External Events
External events and activities
The Frome Shed attends a range of external events, both to undertake work for other groups in Frome, to exhibit or speak at events on Men's Sheds, Health matters, or other Community gatherings.
- Building Quoits games kits and assembling with children at the Children's Festival -June 2019
- Support to the Edventure Students - Launching a "younger Persons Shed" - May 2019
- Making Bird boxes at the "Make It Happen" Youth festival - Frome 11th & 12th March 2019
- Presentation to the AGE UK Bath Men's Shed Launch - Martin Bacon and Paul Fine 6th March 2019
- Frome Shed at the UKMSA Conference - "Shedfest" - 17th November 2018
- Donation of a SIP Planer/Thicknesser to the Westbury Community Shed 24th October 2018
- Great Western Sheds meet at the Corsham Shed for the Memory Shed review 19th October 2019
- Opening of the Wells Community Shed - Heads Up Wells, 12th October 2018
- Talk to Hobbs Rehabilitation - Evercreech - 19th September 2018
- Opening of the Calne Shed Workshop 18th September 2018
- Donation of tools to the Castle Cary "Tools for Self reliance" Group - 18th September 2018
- Frome Women's Shed at the Frome Agricultural and Cheese Show - 8th September 2018
- Talk to Frome Probus Lunch - 21st August 2018
- Wooden Coaster blanks for a Workshop at the Gaunts House Summer Gathering - 9-12 August 2018
- Bird boxes and bat roost making at the Children's Festival - 8th July 2018
- Launch of Midsomer Norton Men's Shed - 1st June 2018
- Frome Women's Shed at ‘Improve, Don’t Move’ (Frome Town Hall) 19th May 2018
- Wildlife & Wonder - Asham Woods - Making bird boxes and bat roosts - 5th May 2018
- Listen to the Asham Wood magic birdsong - See below
- "Improving Lives" at the Frome Jobcentre - 19th April 2018 - Men & Women's Sheds
- Older Peoples Information Event - Cheese & Grain 16th April 2018
- Remakery: Frome voting promotion: ASDA & Sainsburys 14th/15th April 2018
- Donation of tools to the Castle Cary "Tools for Self reliance" Group - 20th March 2018
- Speaker at Marnhull Men's Shed Meeting - 17th February 2018
- Speaker at Wells Shed Meeting – 23rd January 2018
- Meeting with the Women’s Shed – Wincanton(Balsam Centre) - 16th & 23rd January 2018
- Making Bird boxes & Bat Roosts - Frome Council & Critchill School 11th & 25th Jan. 2018
- Melksham Shed Skittle Evening – 8th January 2018
See the details of these since the launch of the Frome Men's Shed in May 2014:-
1st January 2017 to 31st December 2017
- Shedders Christmas Lunch =- At the Woolpack, Beckington – 21st December 2017
- Speaker at Wells Shed Meeting - 12th December2017
- Speaker at the UK Men's Sheds Association "Shedfair" - 23-Nov-2017, Northampton
- Presentation to the Willowbank Carers Group - Wells 15-Nov-2017
- Guest at the YMCA Mendip 125th Anniversary celebrations Wells Cathedral (21-Oct-2017)
- The Storyteller’s Bardic Chair of Somerset at Rook Lane 19-Oct-2017
- Exhibitor at "Improving Lives" Event at the Frome Jobcentre Plus 19-Oct-2017
- Exhibitor at "Come Together Again" - Frome Library 09-Oct-2017
- Speaker and Exhibitor at the Yate Men's Shed Launch 05-Oct-2017
- Donation of tools to the Castle Cary "Tools for Self reliance" Group - 19-Sep-2017
- Launch of the Shepton Mallet Area Shed - 12-Sep-2017
- Frome Men's Shed at the the Frome Agricultural & Cheese Show 09-Sep-2017
- Frome Men's Shed at the Bluebird Care Community event at Frome Town FC - 11-Aug-2017
- Frome Men's Shed at the Lions Summer Fete 10-Jun-2017(Photo by Marytn Payne)
- Men's Shed talk to Shepton Mallet Men's Shed group (07-Jun-2017)
- Men's Shed talk to "Transform Ageing" Conference, Wells, 27-Apr-2017
- Visit to Bourton on the Water Men's Shed and Reading "Silvers Workshop" - April 2017
- Men's Shed talk to the Oxford & Swindon Area Quakers Meeting - Witney (11-Mar-2017)
- Meeting regarding launch of Shepton Mallet Men's Shed (08-Mar-2017)
- Men's Shed talk to the Street Men's Shed Group (01-Mar-2017)
- Donation of tools to the Castle Cary "Tools for Self reliance" Group (21-Feb-2017)
- Men's Shed presentation to the Burnham on Sea Men's Shed Group (09-Feb-2017)
- Come together Frome Sunday (Before Blue Monday)(15-Jan-2017)