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Dear Creative,
Applications are now open for the ACED Volunteer of the Year Award 2025. Please help us celebrate the fabulous work of our dedicated arts, culture and heritage volunteers. Other news:
- Register for our Summer ACED Network event on 5 June
- Latest training and funding opportunities.
 Volunteers at Thelma Hulbert Gallery
ACED Volunteer of the Year 2025
Honour a volunteer’s outstanding contribution to your arts / heritage organisation or festival. Just submit up to 250 words about your volunteer and three words to describe them.
Deadline: Friday 9 May, 5pm.
Winners to be announced at the ACED Summer Network meeting on 5 June.
 Summer ACED Network Meeting
Thursday 5 June, 6.00- 8.00pm
Our next meeting will be an evening event in the beautiful gardens of the National Trust property, A La Ronde, Exmouth. Coinciding with National Volunteer Week, we look forward to announcing the ACED Volunteer of the Year 2025
Creative Health Survey
Cayr Charity’s Creative Health Survey 2025 is mapping how creativity—through arts, culture, music, drama, and storytelling—is supporting health and well-being across the UK. It takes just 5 minutes to complete!
 Thelma Hulbert Gallery
April Highlight
Thelma Hulbert Gallery, Honiton has reopened with a debut solo exhibition by filmmaker and artist Ashish Ghadiali. Enjoy 10% off in the shop with code CULTURALMAP during this exhibition. Check out other Spring cultural offers on ACED's new digital cultural map.
Training
Digital Marketing Workshop with Cosmic, Monday 7 April, 1.30-4.30, Exeter Science Park. Master AI-driven strategies & make every click count by optimising your website & CTAs for conversions.
Kids In Museums: Engaging your first young Trustees. Free programme to help recruit young trustees for galleries, museums & heritage organisations: Fewer than 3% of charity trustees in England and Wales are under 30. Online April 2025 – March 2026.
 Support needed
Crowdfundraiser: Sidmouth International Jazz & Blues Festival is raising money to bring Sidmouth alive new Orleans-style and make music accessible to all with a free education programme. To see the full programme (23 – 26 May) and buy tickets, visit www.sidmouthjazz.com.
 D'Oyly Carte © Luminate/Richard Frew
Funding opportunities
Youth Music Trailblazer Fund - grants of £2,000 to £30,000 for organisations that support children and young people facing barriers to make, learn or earn in music.
Deadline: 11.04.25
Esmée Fairbairn Foundation - funding for core costs to support registered charities, CICs and limited companies with transformative projects in the arts. Minimum grant of £30,000 for 3-5 years. Applications can be submitted at any time.
D’Oyly Carte Charitable Trust - grants of £500 - £6,000 for UK charities towards core costs or projects for access and participation in the arts with an emphasis on choir/singing to bring people together, performance arts, music and drama projects for young people.
Deadline: 03.06.25
Job opportunity or artist call to share? Send it to: aced@eastdevon.gov.uk. More funding and training opportunities and links to resources on ACED website.
Arts and Culture East Devon (ACED) is a network connecting the artistic communities of East Devon and providing a central platform to engage, network, promote and talk about arts and culture across the region.
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