Held last weekend, on a sunny Saturday in May, an enthusiastic crowd descended on Royal Wootton Bassett Rugby Club to enjoy a range of the very best ciders, gourmet sausages, cider-fuelled music, and three exciting rugby matches.
The day kicked off with an early-bird fixture between Supermarine Ladies and Lyneham Lightning. This was followed by the popular McCue Cup - a celebratory rugby match between REME Training Battalion and a RWBRFC President’s XV - and a County match between Dorset & Wilts and Eastern Counties.
Live music is always a big part of our Festival and this year we were super-excited to welcome Swindon's premier indie covers band Penfold, as well as punk ska band Operation '77 and the return of Neil Diamond tribute Pete Jones. George Scarrott and Son’s Family Fun Fair provided entertainment for the younger ones and there was a range of vendors and stalls around the field courtesy of Royal Wootton Bassett's Carnival Committee.
The festival - and the club in general - is run by an enthusiastic army of volunteers and this became a theme of the video - capturing behind the scenes vignettes of everyone who works hard each year to put on these events, and this really is reflected in the film. By the end of a long, sunny Saturday we had captured a huge amount of footage; and one of the most difficult tasks was trying to condense it all down into a 9-minute film!
Were you there?
We would like to thank everyone who came along for this incredible event. And we should give a special shout out to all our members and volunteers who worked hard behind the scenes to put on this year's festival. We'll be back next season and we hope to see you all again at the RWBRC Sausage & Cider Festival 2023!
A huge thank you goes to Fish Brothers Swindon Ltd - ŠKODA, Nissan and VW Van Centre - for sponsoring this year's Sausage & Cider Festival.
Photographs courtesy James Booth Photography
