Welcome to the Freehold Community Men's Shed

What is a Men’s Shed?

A Men's Shed is a larger version of the typical man’s shed in the garden - a place where he feels at home and pursues practical interests with a high degree of autonomy. A Men's Shed offers this to a group of such men where members share the skills and resources they need to work on projects of their own choosing at their own pace and in a safe, friendly and inclusive venue. They are places of skill-sharing and informal learning, of individual pursuits and community projects, of purpose, achievement and social interaction. A place of leisure where men come together to work.

A Shed’s activities can involve making or mending in wood (e.g. carpentry, joinery, turning, carving, whittling, marquetry, furniture renovation) and may include activities as varied as bike repair, gardening, vehicle repair, tool renovation, upholstery, boat renovation, model engineering, milling, turning in plastics, etc. Reclamation, reuse and restoration will feature strongly - and some say that is true of the men too! Whatever activities are pursued the essence of a Men’s Shed is not a building, which some don’t have, but the network of relationships between the members.