Whitby Area Sheds

We do the unusual

Front wheel for a Penny Farthing intended for the Tour de Yorkshire which was Covid cancelled.

Art in wood

Wood is a wonderful material that can be turned, carved, drilled, painted to achieve great results. You can learn.

Do It Yourself

Learning from others and sharing your skills with them.

Men working shoulder to shoulder

Men tend to talk to each other as they are doing. Working alongside. Women tend to talk face to face. Is this true?

Serving Whitby Coast and inland

Take time to visit the Shedders' Bites page to see what they say from their experience

Sheds are about fellowship, inclusion and acceptance. A place where people can meet and work together, enjoy each other's company and give to others.

Words penned by the Australian Men's Shed Association, AMSA

Big Boys Don’t Cry – a book of first hand stories about men’s mental health

Tonight (19/5/2020) there has been a Zoom book launch for “Big Boys Don’t Cry”. Some of the authors read their pieces out. A most powerful series of chats that may ring with you – several did with me. Take a look. Take your mental health seriously. You are not alone…

Woodworking Videos and Guidance from Health & Safety Executive

Please spend time browsing these and raise any issues (including anything that is not understood) with your Shed duty manager or other experienced seniors. We are each responsible for our personal safety and for that of fellow Shedders. If you see dangerous/careless practice please speak up! Much of this…

Whitby District Sheds : Where and When

Anyone can drop by to say hello and find out what goes on. If a group wants to come, this must be arranged in advance please. Sheds run from 10am to about 1.30pm. Monday Staithes Men’s Shed : rear of Staithes Sports & Social Club Tuesday Sleights Area Men’s Shed…

Peep into SAMS

Less than 3 months after SAMS started in early 2016, Yorkshire Coast Homes (now incorporated with Beyond Housing) donated Kevin Allen to produce a video to explain what SAMS was really about. It still holds true and for both sexes.

Dizzy Heights (with a bit about Sheds reopening but not quite now!)

Take a look at this. Graham’s pilot neighbour mentioned that he had volunteered to help. It’s stressful for airline staff when flying and in some ways more stressful now with furloughing and job cuts. The NHS likewise in other ways. Put the two together and “doing good” lifts the spirits. …

Outdoor Shedding

We are now able to be outside to work as we socially distance. Here are some tasks that have been going on over the past week. BayThorpe Shed has done a superb job repanelling the rear of the Scout Hut/ Shed. Slats were damaged and rotted. See the difference! BayThorpe…

Theory into Practice of Compassion (Part 4 and final!)

We start with some theory. In theory, the Velux roof windows in the storage extension at Staithes Shed that we have waited quite a while to install should have gone in easily. In practice we ended up having to reposition roof trusses! Not such an easy job. However, Brian, Martin…

Theory into Practice of Compassion (Part 3)

We now reach the heart of the “into Practice” bit of the Frome Project story. The early chapters dealt with the prior stories of some key people – why they fitted with their skill sets. Also, what the nature of compassion is and its centrality to human life – particularly…

Theory into Practice of Compassion (Part 2)

Compassion, a rediscovered remedy? Chapter 3 us about malnourishment. Not the work of food banks but the work of organisations tackling issues surrounding isolation, loneliness and despair. So, quality of life in what one might call the wellbeing and spiritual domains. To quote, “What is certainly the case is that…

Theory Into Practice of Compassion (Part 1)

Graham started to read the book on the The Compassion Project on Thursday evening. It is subtitled “A case for hope & humankindness from the town that beat loneliness”. Just in case you stumble on this blog in isolation, the town is Frome, Somerset. Although Graham knew a lot about…

The Town That Cured Loneliness

Yes, Frome in Somerset. Patrick Abrahams of Frome Men’s Shed kindly forwarded an article from last weekend’s Telegraph Magazine. Plus news we can announce of an initiative that has been forming in Whitby District since just before lockdown that has essentially the same underlying objective as in Frome for our…

Happinesses

Remember Ken Dodd’s song “Happiness, Happiness, the finest thing that I possess”? What may be some of the elements that can contribute to it? Read on and think on! Does Shedding have a part to play? Here is the take of a Yale University professor. As you can read, she…

Getting Ready

We are getting ready for the reopening of our Sheds but we are not yet ready except for socially distanced work in the open air with no more than 6 persons and some inside maintenance with two people present for safety reasons. Elaine located a source for hand sanitiser (Trillo’s)…

Keeping more in touch now and in the future

The Covid lockdown has made us realise how important we are to each other. It’s true of our relationships with others. Keeping in touch has become increasingly important and necessary over the past 3 months. Onto the scene has come videoconferencing (though its been lurking for a long time!). Seeing…