 Photo of Beer Beach by Tim White
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This week, East Devon’s housing service has commited to improvements to increase tenant satisfaction.
The Culture, Leisure and Tourism Fund has opened, with charities and businesses encouraged to apply for grants that will help them decarbonise and make their buildings more accessible.
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 News and updates:
East Devon’s housing service commits to further service improvements
 East Devon District Council’s (EDDC) housing service looks to bounce back from COVID and deliver a programme of improvements.
As part of EDDC’s commitment to improvement, an independent survey has recently reported back on tenant satisfaction. Plans are now in place to make changes based on the messages received.
To support tenants, the housing service has introduced estate walkabout events, and annual tenancy inspections which will see all properties visited each year. The housing service is also currently undertaking a review of how tenants are involved with the service and will be refreshing its tenant involvement strategy. Following the results of this survey a number of tenant focus groups are also being set up in order to understand more about tenant’s experiences.
East Devon charities and businesses encouraged to apply for decarbonisation and accessibility grants
 East Devon District Council is welcoming grant applications to its Culture, Leisure and Tourism Fund, which opened on Monday, 12 June.
Organisations can use funding awarded towards decarbonisation projects such as loft insultation, solar panels and double glazing. Businesses can also apply to help with decarbonisation or they can apply for support to improve accessibility in their buildings, such as installing ramps, stairlifts or hearing loops.
Charities can apply for grants of up to £20,000 for the work, while business are eligible for grants of up to £5,000.
Stay up to date with the latest news about grants, opportunities, funding and training for businesses, by subscribing to the East Devon Business newsletter
 Thelma Hulbert Gallery
*Opens tonight* exhibition preview: Friday 16 June, 5-7pm
 © Corinna Wagner, Asylum
Join us to celebrate the opening of an exhibition of new work by photographer Corinna Wagner: TerraOceanus (17 June – 12 August), exploring our relationship to rivers, seas and their edges.
Thelma Hulbert Gallery, Dowell Street, Honiton EX14 1LX thelmahulbert.com
Coming soon: Manor Pavilion Summer Play season
 The Manor Pavilion Theatre, Manor Road, Sidmouth, EX10 8RP. 01395 514 413
Celebrate the ten year anniversary of this ever-popular festival with twelve new plays in twelve weeks. There'll be six of Sidmouth's favourites plays from the last decade and six new plays including three Alan Ayckbourn comedies and Noel Coward’s Private Lives. The season will culminate with John Buchan’s popular ‘The 39 Steps’ adapted by Patrick Barlow.
Performances will take place Monday–Saturday, 8pm (except 4 August). Tickets cost £19.50 or £8 for under 16’s. If you're planning to watch multiple plays, there's a summer deal for season tickets.
Exmouth Pride will be taking place this Saturday, 17 June from 11am - 6:30pm.
For more upcoming events in the local area, head to the East Devon Excellence website.
Latest news, consultations and newsletters
East Devon District Council hold regular consultations and also produce regular newsletters and news on different topics, in the last week we have issued the following which may be of interest:
Have your say:
 Council meetings dates
Over the next week the following East Devon District Council meetings are taking place. Any public meetings will be streamed live to the Council’s YouTube channel, and in the event of difficulties these will be streamed on our Facebook page instead.
 Be a super-recycler and be recycling sack savvy
 The metal items in this photo have been put into recycling sacks, causing contamination
Help us to cut out contamination, by only putting the items we can recycle from the kerb-side in your recycling sack.
Please only use your sacks to recycle your food tins, drinks cans, foil wrap, foil food trays and empty aerosols. All the items shown in the photo can be recycled at a household recycling centre. Find out more here.
Keeping contamination down means that we can more easily recycle the items we can collect and reduces the risk of a rejected load at the processing stage. Visit our A-Z of recycling and disposals webpage here.
Thank you.
The Recycling Team
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Deadline approaching for Green Community Grants
 Bupa Foundation are awarding Green Community Grants of between £250 and £2,500 to support practical projects which help both people and planet health. This scheme is open to organisations such as schools, non-profits and charities.
To read more about what projects can be funded click here.
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