The South Devon Players Theatre & Film Company News

Preparation for Brixham Lights & Illuminations 2022

25/11/2022

We were going to have stalls and fundraising on both Middle Street and in the Scala Hall, tomorrow, for Brixham's big Christmas celebration event, however with the forecast of high winds, all the Middle Street attractions have been cancelled by the organiser. Diverse Events, but we still have our stall in the Scala Hall tomorrow, from 10am to 2pm. We have some lovely costume jewelry and gifts like that for sale, and you can also come and find out about our next performances, and our upcoming auditions for Les Miserables and Macbeth, and our projects within the local community.
Thank you so much to Lovely Lisa this morning for helping set up - and preparing the jewelery for display.

Fundraising in the market

8/10/2022

The amazing Maggie Donaldson running a fundraising stall at the Brixham Scala Hall today to raise funds for our rehearsals and suchlike - she makes amazing cards ( see DevonSent Cards) as well
Many thanks to Brixham Town Council for hosting the event

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Lovely Maggie supporting our fundraising

2/9/2022

More stock for the craft sale at #scalahallbrixham on Saturday 10th September. In addition to my cards, there’ll be lots of toiletries, costume jewellery and other goodies, raising funds for the South Devon Players, your local Brixham-based theatre group, fresh from the Edinburgh Fringe! Come along and support local creatives
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June 11th, 2022

11/6/2022

Do you jave any unwanted used postage stamps (any age, and from anywhere)?
Please consider supporting local theatre by donating them instead of thowing them away, Please drop them into us
care of Janet,
The Crafty Cwtch Cafe
66 Middle Street
Brixham
Devon TQ5 8EJ

Collecting used stamps for our fundraising, sorting them, and selling them to collectors via our eBay shop is a small but steadily growing part of our fundraising. (If you are a stamp collector and want to check out what we currently have on offer, please visit the ebay shop tab in in our top website menu.)

We have found several wonderful private supporters, many of whom have stated that they will support this stamp fundraising in an ongoing manner (which is fabulous - we don't plan on stopping this, rather the opposite).

As well as our private supporters, we would like to extend an enormous thank you to Janet of the Welsh-themed café Crafty Cwtch on Middle Street in Brixham who is now acting as a collection point for our stamp collecting, and t

Of course, if you want to hand any stamps directly to us, please get in touch with us on southdevonplayers@gmail.com

Thank you so much to everyone for your incredible support .

All funds raised from these stamp sales, go towards hiring our rehearsal space at Chestnut Community Centre in Brixham (yes so then that money from our hire, benefits a local Brixham community centre in turn), buying second hand items to use/ remake as props and costumes, for insurances & other legal requirements.

Should you wish to read more about our fundraising policies, please see FUNDRAISING

Thank you so much

21/1/2022

Two amazing local organisations supporting our work this week- we are so grateful to both.
Enormous thank you to Brixham Town Council for approving a grant to pay for our rehearsal space for the next 12 months covering the rest of our rehearsals for Ben Hur, and then for our following show Beowulf, creating loads of creative opportunities for local people. This is an enormous help- thank you so much to the Council
Also an equally huge thank you to Brixham Sea Rangers for providing the wooden oars for our lovely galley slaves in our theatre production of Ben Hur following our shoutout on Facebook.
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Volunteer call

11/1/2022

We are looking for some lovely volunteers:

People to help Laura with fundraising:. The most important thing is help with writing grant bids. I'm autistic and tend to get in a muddle with what some of the more ambiguous questions mean - I am terrible for thinking they mean something else - or how to word things in a way funders like, in their form word counts. I can talk passionately about the group and our work for hours but not in a way that works for forms, it seems. I also have dyscalculia and get in a muddle when I am asked for a detailed spreadsheet instead of a simple budget written on word and checked on my calculator! Someone good at writing funder-speak and spreadsheets to help me would be a godsend.
Someone good at British Sign Language. We like to do an education pack alongside each show, free on our website for people to access, and one of those things, is a video of "ten words from the show, in BSL". I don't speak BSL, and the person who used to do them has moved away. This can be done from home (using plain wall and a phone camera) or we can do it in Brixham at the community centre where we rehearse. We aim do three or four of these short videos per year usually so there isn't loads of time commitment needed.
Please contact us on southdevonplayers@gmail.com if you can possibly help, to discuss further.
Thank you so much.
Laura

December 12th, 2021

12/12/2021

Some of the Roman swords and shields and helmets arrived today for our theatre production of Ben Hur- and will be prepared for the show over the next little while.
Many thanks to funding from Tesco community fund via Groundwork.
Getting reenactment gear wherever possible is brilliant for us with historical- set shows because it can add a brilliant dimension of realism to the show as well as an educational dimension for learning about historical aspects for both actors and audiences.
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A new range of handmade items on our ebay

16/11/2021

A lovely local lady, Sally-Ann, whom we have worked with on and off for many years, is creating these beautiful one-of-a-kind hand crocheted throws for our fundraising. It helps with her health and she wants to help support our work too. Its enormously appreciated. We have the first four listed. More will be added as and when available.

Link to view the currently available ones:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/Home-Furniture-DIY/11700/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_ipg=&_from=&_ssn=southdevonplayers&_sac=1

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Thank you so much for the donation to our used stamps appeal

26/10/2021

A huge thank you to the lovely person who donated a big bag of used postage stamps to our ongoing fundraising appeal, today via Janet at the Crafty Cwtch cafe. We have started sorting them this evening ready for the fundraising sales, and we are absolutely thrilled with such a lovely variety of UK and foreign stamps.
We do hope the donor sees this.
More details on our fundraising at https://www.southdevonplayers.com/fundraising.html
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More collectable stamps added to our fundraising ebay

19/10/2021

Collectable postage stamps on ebay - lots of different countries, . UK based, happy to send worldwide. 100% positive feedback. Fundraising for local theatre group in southwest England to pay for rehearsal room rent, costumes, props, insurances, etc to create opportunities for local people in a deprived area. Please come and take a look. https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/southdevonplayers/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_ipg=&_from