Bordon Men’s Shed and TWAM
The members of the Bordon Men’s Shed have and will continue to help craftsmen in other countries not as prosperous as ours. This is achieved by providing a collection service for unwanted tools and equipment. These come from ‘garage clear-outs’, craftsmen and engineers who decide to stop continuing with their hobby, either from illness or through age concerns, and family members perhaps wanting to donate such tools and equipment following a bereavement.
Bordon Men’s Shed has been doing this for some years now and arranged for TWAM (Tools With A Mission – A Christian charity sending tools across the world – see https://www.twam.uk/) to come and collect our latest donation. As Keith Holburn of TWAM Says:
‘TWAM have 5 vans nationwide and the South Central Van based in Aldershot has covered 43,000 miles this year. Our collection today (31st July) was the last pickup having travelled from Aldershot down to Chichester, then via a collection at Petersfield Men’s Shed to Bordon before returning to Aldershot. The van is scheduled to take the tools to TWAM HQ in Ipswich tomorrow (1st August). So far TWAM has delivered 20 container loads of repaired and refurbished tools to many very grateful people in various countries.’
Last year TWAM delivered to a number of countries in Central and Southern Africa twenty 20ft containers of repaired and refurbished tools which are creating livelihoods and transforming lives.
Attached photographs show Bordon Men’s Shed member Ted Wood and Keith Holburn, Member of the TWAM Board of Trustees and Van Manager (South Central) loading the van and showing some of the load.
Bordon Men's Shed 