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Our Story so far…
You may have heard of the Men’s Sheds movement (click on the picture to find out more about that). In late 2024, following that lead a group of people in Derby decided they would like to set up their own ‘Shed’ in the Oakwood area. It wouldn’t be just for men though, the idea was that our ‘Shed’ would be inclusive; men and women, young and old – in short anyone who wanted to be involved would be welcome…
Get involved with our shed…
Connect
There are several ways you can get involved; ask to join our Facebook group, come to one of our regular monthly meetings, join in one of our ‘pop up’ events or meet with us at local events in Derby.
Converse
We encourage all our members to get together, chat, learn, and exchange knowledge and skills
Create
Our shed will be a creative space. Primarily a workshop but also somewhere to perhaps just meet and engage in a range of crafting or hobby activities.
In the Autumn of 2025, Oakwood Neighbourhood Shed managed to secure a partnership with Leisure United, who offered us a potential site, next to their sports facility on the Old Racecourse in Derby.
The Old Racecourse is next door to Derbyshire County Cricket Ground and we are excited to start planning the site for our new Shed there. It will take planning, finance and effort to realise our ambition, but with your help we hope to get there during 2026.
Click on the logo image or button below to see our plans for the project…
Latest News
Read about all the latest adventures we are having getting our Shed up and running. Click on a story title to read more…
Two More Shed Stalls
July 7, 2026
ONS features at The Chaddesden Big One and Oakfest The day after we opened our Hub in the Racecourse Park – the shed team were back at it again , fund raising at the Chaddesden Big One festival and just a few weeks later on July 5th we had out gazebo out again at the
The Racecourse shed is open for business !
July 7, 2026
Getting Base Camp Ready for Opening Hot on the heels of our completion of Phase One came the completion of phase Two – this added a scurity fence and outlines the area we plan to use for our future development on phase 3 and 4 – you can read more about our project to bring
Phase One “Base Camp” Completed !
May 5, 2026
DAY ONE Phase one of our project to create a new permanent home for the shed group has been a long time coming – you can read more about our project to bring about a community craft hub here https://oakwoodshed.org.uk/the-shed/ Phase One of the project is to create an initial small workshop and storage facility