Ping! returns to Exeter

Ping!, the nation’s favourite ping pong festival, will be bouncing back onto the streets of Exeter this summer for its third succesive year!

Active Devon, who coordinate the festival of ping pong in Exeter, are placing the focus for this year’s Summer long affair with table tennis on getting more people at work to pick up a bat and play.

Last year, Ping!  tables saw nearly 1.3 million visits from members of the general public nationally during the festival (which takes place between June-August) and even more are expected this summer with five new cities signed up to deliver the project.

In total, 21 towns and cities are hosting the ping pong extravaganza in 2016; table tennis tables will be popping up in parks, malls, precincts and piazzas, and in many iconic locations. 

The Bandstand on Brighton’s front; Nottingham Castle; Cambridge’s Outdoor Pool and the BBC Television Centre in London, anywhere in fact that the public already enjoy spending time is ‘fair game’ to the power of Ping!; visit the table finder to find your local hot spot at www.pingengland.co.uk

The five new cities joining the party this year are; Manchester, Barnsley, Stoke-on-Trent, Newcastle and Bournemouth, all of whom are hugely enthusiastic about introducing Ping! to their communities, while Exeter, a legacy Ping! city is looking forward to wowing the crowds again in all the many iconic city sites as well as few new exciting locations to be revealed soon.

Ping! launches officially on Friday 10th June in the seaside town of Bournemouth this year, but the Ping! excitement begins before then in Exeter with an opening event at the Exeter Business Games on 10th May.

The Ping! festival is completely free, no catches, no hidden charges – all you have to do is grab one of the bats and balls provided at the tables, find a willing opponent and get playing!
2016 – A Summer of Sport.

With the Rio Olympic and Paralympics Games taking place this summer, it is fitting that Ping!, which was born as a London 2012 legacy project, will be able to offer the public a fun sporting activity for all the family to enjoy free of charge!

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Employers are getting in on the action too, recognising that table tennis is an ideal activity to introduce at work; a happy active team makes for a healthy, productive and cohesive workforce. 

Over 120 of such businesses have already taken advantage of Loop’s ‘Beat the Boss’ packages starting at just £180 and include everything you need to play ping pong at the office; tables, bats, balls, ladder boards and knock out posters. Information about #Intheloop packages are available from Active Devon, who recently won a prize for activating the most number of workplaces with the new loop workplace packages.

Amongst the many that love table tennis, those who are already sporty feature heavily so where better to locate a table than in a community sports clubhouse? That’s why golf, cricket, hockey, rugby and tennis clubs all over the land are buying Loop tables for their Clubhouses for the benefit of their members.   There’s nothing like a spot of ping pong to level the playing field…

To find out how you can get your workplace or clubhouse #INTHELOOP visit www.keepintheloop.co.uk