Whitby District 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

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.

Whitby Community’s Compassion project

This is a new blog to bring together information gathered on Frome’s Compassion Project of the past 6 years. We are now embarking on Whitby District’s own project. Who is the “we”? That’s a question that is not simply answered other than to say “the Whitby District Community”. Clearly there…

New blogs are added below. Those above are “Sticky” and remain where they are!

New blogs begin below.

Contributions from some Shedders

It is important to keep our hands doing (if we can) but also our minds. Here is a contribution from Staithes Shedder Malcolm who is not back at the Shed because of family vulnerabilities. He can still participate by forwarding tit-bits! “A bit of light relief from Virus and…

Branching Out

Three new ventures in the making possibly (actually concerned with making too!) Kits4Kids Shedder Bob has been doing a good sideline trade at the Sleights Shed making Teddy Bear chairs from sticks. He’s been selling them alongside his walking sticks in one or two of his outlets. He also makes…

World Mental Health Day

A message from BBC Look North on Thursday about World Mental Health Day led to some hasty arrangements to film about the role of Sheds in positive mental health of men and women and in combating the risk of suicides, particularly in men. We were particularly pleased that…

Covid impact

Graham has family in Victoria, AU. Not in Melbourne which is a relative hot spot. Bin Lady is amusing as a piece of fun but less so for those involved for real. Graham loves the mention of Bunning (they took over rather unsuccessfully UK Homebase). In Australia they are regarded…

Blockbuster Sheds

Janine Pemberton (of Whitby Eskmouth Scouts and Kidz Making Good) forwarded a blockbuster trailer very appropriate to Sheds. You don’t buy a life, you build it! What blockbusters there will be at our Sheds in the coming week awaits to be seen. Well, here is a blockbuster project that’s…

Shedding in 6’s

Six at Staithes today (Monday 21/9/20). Conforming to rules. We also laid plastic sheeting on the area behind the Garden Club shed we cleared last week and ordered a dumpy back of stones to spread on it it. Technically, it is, we believe, called landscaping. At SAMS in Sleights we…

Chris Fisher, “The Blind Woodturner”

“At my lowest, I did consider suicide” Published 15th September 2020 in Shoulder to Shoulder, the UK Men’s Shed Association newsletter 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…

Whitby Community’s Compassion project on the move

Progressing, but also on the move to a new web-site www.whitbycompassion.org.uk The article in Whitby Gazette last Thursday put a stake in the ground for the Compassion project. If you missed it, here it is below: Don’t expect to see some great edifice rising because we are at the stage…

Great to be heading back into Sheds

September marks the beginning of the return to school and return to Sheds. We’ve been doing work outside and some maintenance inside (with slight variation between the four venues) but today we were back in a growing number at Staithes. We got on with roofing the “wood rack alley” at…

Compassion in Covid-19 times

Covid-19 struck in terms of lockdown in March 2020. There were many practical challenges that impacted almost all of us. How to adjust our lives to fit with unprecedented restrictions on freedom of movement and freedom to associate. Schools close, offices closed, home working (if possible) became the new normal.…