What's happening in the Shed?
Wells-next-the-Sea Men's Shed
Each month news items of developments regarding the Wells Mens Shed are printed in the columns of our local community magazine - The Quay. The circulation of The Quay is about 1500 but confined to homes and businesses around the Town. So we have decided to repeat our copy here to reach a wider audience and those Shedders who live in the surrounding villages. Back issues are viewable on The Quays website - www.quaypublishing.co.uk. We aim to make this a regular feature and here is the Wells Mens Shed copy from the latest Quay issue, enjoy:
Copy for The Quay Jan 2021 At first blush we thought there would be little to report about the Wells Mens Shed this past month, since we closed shop over the festive period and cancelled all meetings. However, as they say you don’t know what happens behind closed doors! Well some enterprising Shedders have been busy researching solutions for renewable energy, in particular solar energy. The significance here is that we have no mains electricity at the Shed, instead relying on the cordless power tools kindly provided by the Central England Co-operative Community Fund, these supplement our traditional hand held tools for our projects. Generating our own electricity off grid through renewables has been a long term goal. The challenge though is to raise sufficient funds to purchase the equipment to cover the installation. We have received quotations from various industry experts and will now apply for funding. After all that has happened it would be nice to kick start the new year with some positive developments. Ambitious but we hope before 2021 is out we will have mains electricity and our new metalwork shop fully operational. A number of people have expressed their interest in joining the Mens Shed when we have electricity and a metalwork shop so please come forward and get in touch and help us set this up. We have been pleased to have opened exploratory talks with Sarah Peberday, General Manager at the Wells Community Hospital and her team about how we can collaborate on community projects. There are a number of creative ideas on the table but they will have to wait until the Covid landscape changes before we can safely proceed. Similarly we are exploring the prospect of servicing some cycles at the Alderman Peel High School, but again timing is an issue. So, although on site has, and will remain limited, other initiatives are going on behind the scenes. As always, if you would like more information please visit us at http:www.wellsnexttheseamensshed.weebly.com , or email us at [email protected]
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