15/11/2021
The Lions Legacy Roadshow Tour at Westbury RFC
Emma, director of InEvents is also a director of Westbury RFC. This is a volunteer role and sees Emma, out of office time, attending meetings and using her skills to try and drive the grassroots club forward.
One of the players at the club nominated the chairman for a prize from The Good, The Bad and The Rugby podcast, which is hosted by Mike Tindall, James Haskell and Alex Payne. ‘Foggy’, Westbury RFC’s chairman was chosen. The celebration of the club and ‘Foggy’ was meant to have taken place in 2020 but the pandemic and lockdown uncertainty saw it pushed back with no new date set in place.
With restrictions lifting, October 2021 seemed like the perfect time to celebrate. TGTBTR, together with Vodafone, will visit four clubs, in total, to help get people back into their clubhouses and celebrate the Lions legacy.
With just 5 weeks to arrange a major event, Emma put on her InEvents hat to pull off, together with the team at Vodafone and TGTBTR, the perfect day of rugby and fun for all the family at Westbury RFC.
The brief was that the day needed to focus around rugby with a game by the ladies, the men, and the launch of the new initiative of Westbury RFC walking rugby.
The Ladies were joined by Emily Scarratt (the English rugby union player) who gave them a team talk before Westbury Ladies pink played Westbury Ladies green.
The three walking rugby teams were kitted out in different coloured Canterbury tops and had special guest players in the form of James Haskall, Mike Tindall, and Alex Payne (who received several yellow cards from the referee, Mr Lamb, which caused much hilarity on the side-lines).
The men had a league game against Sutton Benger, with the celebrity trio joined by Jason Robinson commentating.
Aside from the rugby, Vodafone had a stand with a rugby game on and Lions swag up for grabs, Canterbury had a stand where you could design your own kit, The Rugby Wine Club gave out wine samples, the club had two bars open, Tombola, bouncy castle, craft table and cake and sweet stall. The whole event was supported by the local Lions Club as Westbury RFC’s volunteers were involved in playing rugby on the day.
The day ended with a podcast recording featuring Jason Robinson and Emily Scarratt in the clubhouse. This was followed by a local DJ playing tunes for everyone to dance the night away to.
The day ran smoothly and was really successful, raising lots of money for the club.
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