Rolling Onward

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,…

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Sheds are for Wellbeing

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…

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Gathering Breath

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….

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The Skills Shop – a possible new take on the familiar Shed plus Pitch for Purpose & NELD Day plus Gift Aid and a Golden Egg Cup!!

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…

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Donations Please

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…

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Looking Forward

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…

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Waving the Flag for the New Year

Registered Charity Number 1212037Monday 6th January sees the Shed restarting after a Christmas snooze. However, the Shedders have not been asleep. For a start, preparations (i.e. planning) have continued for upgrading the outside of the portacabin with steel sheeting and new patio door covers.  Then sometimes people find us hard…

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Nearing the End of 2024

Registered Charity Number 1212037It’s time for Norton Shedders to reflect on 2024. A few have been with the project for the past nearly three years but this year has seen a real uptick in numbers because the Shed has been expanded. Expanded in numbers (we often have 15 – 20…

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THE SHED

Registered Charity Number 1212037The Shed was busy last week and will be next week beyond the Shed perimeter. In the community. On Saturday 14th December we are at the Green Market event at Red House School junior campus. It is a monthly market orchestrated by our friend Helen Deehan. We…

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Little Things Mean a Lot

Registered Charity Number 1212037Where this blog goes will depend on what we see. The little actions and simple words that can easily go unmarked. Let’s start with an encouraging email that arrived on Sunday morning. An email from someone met at the Tree Festival opening as we still struggled to…

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Facebook

Registered Charity Number 1212037It all comes down to people and faces Early on today the Tuesday cohort (numbering 18 according to the photographic evidence) assembled around each of the 3 display items we have created for the Children’s Remembrance Service over the past 3 years. Whilst quite a few have…

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Back to Normality

Registered Charity Number 1212037The Life of Brian Brian is a very productive member of the team. He is often helped by the Sorcerer’s Apprentice Pat.  The Portacabin houses a manger Ross and Graham have worked on this nativity to be displayed outside St. Mary’s during the Tree Festival. The Railway…

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Helping Deliver Justice

Registered Charity Number 1212037Justice rightly incorporates punishment but it should also include restoration of the individual and reparation to a victim (a person or indeed Society). Getting the balance right is not always easy. Below are three items that link Norton and Whitby Sheds with the justice system at the…

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Shedding Light Into Cancer

Registered Charity Number 1212037Shedding Light Into Cancer is a new Norton Men’s Shed stream designed for men who have a cancer diagnosis and are working through the personal consequences of it. Cancer comes in different forms but the most common is connected to men’s waterworks. In the UK, about 1…

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Making Their Mark

Registered Charity Number 1212037Making a mark can be achieved in many ways.  Here’s a few from this week at the Shed. < BrianH had never touched a lathe until about 6 weeks ago.  Just look at the fruit bowl in the photo alongside.  All his own work.  Brian has certainly…

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A Pleasing Thursday Morning

Registered Charity Number 1212037Today, 19th September 2024, was the first of the new “Shedding Light Into Cancer” sessions for men with a cancer diagnosis.  Pleasing 1 We had no idea how many men might attend. We imagined it may be 4 or 5 but would have been very happy to…

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Login To Our Life

Registered Charity Number 1212037The blog title is one that belongs to others. Two others who are married  (plus dog!) and are staff at the Camping & Caravanning site in Northumberland where Graham stayed the past few days.  Graham had quite a chat with them when swapping a gas cylinder (there’s…

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Let an Adventure Begin

Registered Charity Number 1212037The Cambridge Dictionary defines an adventure as “to do something that is unusual, exciting, and possibly dangerous“. An adventure is more a feeling of challenge than something that is “packaged”.  It is something that stretches over time and has twists and turns to it – uncertainty. It…

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The Best Thing This Week

Registered Charity Number 1212037Over the past few weeks Dodgy Dave has been quite unwell and hospitalised more than once.  Cavalry Kevin has been a regular visitor but last Thursday Graham visited Dave late afternoon.  Dave was snoring like a baby as was the patient in the next bed. Synchronised snoring…

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Sunshine

Registered Charity Number 1212037The last week (July into August) has at last delivered some sunny and even warm days. Days when it is a joy to be able to work outside at the Shed as well as within. Not only are a couple of bikes propped up against the football…

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Upcycling

Registered Charity Number 1212037New is not always best.  We love Pre-Loved. Needing a “new” band saw we did the obvious and searched online.  Many remarkably similar machines that were simply different brandings of equipment made en masse in China!  However, we were fortunate to be offered a second hand considerably…

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Fired Up

Registered Charity Number 1212037There’s a lot firing us up at Norton Shed. Let’s run through some of it. This is a model just made by Shedder Kevin of a World War II cannon.                           And here is the 2/3…

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