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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.

Men in Sheds West Bletchley help refurbish derelict Sensory Garden

The Parish of West Bletchley is fortunate in that it now possesses a Sensory Garden of which it can be proud, but that was not always the case.

I’m not stressed by Paul Egerton

“STRESS. I’M NOT STRESSED!” That’s a statement with which many of us will be familiar during the lockdown. We all hide our feelings to a greater or lesser extent…

Fix-it TV – which is your favourite?

As a new restoration (or, to be more accurate, re-purposing) programme – Saved and Remade – comes to BBC2, UKMSA Trustee Chris Lee reviews four mainstays from the lockdown daytime TV schedules.

Silvers’ Covid-19 Safety Action Plan

As ‘Shedders’ we’re being constantly told by the experts and family members that we’re in the ‘at-risk group’ in respect of Covid-19 and should therefore isolate.

Meet an Ambassador: Martin Young

Martin Young. Trustee & Chairman – Dunstable Men in Sheds. Shed Ambassador: NHC Region.


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