Community Engineers

Registered Charity Number 1212037Yesterday Graham  and Joan visited a lady recuperating in Whitby Hospital. Nothing unusual maybe in that except she is 99 not out! Moreover she still sparks as much as she did twelve years ago. Long widowed, she contributed a lot to the community in Sleights through her…

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Once again, lots going on in March

Registered Charity Number 1212037First, Walter skating on thick ice Dear Walter and the team at the Man Shed, On behalf of everyone at Billingham Ice Skating Club, we would like to extend our sincere thanks for the incredible skating boot you created for our skaters. Your craftsmanship and support mean…

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Steve Receives a Just Reward

Registered Charity Number 1212037Steve Dancsics, the Wheelchair Shedder (though we have 2 now) is someone who has helped make the Shed what it is. What it is, is inclusive of all types of people who need the Doing, Being, Belonging and Becoming that the Shed can offer. Steve is very…

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New Work on the Go

Registered Charity Number 1212037Walter starts to plan the next WW1 exhibit – a plane! Watch Walter introduce the project and his initial sketch design.  It will be about 3.5m in total wing span. He will make a small scale stick model as he did for the galleon two years ago,…

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Heading to the Year End

Registered Charity Number 1212037Here are some recent shots of things and people that are neatly coming together just in time for Christmas . . . Podcast News It was great to see Gordon commissioning the podcast recorder, working with apprentice Wheelchair Steve Gordon will then install podcast editing software, Audacity,…

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Of Cancer, Men and Sheds

Registered Charity Number 1212037We were offered the opportunity to provide a blog on our cancer doings by Cancer Care Map and it has landed on their site: Jessica Bailey wrote today . . . . Great news – your blog is now live on our site! You can view it…

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Partners in Planting New Sheds

Registered Charity Number 1212037On the Cancer Cancer Map One of the valuers of partnership is that there are others looking out to support and help.  Deb, a local NHS Link Worker covering cancer patients recommended we put Norton Shed on the Cancer Care Map. We did as you will see…

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All Change

Registered Charity Number 1212037When buses had conductors with ticket machines, “Hold very tight, please”, “Move further down the bus, please” and, at the end of the route, “All change, please” were familiar messages. Ding, ding. Do you remember the nickname of conductors? Clippies. Memories. Now it is “Tap your plastic…

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Building Bridges

Registered Charity Number 1212037Why don’t we get some Lego and see what we can build? This was a suggestion for an activity for those who are less agile these days. So today some was brought back from Whitby Shed. They are some Technical Lego sets with many specialist pieces. What…

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Norton Groups

Registered Charity Number 1212037First, here are our objects as a charity as a reminder of what we have said we aim to do. Tony needs a spindle for his staircase Here’s an invitation to Newcastle Men’s Shed, but in Australia! A draft of a one pager for Catalyst telling the…

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More Lift Offs

Registered Charity Number 1212037The first phase of the model railway is underway The first phase is an 8′ x 4′ layout that will be on 4 baseboard sections. It will be an urban setting based on a design concept Dennis has identified in a Pico portfolio. The photograph shows Dennis…

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A Rewarding Job Well Done

Registered Charity Number 1212037The back has been broken on the task of renovating the room to house Gordon and to undertake the digital inclusion projects planned. Same thing is being done in Whitby. Some snagging needed (Dennis says it will make a change to nagging!!).  We have started to purchase…

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Making Tracks

Registered Charity Number 1212037Making Tracks is the title of an application for funding made to LNER for a new project phase that would, if successful, start in April 2026. They call that a long haul. It is certainly quite a long wait.  If it is not successful will it have…

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