💡Did you know? #deliaderbyshire has a building named after her at Coventry University. Recognition for a self-defined “working class girl from #coventry.” Our 2025 team of amazing volunteers recorded these factoids, gratefully supported by @heritagefunduk.bsky.social

🛒 Check out our new look shop! 🛒 deliaderbyshireday.com/shop/ We have a humble selection of gifts for you and others. All proceeds go to help with our annual costs and activities. Please contact us for overseas shipping costs.

Did u know? #deliaderbyshire has a blue plaque (heritage significance recognition) on the house the grew up in in #coventry. A more recent occupier found childhood artefacts which have been added to Delia’s archive at @thejohnrylands.bsky.social #musiccharity #womeninelectronicmusic #doctorwho

Have you checked out our #deliaderbyshireday #podcast? Here’s 2025 volunteer Charlie asking Mark Ayres about material in the #deliaderbyshire #archive at @thejohnrylands.bsky.social 🔊🔊 listen to the 5 episodes, 30 mins each, on your favourite podcast platform. @heritagefunduk.bake.social supported

Did You Know...? Volunteer Jae says "Delia created electronic music before samplers, computers, synths and mixing desks were widely available." Like many making music at the time, Delia used inventiveness. Dick Mills, who worked with Delia says "necessity was the mother of invention." Amazing in it?

Today would have been #deliaderbyshire’s 89th birthday. We find Delia consistently inspires kids of all ages. 🎥 Belle Vue Productions, supported by @heritagefunduk.bsky.social, a short film about Delia available on our YouTube. #deliaderbyshireday #musiccharity #electronicmusic

The DD Day shop is back! T shirts, mugs, badges. Support our work, while you buy nice things for the audiophile in your life, which might be you 🤓

💡Did You Know series 2026💡Our 2025 volunteer team share factoids about Delia Derbyshire. “Delia used a single piece of metal string to create that driving bassline of the original #DoctorWho theme" Like many making music with tape, Delia used found sounds (everyday objects/sounds) as sound sources.

📣 our podcast 📣 For the 2nd episode, our trustee Sashwati & commissioned artist Suzy Mangion talk about Delia’s creativity with David Vorhaus who worked with Delia and Brian Hodgson to create that cult album “An Electric Storm” in 1969. Listen on yr fave platform or visit Media page on our website.

Creative freedom! Experimentation, risk-taking…A striking finding in our Electronic Music Education report written by @brightersound.bsky.social; initiative supported by @biggive.bsky.social, Postlethwaite Music Foundation, One Education. SHARE YR STORY of electronic music & creative freedom 🪩

📣Our Electronic Music Education Report is out 📣 10 teachers, 60 kids. There is a gap. It is bridgeable. Read summary & full report: deliaderbyshireday.com/education/ @biggive.bsky.social Report by @brightersound.bsky.social @oneeducation.bsky.social

Organisational objective 3 (of 3) 🤓✅ OPPORTUNITIES - say hi if you are one of them ✊🏽 As part of our 10th Anniversary, we published our Social Impact Report. ➡️ Read our full social impact report here: deliaderbyshireday.com/about-us/ Gratefully supported by National Lottery Heritage Fund

Organisational objective 2 (of 3) 🤓✅ As part of our 10th Anniversary, we published our Social Impact Report. ➡️ Read our full social impact report here: deliaderbyshireday.com/dd-day-socia... Gratefully supported by National Lottery Heritage Fund

Organisational objective 1 (of 3) 🤓✅ As part of our 10th Anniversary, we published our Social Impact Report. ➡️ Read our full social impact report here: deliaderbyshireday.com/dd-day-socia... Gratefully supported by National Lottery Heritage Fund

We published our Social Impact Report carried out by Turn Up the Value, designed by Andrea Pazos 🤓🌟 Read our social impact report on DD Day website here: deliaderbyshireday.com/dd-day-socia... With thanks to National Lottery Heritage Fund Background image credit: Kara Blake

