💡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.

Two days left to send us your ideas for adventurous short documentaries on @josielong.bsky.social’s Short Cuts! You can find all the pitching info here: www.fallingtree.co.uk/pitch

Our Summer newsletter: a little update from DD Day HQ, Delia-n sounds on BBC Radio this weekend by and artist opportunities from our friends at @brightersound.bsky.social & @oramawards.bsky.social mailchi.mp/b6fb8f3a3b36...

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 🤓

Recommending: A recent radio programme on the history of the imaginative radio feature. It's called 'Into the Ether' and broadcast as part of BBC Radio 4's Archive on 4 strand. There are extracts from the 'Inventions for Radio' Delia worked on with Barry Bermange. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Radio 4 - Archive on 4, Into the Ether

Unearthing audio treasures from the radiophonic past.

bbc.co.uk

💡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

Young Identity are currently seeking a new Chair and other Trustees to join our board. Our new Trustees may come from many walks of life and we do not require prior board-level experience. Application Deadline: 6 April 2026 Interviews: 20 - 21 April 2026 Apply: youngidentity.org/get-involved

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

🚂Plus there’s highlights of last month’s amazing Changing Gear concert at @railwaymuseum.bsky.social and a look at how our friends at @deliaderbyshireday.bsky.social celebrated turning 10 recently. ⏩If you’re not already subscribed, read it here: mailchi.mp/e83efdae2f6a... 🧵2/2

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

📣NEW CALLOUT: YSWN Rewired To celebrate YSWN turning 10 this year, we’re launching Rewired: artistic commissions for women and gender-diverse people working with electronic music and sound art in Yorks & the Humber. We're offering: • 3 micro-commissions of £750 • 1 main commission of £1,500 🧵1/4

📣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