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 event is being held this year at another St. Mary’s in Norton.
Staithes Shed is finishing off the finer details of the greenhouse and possibly is even into limited use for growing.
Here is a link to Norton Shed site to a post that includes some Sheddy stuff at sea and an interesting colouring project that possibly fits the Doing Places. It’s a Virgin Cruise (no comment please) but Graham has discovered that board games and pub games are popular. Doing things!
Rob reports on Whitby Town Shed and Doing Project
Really good to see Michael with Jill again!
Something about monkeys
Graham and Joan joined the monkeys on Bali. 100, 000 apparently.
Graham reflected that evening on how similar Shedders in Sheds are to monkeys in troops. No rudeness in this honestly but something quite positive about the way a troop or a Shed functions. Both are social units.
The maquette monkeys Graham met seemed to be quietly content to eat on monkey nuts (!) as they mover about in the heat with no apparent work to do other than to entertain tourists!
A guide pointed out that they were all individuals. Some to be wary of and not touch (or even stare at) whilst others could be approached. Watch mothers with young who are very protective of them and Big Daddy is never that far away if anything out of the normal happens.
They are a family. To the casual observer (me) its not that easy to see how it all works. Why do squabbles not break out? (perhaps they do!). There seems to be the unwritten law of the jungle that all contribute to the stability and sustainability of the troop and have a role in passing on the codes of acceptable behaviour to future generations.
There is Troop leadership but it exists not just in a top down top dog way but infiltrates at all levels. They all live together to survive together.
Not at all realistic. Just old age.
In modern Western societies there are much looser family ties of geography than there used to be. Our families get split up (hence Graham’s Aussie son!).
SHEDs bring back a bit of the family structure to life. Leadership (Graham would say) not coming from a “committee” but from across the Shed profile. Different personalities, skills, aptitudes, strengths, weaknesses etc. But being brought to bear from within nit from top down. All feeling a responsibility to the next generation of monkeys (I mean Shedders). That also means adopting change for the good of all when change may not be what I’m keen on!!
The Men’s Shed remains the central concept to the operation and the benefits it provides for those interested in a “workshop”. The Sheds here and in North Yorkshire also look to expand the net to include people with different interests – and women too!
Hence the importance of the Doing Place concept. The benefits of a Shed reaching not just Shedders but Doers!
Some good news for Norton. Funding from NHS Waiting Well programme
Whitby Town Shed has two sums from NHS Mental Health Transformation. One for Whitby Doing Place to develop further and the other for prototype Buddy Light (see previous post).
Norton has just heard it has been successful with an application for funding towards Norton Doing Place, a project along similar lines to Whitby of course. It will be on a Monday morning at a different venue to the Shed because there is no room at the inn (err Shed). Starting up in late January.
Other funding update
There are two applications (one for Whitby Town and one for Norton) to a suicide prevention programme through the Cabinet Office. Outcomes are now hoped for before Christmas.
Staithes Shed is also gearing up for an opportunity to bid for ongoing development and BayThorpe is, of course, en route to purchasing the Scout Hut. Application for funding to go in shortly.
Well done all Sheds for being on move and doing.
Staithes blessed by a rainbow
Hi all….
Well today started with a rainbow over Staithes ….
so we progressed with attaching the polycarbonate to the front of the greenhouse with Phill and Ken working on the left side and Jim and Brian on the right side ….
Later Liz arrived and continued her sterling work of painting on the wood preservative….
as usual we started and finished with a brew of Brian’s finest tea……
we also planned our Xmas buffet for Thursday 14 the December…
so any shedders passing please call in for a cuppa and festive snack ….
Regards….Jim
Sleights “Men with No Shed” has started
At Ingham Close Community Centre (Monday pm).
Rob and Bryn decided to pop along to say hello and who did they find there but Phillip Barlow of Land Rover and Lockdown Zoom fame.
They had a bacon butty and cuppa and shared a social time.