We recently worked with Your Later Life on the 2020 campaign. A printed publication was enclosed within every copy of The Telegraph newspaper and the content is available online at https://bit.ly/2Gdj3WS. The campaign featured exclusive content from key thought leaders and industry voices about celebrating the later years of your life, offering support and advice to those aged 55+.
Tag: Health and Wellbeing
What’s up with Movember?
Sometimes a brand becomes so ubiquitous it’s hard to see what all the fuss was about to begin with. We had a chat with our staff and here’s what they make of it all.
Continue ReadingMy Brain and I…
My Brain and I have been together for nearly 70 years achieving some remarkable things and the occasional dismal failure.
Continue ReadingGetting Older…
Remember the days when you used to ache in places you didn’t know you had? This is where my body is at right now!
Continue ReadingTop five ways to beat anxiety during COVID-19
2.6 million adults in Great Britain reported feeling lonely “often” or “always” between 3rd April and 3rd May this year according to research by the Office for National Statistics.
Continue Reading“At my lowest, I did consider suicide”
I am going to share with you today the story of my ordeal with mental illness and anxiety. I am going to be frank and totally honest about it but, ultimately, it is a story of rebirth and hope.
Hart Matters
It’s nearly twelve months since Church Crookham and Fleet Men’s Shed opened the doors to our purpose-built workshop next to the allotments on the Crookham Park Estate. And what a twelve months! If anyone had said that in six months’ time we’d be closing the doors and the country would be in lockdown, we would have thought that they had put something in their tea, but how true they would have been.
Continue ReadingSilvers Workshop receives ASDA Refresher Kit
It was a great surprise to The Silvers’ Workshop, Reading to receive a call from Jacqueline Fieldsend, ASDA Tilehurst, Community Champion. She was interested in knowing when we hoped to re-open the Workshop and if a representative could meet her at the Tilehurst store to discuss our plans.
Continue ReadingCOVID-19 Guidance for unlocking Sheds
Across the country Shedders are asking, when can we re-open and what will we need to put in place?
In partnership with other Shed Associations and Sheds, we have developed a document that will hopefully help you with your thought process and what you may want to consider when opening your Shed.
We fully understand the dilemma for Sheds and Shedders and we hope you follow the guidance until such time that it is both legal and safe to open your Sheds. As we receive more information or ideas from Sheds and partners we will update this document here on the UKMSA website.
Stay safe!
Unlocking the Shed should be a useful supplement to the guidance from Public Health agencies and Governments. Click the boxes below to download resource packs.
