The South Devon Players Theatre & Film Company News

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.
#theatre #regionaltheatre #thankyou #britishtheatre #brixham #torbay #acting #actorslife #supportarts #supportheatre #benhur #gratitude

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.
#theatre #acting #actors #Romans #brixham #tescocommunityfund #benhur #devon #regionaltheatre #britishtheatre #actorslife #stageproduction

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

#theatre #arts #handmade #brixham #torbay #devon #crochet #homewares #fundraising #regionaltheatre #britishtheatre #performingarts #ebay

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
#theatre #brixham #devon '#actors #regionaltheatre #britishtheatre #acting #actorslife #supporttheatre #supportarts #fundraisingcampaign

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

Please support us through Torbay Lottery

8/10/2021

The all important link to all the information: https://www.torbaylottery.co.uk/support/the-south-devon-players

The Torbay Lottery is a locally run lottery which supports verified local charities and non-profit / community organizations. You play from £1 (and can win up to £25,000! We have already had two winners of smaller prizes) and in turn this helps raise funds for us as well.

We would (naturally) be enormously grateful if you would like to sign up to support our work, in creating exciting new theatre, and providing inclusive, exciting opportunities for local people of all demographics and backgrounds to get involved in theatre, to build experience in theatre towards or as part of careers in the arts, and work towards their Equity cards & Spotlight registrations if they need to.

100% of everything raised via Torbay Lottery goes directly into our work: hiring a room in a local community centre for rehearsals; costumes, props, insurances, printing posters and flyers to advertise the shows, developing free education packs for schools and audience members.

New listings for the fundraising on ebay

10/9/2021

Recently donated, a beautiful Chinese style dress with butterflies, and a pale gold dressing gown with butterflies

Auction link:
Beautiful long Chinese style dress red/ butterflies approx size 16 READ LISTING | eBay

Auction link:
Beautiful long satin effect dressing gown butterflies approx size 16 | eBay

Finding driftwood for a prop! Recycling and saving money!

25/8/2021

A great bit of driftwood on the beach that will be critical for making a specific prop for our theatre production of Ben Hur. Recycling is awesome & probably saved us about £10 (which is a lot to us!)! The realities of making theatre in the U.K. regions
#recycling #zerowaste #britishtheatre #equity