🎧 DD Day podcast 🎧 @carocsound, David Butler and @sashwatimira chat about the origin story and aims of our small charity centred around the archive of #deliaderbyshire at @thejohnrylands.bsky.social. Look us up on podcast platforms or listen via our website 🔊

📍We went to Barrow-in-Furness to deliver a weekend of DD Day events ➡️Did you know you can book us for screenings, performances, talks and workshops! A big thank you to the Full of Noises team, National Lottery Heritage Fund and everyone who came along for making this possible 📸Laurence Campbell

Our podcast: The education episode with Zolatec, Mandy Wigby & Caro C - unpacking how and why we facilitate learning to make music the #deliaderbyshireday way, inspired by the heritage of this woman pioneer. Listen on all podcast platforms.

Photos from our MCR event are here 🤓🎉 a massive thank you to everyone who came along to celebrate and all those involved to make this happen! ‌ 🙏📸Shirlaine Forrest ‌ Made possible thanks to support from National Lottery Heritage Fund and our project partners

Ever wondered where the Delia Derbyshire and Delia Derbyshire Day archives are kept? Come with us to the Special Collections Room at @thejohnrylands.bsky.social in Manchester, England #deliaderbyshireday #deliaderbyshire #archives #heritage

📣2025 Creative Commission 3! After premiering last week at DD Day 2025, hear Alexis Maxwell talk more about her new audio-visual collaboration with Joy Ingle 🎥🎵 Check out the full commission on our DD Day webpage. Gratefully supported by National Lottery Heritage Fund

📣2025 Creative Commission 2! After premiering last week at DD Day 2025, Andrea Pazos talks about new audio-visual work with Suzy Mangion @turningcircle.bsky.social inspired by heritage at @thejohnrylands.bsky.social Full commission on website. Gratefully supported by National Lottery Heritage Fund

📣2025 Creative Commission 1! ‌ After premiering last week at DD Day 2025, hear ZOLATEC talk more about her new audio-visual collaboration with hippiezilla 🎥🎵 ‌ Check out the full commission on our DD Day webpage. Gratefully supported by National Lottery Heritage Fund

🔊📽️ NEW ART 📽️🔊 Creative responses to heritage by 6 Northwest England based artists. Gratefully supported by @heritagefunduk.bsky.social Check them out via our DD Day 2025 webpage: deliaderbyshireday.com/dd-day-2025-... think @turningcircle.bsky.social artist Suzy Mangion is the only one on here.

📣 Commission trailer 3! Joy Ingle and Alexis Maxwell have completed their new audio-visual work 🎥🎵 Our 2025 artists dove into the DD and DD Day Archive at @thejohnrylands.bsky.social with new creativity relating to heritage. Gratefully supported by The National Lottery Heritage Fund

📣 Commission trailer 2! As DD Day 2025 approaches, so does new art inspired by the heritage of Delia Derbyshire and DD Day Archives at @thejohnrylands.bsky.social ‌ Look out for videos on 23 Nov & see this piece screened at MCR Central Library on Sat. Supported by National Lottery Heritage Fund

🎙️Our first #podcast series🎙️episode 3 is out today. Listen via our website or on your usual podcast platform. We hope you enjoy, learn, be inspired 🤓 #electronicmusicpodcast

Our 10th Anniversary Manchester Event Poster! 🎟️🤓 ‌ 📷:Thank you to Andrea Pazos for designing the poster and our wonderful 2025 volunteer Tillie for her ‘10th’ tape logo design featured at the top 🙌 ‌ With thanks to support from National Lottery Heritage Fund and our project partners

💭 DD Day 10th Anniversary Reflections - our education work! Delia acts as inspiration for empowerment via creativity, technology and heritage 🤓🔉 ‌ 📹: Video clip and project produced in partnership with One Education, Manchester, UK ‌ #deliaderbyshireday #deliaderbyshire

💭 DD Day 10th Anniversary Reflections: we’re proud to celebrate a decade of career development opportunities through artist commissions, mentoring, project staff and volunteering… 🤓📋 📷: Shirlaine Forrest & Anna Budrys #deliaderbyshireday #deliaderbyshire