Registered Charity Number 1212037Mental Health Awareness Week 12th – 18th May 2025 Since 2001, the Mental Health Foundation has been leading Mental Health Awareness Week – bringing the UK together to focus on getting good mental health. This year, the week takes place from 12 to 18 May 2025 and the theme…
Registered Charity Number 1212037 Shed on a Page Norton Men’s Shed (Normens) A personal perspective by Graham Storer drafted for UK Men’s Sheds Association magazine “Shoulder to Shoulder” and approved by Shed Trustees! In the beginning there were 4 Sheds in Whitby, North Yorkshire. The first was a very rural…
Registered Charity Number 1212037Wheelchair Steve is always on the roll. We have immortalised him in plastic and shrunk him to appear on our model railway, at several locations probably. Perhaps to be realistic, we ought to have a broken down lift accessed by three steps with no model staff around…
Registered Charity Number 1212037That’s the number of steps Tom Judge will take (at least!) with his fridge on his back as he walks from Teesside to Benidorm drawing attentionon to men’s mental health on Teesside and in Spain. Norton Men’s Shed met Tom Judge at the North East Ladies Day…
Registered Charity Number 1212037Locomotion is getting somewhere. The main components of the engine body are built and the boiler top cladding is being routed to give a curved effect. The wheels are now beginning to be prepared. There are twelve segments to each wheel perimeter and we are using some…
Registered Charity Number 1212037Stockton Borough Council holds an annual Community Conversation. It was an open invitation to organisations working in the Borough to help people. Powering Our Future Communities was a strategy theme chosen by the Council in the autumn of 2024. It was introduced on 8th April with a…
Registered Charity Number 1212037The UK Men’s Sheds Association has a very useful tool on it’s website that enables a person to put in their postcode and have a map show up the closest Sheds (or similar projects) to that postcode. We are just dusting off the descriptions for the 3…
Registered Charity Number 1212037Today we received a visit from Chris McDonald, MP. It follows a similar visit by Matt Vickers, MP a month ago. We had invited them and others to the Shed to discover for themselves what Norton Men’s Shed (and others locally, in UK and worldwide can do…
Registered Charity Number 1212037The Teesside Charity – Pitching for Purpose Put your hands together for our pitches Thanks to the audience’s votes, each organisation left our Pitching for Purpose event with an impressive share of £5,000, which will significantly impact their cause.The highest number of votes went to Postpartum Matters CIC, who,…
Registered Charity Number 1212037A potentially very worthwhile few minutes if you can spare the time Shedders Dear Men’s Sheds Leaders, I hope you are well. I am working with UK Men’s Sheds Association (UKMSA) to do an online survey (10 mins now and 10 mins in 3 months) and some optional interviews to help…
Registered Charity Number 1212037What you see may not be the most important thing about the Shed. There’s more than one way of seeing. Let’s see then the possible meanings of the word “seeing”. Synonyms and related words for “seeing” in the context of Roget’s Thesaurus, consider words like “perceiving” –…
Registered Charity Number 1212037Jigsaws can tell us a lot about community. Revealing techniques that can be used to build a resilient community. Jigsaw resilience comes from there being irregularly interlocking pieces. In the plane of the jigsaw as the pieces come together, the jigsaw grows stronger and holds together without…
Registered Charity Number 1212037We start with the NHS! Two surprising things concerning Sheds often become apparent and as Shedders we have an opportunity/responsibility to play our part in remedying matters. Here they are: How little some healthcare professionals know about Men’s Sheds. About their association to wellbeing and ameliorating feelings…
Registered Charity Number 1212037The next couple of weeks is only a little less fraught than last week’s onslaught! Go back a blog to see The Skills Shop, Gift Aid, NELD and a Golden Egg Cup!! Have a look at the kind of things Shedders in UK say about the Shed experience….
Registered Charity Number 1212037 Diversity is a feature of Norton Men’s Shed. Diverse people with diverse interests, diverse personalities, diverse reasons for needing a Shed and diverse skills levels. To meet these diversities we already have 3 different styles of Shed. Two days for a general Shed with a mix…
Registered Charity Number 1212037Take a look at this. It’s tops. Watch this video on YouTube Shedders, friends and family please collect plastic bottle tops (all colours) and drop them into our donations box at the Shed. HealthWatch North Yorkshire : The public’s experience of mental health services in North Yorkshire…
Registered Charity Number 1212037First surprise on Thursday morning was the notification that Normens had been confirmed a registered charity The registration number is 1212037. The pressure is off although there are some next steps. Andrew returned to say goodbye!! The Thursday Cancer Morning saw Andrew come through the door. Dennis…
Registered Charity Number 1212037This is the second postcard we have. And soon Valentine’s Day is upon us. XXX 3D Design and Printing It’s pleasing to see interest being shown by some Shedders in learning upstream design rather than just downstream printing (which can be like watching paint dry!). Paul and…
Registered Charity Number 1212037Two Birds, One Stone February 2025 marks the end of the Tesco Community award period and when an end of period online report is required in order to release the final 25% retention sum (£250). There is the opportunity to submit a link to a video about…
Registered Charity Number 1212037From a glance back at 2024, we now set sights on 2025 and some imminent activities Tesco Stronger Starts 2024, end of project report Back in the summer of 2023, we were encouraged by Tesco Extra Stockton to apply for an award under a community support programme…
