, who died aged 27, and the charity is run from one unique shop in Dawlish.

Following the severe storms in early 2014, The Snooky Trust worked with Dawlish Town Council to help 46 people who had to flee their destroyed seafront homes and were left with just the clothes in which they were standing. Caz said she was overwhelmed and humbled by people bringing food, toiletries, clothing and bedding into the shop in Queen Street, Dawlish.  

The roster of diverse musical acts performing at the festival has been completed with time set aside for jam sessions on the Saturday and Sunday for festival-goers who want to make their own music.

Just confirmed are folk pop indie band Bonsai Pirates from Bournemouth, Boy Le Monti from North Dorset who play old skool ska and rocksteady, Jamaican dance music of the sixties, and Whack Turkey from South Wales, whose music and live show is known as The Rapture.

In terms of food there will be Devon’s own Westaways, famed for their gourmet pork sausages in freshly baked rolls. Westaway’s Managing Director, Charles Baughan says there will also be, “West Country whirls which have recently been shortlisted as the 2015 Britain’s Best New Sandwich, and for the true sausage connoisseur we will have our celebrated Hogs and Groats Puddings in Baps.”

Fans of pies and pasties will find Chunk of Devon from nearby Ottery St Mary, with varieties including steak, chicken, sausage and ham as well as their award-winning roasted vegetable pasty.

Tickets are still available on www.scrumpstock.co.uk