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Bordon Men’s Shed was commissioned by Selborne Primary School, Selborne, to construct a ‘mud’ kitchen for use by the children. Their previous mud kitchen had fallen into disrepair and was falling apart and becoming dangerous. We took on the project and collected wood from various sources, including projects in the neighbourhood that gave up theirContinue reading “Bordon Men’s Shed Build a Mud Kitchen”

The Men’s Shed was asked to produce ‘planters’ to be placed at the Canadian War Memorial in Camp Road in Bordon. Eddie from Whitehill Town Council provided decking boards and plans to build said planters in time for Remembrance Sunday in November. Accordingly construction was started for the two planters required. See picture for theContinue reading “Another project”

Our Contribution We are proud to be associated with the Iconic Bricks entry into the Bordon Soapbox Races on down Chalet Hill in the town. Reg Bettles of the Bordon Men’s Shed built the bodywork, complete with the Lego theme, which raced in those colours. Unfortunately, it didn’t win, but at least it took part.Continue reading “Bordon Soapbox Races”

The Men’s Shed programme is going well. Now we have planning permission and no requirement for building regs, we can wait for the grant to be authorised. Hopefully it will come through soon, and we can start getting our new shed up and running.

Back in March, the UK Men’s Shed Association (UKMSA) asked members to enter a competition for free Ronseal products. Apparently, Ronseal does this every year and gives away thousands of pounds worth of their products to Men’s Sheds. Bordon Mens Shed applied for products and subsequently was successful in being one of 150 Mens ShedsContinue reading “Free Products from Ronseal”

Planning Permission! We have now been granted Planning Permission from EHDC. This is temporary and must be renewed in five years time. But that is just the start; we now need to get the existing storage containers moved and to buy the site cabins to be used as our workshop. But all this means weContinue reading “Planning Permission!”

Planning permission has been granted to carry on with the completion of our project to build a new Men’s Shed in Bordon. However, this permission depends on a noise impact assessment by a professional company. The cost will be in the order of £700, but it will be money well spent if it gives usContinue reading “Sound Assessment”

The Phoenix Theatre in Bordon had a successful run with the panto Robinson Crusoe last weekend. Due in no small part to the pirate ship built by the Bordon Men’s Shed ( see photo). This was built over several days by 4 members of the Shed but most especially Reg Bettles, who devised the designContinue reading “Panto a huge Success”

The Phoenix Theatre in Bordon asked the Bordon Men’ shed to build a pirate ship for the Phoenix Players production of Robinson Crusoe taking place in the 2nd week of December. It’s a adult ‘saucy’ panto. We built the pirate ship out of an old prop shed that was left in our temporary workshop behindContinue reading “Bordon Men’s Shed builds a Pirate Ship”