The latest group of young people in Devon have taken part in a Rugby World Cup Legacy programme.
The Business Empowering Employment Programme (BEEP) gives 16-24 year olds the confidence and skills to secure jobs and training opportunities.
Eight youngsters have completed an initial two-week course run by Motiv-8sw and were presented with their certificates at a celebration event on Friday (Oct 21) by radio and television broadcaster Judi Spiers.
They also worked with Exeter Chiefs’ players during the course, as they built their confidence and developed new skills...
Ollie Devoto is banking on home comforts to help reignite the Exeter Chiefs ahead of Sunday’s crunch Aviva Premiership encounter with former club Bath at Sandy Park (3pm).
After back-to-back losses in the European Champions Cup against ASM Clermont Auvergne and Ulster, the Devon outfit resume domestic matters this weekend with a mouth-watering local derby encounter.
With a sell-out crowd already assured and both clubs desperate to claim vital league points, the 23-year-old – who swapped playing life in the Roman City for that of Exeter this summer – believes this latest...
Sunday's Aviva Premiership clash between Exeter Chiefs and Bath Rugby is now officially sold out.
The final tickets for the much anticipated encounter were sold this afternoon and will mean over 12,500 fans will be packed inside Sandy Park.
It will be the first meeting of the two clubs this season with the Chiefs - currently fifth in the Premiership standings - looking to overcome third-placed Bath, who have lost only once under new Director of Rugby, Todd Blackadder.
Exeter Rugby Club chairman and chief executive, Tony Rowe OBE, said: "Games between ourselves and...
In the city which built the ill-fated Titanic, Exeter Chiefs were left with that sinking feeling in this dramatic European Champions Cup encounter at the Kingspan Stadium.
Paddy Jackson’s late drop-goal condemned Rob Baxter’s side to back-to-back defeats in the competition and robbed Gareth Steenson of a happy homecoming back in his native Northern Ireland.
Steenson plundered all 18 of Exeter’s points on the night, landing five penalties and a drop-goal, in another accomplished display from the Dungannon-born marksman.
Exeter Chiefs may be only one game into their last European Champions Cup escapade, but head coach Rob Baxter is all but resigned to the fact that it’s effectively ‘win or bust’ for his side this weekend.
Undone 35-8 by current French Top 14 leaders ASM Clermont Auvergne last Sunday, the Aviva Premiership outfit head across the Irish Sea for Saturday’s Round Two clash with Ulster Rugby at the Kingspan Stadium (7:45pm).
Like the Chiefs, the Irishman started their own Pool 5 exploits with defeat against French opposition, going down 28-13 away to Bordeaux-Begles.
While Exeter Chiefs’ community delivery manager Andrew Dudley would love to win Premiership Rugby's Urban Rugby Squad title for the second year, he says generating even more success stories from the project is priority number one.
The Urban Rugby Squad is a ground-breaking initiative run by Premiership Rugby and its clubs, helping 1,000 young people aged 14-16 from disadvantaged communities across England.
In its first year, the scheme helped 778 young people and delivered 136 personal development workshops on topics such as anger management and sexual health.
RGB Building Supplies are inviting local tradespeople and the community to join them for the opening of their brand new branch on North Road Industrial Estate, Okehampton on Thursday 20th October.
Players from the Exeter Chiefs will officially cut the ribbon at 10am and throughout the morning a number of different leading suppliers will be talking to visitors, demonstrating products and offering special launch day deals.
All visitors will also be able to enjoy a free bacon roll and cup of coffee and, if spending over £25, will be entered into a prize draw to win a signed...
A bit like the Incredible Hulk, you don’t want to see him angry, but an angry Rob Baxter pulled no punches after watching his side slip to defeat in their European Champions Cup opener against ASM Clermont Auvergne.
Having watched his side make a spluttering start to this season’s Aviva Premiership campaign, the Chiefs failed to fire at all against the star-studded Frenchmen, who inspired by Wesley Fofana cruised their way to all five points at Sandy Park.
The talented French international helped himself to a brace of tries, while Julien Bardy, Noa Nakaitaci and Nick...
Rob Baxter has made no secret of the fact that his Exeter Chiefs side must get off to a fast start in this season’s European Champions Cup.
Defeat on the road in round one of last season’s competition meant the Devonians were always playing catch-up, but that they did with aplomb, eventually advancing out of a group which included the Ospreys, Bordeaux-Begles and ASM Clermont Auvergne.
In a curious twist of fate the Chiefs again find themselves up against the two French clubs, along with Ulster Rugby, in what is another testing Pool Two.
Damian Welch’s last-gasp try snatched a dramatic draw for Exeter Chiefs in an enthralling derby with Gloucester at Sandy Park.
With less than a minute remaining, Gloucester’s hopes of a second Aviva Premiership victory of the season were dashed when the Chiefs mauled their way over in the left-hand corner to tie the scores at 27-27.
Even then Rob Baxter’s side could have won it at the death, but the normally deadly Gareth Steenson was unable to land the tricky conversion from wide on the touchline.
Following a disappointing 15-6 defeat at the hands of Bath Rugby...
