Kingsbridge Estuary Decorative and Fine Arts Society, KEDFAS, is a Society whose Members are neither experts nor artists but ordinary people who are interested in improving their knowledge of the “Fine Arts” in the widest sense.

KEDFAS was established in 1993 by Dr and Mrs Tony Barford. One of the aims of the Society is to encourage the growth of friendship, but most of all we meet to combine learning with enjoyment.

The Society is divided in its meetings into two. One meeting in the evening of the last Wednesday in the month and the other the following morning (Thursday).
The Wednesday evening meeting held at 7.15 for 8.00pm at Kingsbridge Community College. The Thursday morning meeting is held at the Reel Cinema, Fore Street Kingsbridge at 9.45 for 10.30am.

Membership of KEDFAS is open to all. There is no need for any sponsorship, nomination or other means of supporting an application for membership.

Membership entitles members to attend the lecture programme, and in addition to receive the quarterly arts journal “NADFAS Review”

The annual programme year, from September to June (but excluding December) consists of nine monthly meetings of illustrated Lectures by acclaimed experts on the widest variety of subjects. The programme is selected by the Society Committee and aims to offer something to suit all tastes. Each meeting lasts approximately one to one and a half hours.

In addition to the nine lectures, the Society conducts Study or Special Interest Days (usually a full-day series of lectures on a particular topic) during each programme year.

Day visits to art collections, historic venues, houses and gardens in the South West feature in the year.

Members are encouraged to join and take part in the extremely important Church Recording group. To date, Salcombe, South Pool and Thurlestone Parish Churches have been the subject of the in depth recording process, carried out by KEDFAS members.

Finally we arrange occasional events of a cultural and social nature, including a Christmas event, when members from both Wednesday evening and Thursday morning can meet together.