Bordon Men's Shed

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.

The next meeting of Bordon Men’s Shed is on Tuesday 10th September at 1.30 in the library.

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The next meeting of the Bordon Men’s Shed is on Tuesday 16th July at 1.30pm in the Bordon library. All interested shedders are invited to attend.

Men’s Shed build a Potting Table

We were told today that the Beer Fest at The Tap in The Shed, Bordon on the weekend of 14/15th June raised £1600 from donations by sponsors, which was passed to the Bordon Men’s Shed by prior arrangement with Ed Spice, The Tap manager. We would like to sincerely thank all the sponsors for their generous donation, and the public who came along and drank the beer!

The money will go towards the building of the new Men’s Shed behind the Phoenix Theatre when the time comes. We hope we will be able to open soon. We hope we will be able to open soon. This is a picture of our chairman displaying some of our projects.

The Bordon Men’s Shed Logo

Big thanks to Ed and the Team at The Tap at The Shed for the support of the Bordon Men’s Shed this past weekend. All support is gratefully received and we will continue to work to get our new workshop up and running.

is on Tuesday 11th June at 1.30 pm in the Bordon Library. All those interested in the progress of the Men’s Shed, please come along. Coffee, Tea and biscuits are available.

Thanks to Woolmer Forest Timebank, I was invited to speak to their meeting on 5th June, which was held in Cafe 1759. I was glad to attend and give the members an outline of what Men’s Sheds are and the progress (or lack of!) progress on the Bordon Men’s Shed. The assembled members were very supportive and asked some interesting questions, most of which I knew the answer to, luckily.

Hopefully some more members can go along to one of the many Timebank meetings and events in the future.

On Friday 14th June to Sunday 16th June The Tap at The Shed will be hosting a beer fest. The timings are:

Friday 14th June, 5.00pm to 10.00pm

Saturday 15th June 4.00pm to 10.30PM

Sunday 16th June, all day.

The Bordon Men’s Shed will be at the Beer Fest to promote what we do and give updates on our reopening. Please come and talk to us about the Men’s Shed and see what we can offer when we open.

Thanks to The Tap and Ed Spice for allowing us to set up a stall.