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Dear Creative,
We are delighted to announce 11 new recipients of Round 3 of the Creative East Devon Fund supporting creative projects, workshops and festivals across East Devon in 2025/2026. All of these projects will further the aims of the East Devon Cultural Strategy, ensuring that East Devon's cultural offer is high quality, interesting, fun, relevant and accessible and that residents' health, happiness and wellbeing improve as a result.
Other news:
- New artist opportunities
- Latest training and funding opportunities
 Creative East Devon Fund - recipients announced
We are excited to announce the new recipients of the Creative East Devon Fund: from oral history projects and storytelling sessions to discovery workshops and collaborative artworks promoting sustainability, creative writing workshops and spoken word performances to animation workshops.
Autumn ACED Network Meeting
Thank you to everyone who attended our Autumn ACED Network Meeting at The Dome in Exeter Science Park. Please send your feedback or suggestions for future themes, speaker requests and proposals to aced@eastdevon.gov.uk. Useful links from the meeting:
Devon Connect - Connecting Communities in Devon
Register with us - Screen Devon
Didn't get a chance to catch someone's contact details? Find them in the ACED Directory.
 Training opportunities
Kids In Museums offer free online workshops including: How to create inclusive career pathways for young people / How to create a museum visual story / Meaningful consultation with children and families / Deaf Awareness Training
Digital Cultural Network
Designing your own survey: research basics and top questions
28 October, 11-12. Learn the basics of designing audience or visitor surveys.
East Devon VSCE support:
21 October, 10-11.30: Inshot - Make Your Own Video
5 November, 10-11.30: Marketing - Using Social Media
Intergenerational Forum in Arts & Wellbeing (free webinar)
Boards Without Borders: Why we need more intergenerational boards 5 November, 5-6.30.
Free Inclusive Digital Accessibility Skills Training Across Devon
Skills Project is offering free, fully funded digital accessibility skills training for disabled people, neurodivergent learners, care-experienced and harder-to-reach communities, to build confidence with digital accessibility tools for work, learning and independence.
 October Highlights
Beyond Van Gogh: 16 - 31 October, 10am - 7.30pm at Westpoint Exeter. Stunning immersive show bringing the masterpieces of Vincent van Gogh to life in one unforgettable cinematic multimedia experience.
Art That Made Us at Propeller, Exmouth: 7.30 - 9.30pm. 21.10 - 08.12.25. A series of eight linked evening classes led by John Astley, author and Sociologist of Culture. Each class will view an episode of the TV series: Art That Made Us followed by a discussion. Free, please register here.
For details of what's on in East Devon, visit East Devon Excellence
 The library at Killerton house, Devon. | © National Trust Images / Andreas von Einsiedel
Opportunities
B Sharp is looking for a dynamic CEO with a passion for young people, music and community to lead the charity. Permanent, £42,000 pro rata. Flexible location in East Devon/Dorset. Deadline 24.10.25
East Devon Daytime Band: Do you play or have you ever played a musical instrument? Join a successful, relaxed and friendly band. Rehearsals every Wednesday, 10.15 - 12.15 at Sidmouth Rugby Club Pavilion. Contact Trevor Heynes, Chairman: 01395 708766.
Calling Artists, Makers and Creatives to join Honiton’s New Artist Quarter.
Honiton Town Council and Thelma Hulbert Gallery are looking for creatives to be part of a vibrant new Creative/Artist Quarter at the Honiton Market on either Tuesday or Saturday. Contact info@thelmahulbert.com. Deadline: 28.11.25
Artist Commission: the National Trust is looking for an artist to create an artwork that responds to a display of objects on the ground floor of Killerton House. Fee: £3,250. Deadline 31.10.25
Calling Devon-based Producers and Writers. Apply for the Peninsula Producers and New Writers Network. Delivered by Screen Cornwall and Exeter Phoenix. Deadline 03.11.25, 5pm.
Funding opportunities
CoSTAR Evolve programme offers six months of dedicated business support for 10 UK creative technology enterprises, including 1-2-1 mentorship (total in-kind support worth an estimated £10,000) and a £5,000 Enterprise Development Award. Deadline 28.10.25
Carbon Action Fund: grants of £2,000 to £20,000 to help East Devon community organisations to decarbonise, covering equipment such as solar PV, insulation and LED lighting. Deadline: 10.11.25
Shift the Scene Fund: grants of up to £200,000 to organisations who provide creative opportunities for disabled children and young people, pushing for genuine inclusion, ambition and accessibility. Deadline: 28.11.25.
The National Archives: Seed Corn grants of £500 to £5,000 to support community groups, Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums (GLAM) exploratory projects for community engagement with heritage. Deadline: 28.11.25
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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