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Boat Projects looking for Men’s Sheds help.

UK Men’s Sheds Association have been contacted by the Britannia Sailing Trust and a family, looking to join forces in helping to get some unfinished projects back afloat.

Meet our new Treasurer: David Webber

Hello I am David and I live in North Buckinghamshire with my wife, two terriers and, occasionally, adult children.

It is very exciting for me to join UK Men’s Sheds Association as Treasurer. Though I am a Chartered Accountant by training I like to think, as so many of us accountants do, that I can do so many more things than just maths and spreadsheets.

In the news June 2021

Catch up with all the latest happenings in the Men’s Shed Movement as covered by the press!

Meet an Ambassador: Alan Page

“There’s a new concept in Australia“, Tony told me, while I was visiting Tony and Corinne in a small town near Melbourne in 2010. He took me to a small Shed nearby and I was very impressed by the welcome I received.

Patron’s Corner – June

Hello everyone! Well, it is the start of another week and I will, hopefully, be able to spend most of it in the workshop. I can’t quite remember if I shared with you all that my work is now for sale and exhibited in a gallery in our local town of Ashbourne, here in the Peak District.

Meet Tony Smith-Crallan: Ambassador

Hi, I am Tony Smith-Crallan, Chairman and one of the founder members of The Silvers’ Workshop, Reading Men’s Shed.

Keeping up with Hatfield Shedders

Our Shed started in completely the ‘wrong’ way really. It came out of a local concern about suicide, and a conversation with a local councillor about an idea I had as a possible remedy.

Commissions and Community with Men in Sheds Penge

We caught up with Jon Paul Mountford online. We were particularly impressed by the volume of requests to help them upcycle, make and restore that members of the public were sending to Penge Shed!

Fraserburgh Shed: Homeless

In talking to various people, Sheds, and organisations, we have found our present situation is not unique and that several Men’s Sheds have gone through similar experiences – finding themselves, as we are, HOMELESS – without premises.

No stopping for Janner Men’s Shed

Communities Worker Ryan Huws explains how Coronavirus hasn’t stopped Plymouths’s Janner Men’s Shed from helping men stay in touch during the pandemic.


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