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…
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 BayThorpe Shed : in…
What happens there? This is what anyone not connected with a Shed or The Doing Place says when they are mentioned by someone who does attend or maybe by a social prescribing link worker helping a patient to get a little more zip into life! Both activities are rooted in…
I wonder what this blog title will lead to after the first item which sparked the title! Rob at Whitby Shed wrote this brief note over the weekend. Back at the Shed today to assist Aiden and Co making shields. These are for the YHA Children’s Viking Project, with swords…
Picking up bits of news about the Whitby Sheds Today some at Whitby were busy repairing and sprucing up the Christmas Shed to be displayed at St. Mary’s on the cliff top for a few weeks. Do visit to see the veritable forest of Trees of all sorts. A similar…
Just introducing the Woodworking Show and other Sheds attending there There was a two hour slot for Shedders from different Sheds to meet up informally to chat. Rachel Meadows of UKMSA was the host. Lots of banter as new contacts made. Scouts &…
The unknown can often feel scary. Make a start and often the fear slips away. That’s our experience. Another busy day at Staithes today ….nice to see Aidan working his magic on the 3D printer/CNC /laser cutter magic machine…..he also had time to help with greenhouse roof which was much…
Brrrrr. What a sudden change in weather conditions. It’s time to batten down the hatches. Summer is behind and winter draws on! Jim o’Staithes writes, An extra shift at the shed today …..now we’re having some cold mornings we started with the warmth from the wood burner and Brian’s cuppa…
An impressive display at the Doing Place with Krampus Krew laying a carpet! Notice Lawrence decorating DAG’s motorbike in the background! Into Podcast territory again this week with a group recording with 6 people. The full sound version will appear below once “tidied up”. Now injecting a clip of Elaine…
Monday’s child is fair of face . . . Judge for yourselves bur here is Jim’s Greenhouse Report for 2nd October Well today was as productive as ever …..but commenced firstly with a cuppa of Brian’s finest tea…..( and biscuits ) …today we focused on the interior back wall and…
At the moment Shed life is full of . . . . life. Many things that are aimed at meeting new or wider needs for people in our communities. This is a repeated image but the picture is a thousand words. It represents dogged determination with smiles on the faces.…
Starting with Staithes Shed Phill got Staithes into the press this month via the Whitby Advertiser. Staithes put a great spurt on and is fast sprinting to the finish line of the greenhouse and the start line of actually growing in it! Well done Phill. Festival of Thrift proved…
When Sheds are founded everything is in the future. The challenge comes a couple of years on and more once the work o establishing a Shed (the first excitement) is over. The good news is that Sheds are about people – the then Shedders but also those yet to be.…
