The Repair Shed
What Are Repair Sheds?
A place to make new friends and contacts, support and encourage each other and above all have fun!
The Repair Shed brings older men together to stay healthier and happier for longer by making, mending and learning. Our Repair Shed helps combat the challenges of isolation and the loss of social continuity associated with aging by providing a supportive environment in which older people who are practically minded and want to make things, do repairs, share skills and learn new ones.
The “Shedders” spend approximately 1/3 of their time on income generation through making items for sale and mending items that would otherwise go to landfill; 1/3 of their time on community projects (paid and unpaid) and 1/3 on their own personal projects.
Whilst the Shed movement was started by men, everyone is welcome, we even have a “Sewing Café” at our Redbourn Shed.
The Repair Sheds and Sewing Café run on the following days:
Monday, Wednesday and Fridays
Northchurch 10.00 am until 3 pm
Tuesdays and Wednesdays
Redbourn 9.00 am until 2.00 pm
Wednesdays and Thursdays
Sunnyside 10.00am until 3.00 pm
Thursdays – Sewing Café
Redbourn 10am until 12.30pm
Northchurch, C/O Sunnyside Trust, Upper Allotments, New Road, Northchurch, HP4 1NJ
Redbourn, C/O St Luke’s Foundation School, Crouch Hall Lane, Redbourn, Hertfordshire, AL3 7ET
Sunnyside, C/O Sunnyside Trust, Hemel Food Garden, Two Waters Road Hemel Hempstead HP3 9BY
We make, create, upcycle, repair, restore a range of wonderful items, like our HedgeHog House, Bee Hotels, Bird Boxes, Garden Shelves, Chopping Boards this list goes on, all of these items are made from reused timber and other materials, the main goal is to keep as much as we can out of landfill, repair, re-use and recycle, both our motto and our creed.
Have a look here for a small range of some of the items we create. The larger items we make to order, but we have some hand crafted smaller items for sale immediatly at out offices in The Roundhouse Marlowes, and 48 Old High Street, Hemel, our head office of Community Action Dacorum. Call 01442 253935 and ask to speak with Tony or Matt
