10th of May saw the Group’s first Pop up shed, an important landmark in our development of the shed. This gave us the opportunity to meet, connect, converse, and create. Group members met at the Oakwood Community Centre in glorious weather to work together assembling bird boxes, bat boxes, and bug hotels from materials which we had prefabricated. The day had three key goals:
Enjoy working together as a maker community
To publicise the activities of our group and attract new members
To produce craft items we can sell on our stall
Our handiwork will be available on the group stall at this year’s “Big 1” and “Oakfest”. Shedders rolled up at 10am to set up and as the weather was so good – most of our activities were carried out on the terrace in front of the building and soon we were attracting the attentions of passers by – we spent as much time talking to interested member of the public and hopefully have encouraged several potential new members to join us.
Our local Councillors Matt and Freya dropped in to see how we were progressing, which gave us an opportunity to discuss our plans for a permanent home and further funding opportunities to support our activities.
Coffee and bacon sandwiches (Thanks to our Hosts Geoff and Sharon for loan of their frying pan!) added to the sense of community and our shedders all came away that evening with a sense that we had had a good day out and made a positive effort for the shed. Plans are already afoot to have another similar activity for this summer – so watch our forthcoming events page for information!