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.

Couple of News Items from Today’s posts

Ending the throwaway culture and built in obsolesce of what we use and do. This ought to be joy to the Sheds:-) BBC news headline about new Right to Repair legislation coming into force. It also affects smaller and more portable appliances than big white goods! https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-57665593 Plus, sewing…

Bedding in nicely

Really pleased with the way the Sheds are re-establishing themselves as Welcome Breaks! Planters don’t come much bigger than this metre square one being made in Staithes Shed for Maggie’s daughter Lisa. Should be finished and delivered this week after Thursday’s session. …

Breaking the silence!

We’ve missed the Sheds. Glad to be back together again. It’s been a rollercoaster 15 months or more with Covid-19 closing the Sheds in UK and particularly in Whitby District. The positive is that the bonds were strong which has enabled Shedders to stay in touch, including adopting the wonders…

Good to hear positive news

The good news is that Ed Horwood’s Pop Up Shed project to help put young offenders back on track is back up and running. Travelling back in time it was the Sheds in Littlebeck and Whitby that helped demonstrate the effectiveness of hands on 1:1 working with young people as…

Sheds help out with Zoom workshops in woodwork

Children and Young people have had a difficult time with disrupted schooling for many months. We wanted to offer them something to enjoy in the Easter break and we’ve worked with North Yorkshire Youth and a representative of the youth sub-committee of Whitby and District Rotary Club to put a…

Anyone fancy a Curry?

We’ve not idled time away during the latest lock out from the Sheds. Graham & Rob have been learning culinary skills. Brian is already more accomplished than the other two. Brian’s daughter asked why he was cooking from scratch like this. Why not buy a jar of curry sauce? Brian’s…

Renovating, Repairing, Repurposing computers (and collecting them)

‘Reboot’ is the name of a project being considered for adoption in North Yorkshire to take redundant laptops and tablets and give them extended life for children and older people who want to be affordably digitally connected. Take a look through this .pdf on the subject. If Reboot goes live,…

It takes the biscuit

Have you ever taken a screenshot at the wrong time? We had a Zoom cookery session. Rachel Meadows, new Volunteer and Community Development Manager for UK Men’s Sheds, joined to see with disbelief what we were up to. Look at Rachel’s eyes, she can barely watch the scene. Rob had…

Making an Exhibition of Ourselves on Camera

More than a year ago, pre first Covid-19 lockdown, we had begun equipping our Sheds with broadband in one form or another, TV monitor, web camera and Amazon Firestick. We pioneered online communication at Staithes and followed through at the Sleights Shed. We were about to install in Whitby and…

Crafty Crafters to watch

For She Shedders to watch . . . . but there are men in these two programmes https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000rxn0/craftivism-making-a-difference BBC iPlayer – MAKE! Craft Britain From Shedder Elaine something to smile about No Sheds but we can be crafty A quartet of Shedders have had a couple of Thursday mornings engaged…