We were honoured to be present at the unveiling of a memorial bench at Noadswood School today for former student Ben Pavitt, who passed away 4 years ago today from cancer. Ben liked to sit and think on a rainbow bench that we have in Marchwood, hence the design.

Happy Birthday to us! It was 3 years ago today that a group of us got together with a plan to form a Men’s Shed and to work on projects to benefit the village. At the time we had no tools, no workshop and no idea how it would work. Since then we’ve set up our workshop, forged great friendships and completed countless community projects. We’ve become a registered charity and work hard to deliver projects to local organisations and other charities without seeking funding from t

Another £30 transferred across to East Boldre Hedgehog Rescue today from the recent sales of our Hedgehog Houses. This takes the running total to £230 raised for the rescue so far.

We delivered this bench to Marchwood Priory today. It is going to be installed in the grounds in the favourite spot of someone who sadly passed away recently.

It was great to help out Marchwood Village Hall this week by replacing their rotting planter with a new one.

From the offcuts of the large display boards that we made for the group of local amateur artists, we’ve made some table easels so that they can further showcase their work. The team designed them to fold flat for storage.

Marchwood Junior School asked us to create supports for some scenery to be used in their upcoming Year 6 production. We dropped them round today for a test fit. We also had our annual refresher First Aid Course today run by Steve from SJM Training & Consultancy . It was once again a brilliant session so thank you very much Steve.

We put up 8 of our bat boxes around the village today. They are mainly in Crooked Hayes Copse, but if you wanted to spot them, they are on the following map: https://www.tinyurl.com/marchwoodbats Thanks to Abby for helping to select suitable trees, the Parish Council for approving the installation and Alan for helping get them in place.

Thank you Mulberry Pre-School, Marchwood  for bringing us some strawberries grown in the raised beds that we built for you, how amazing is that?

A bean bag toss game for Marchwood C of E Infant School  with a fruity theme!

Little Gardners  got in touch to ask if we could make some wooden roads for the children to play with. After final inspection from Sid the Sausage Dog, they are good to go! The team also made them a storage box.

A well cover that we made for a friend of the Shed.

In addition to yesterday’s uninvited visitor, Jill also managed to capture a Nuthatch in one of our nest boxes. (Photo credit Jill Goddard)

Oi, get out of there, we didn’t make that for you (Photo credit Jill Goddard)

A little project for Mulberry Pre-School,  turning some left over timber they had into 3 raised beds / planters for the children.

We’ve made this for the Waterside Foodbank , but can anyone guess what it’s going to be?! Hint: It’s to help with fundraising at events.

Another 2 boot scrapers made, this time for Marchwood Parish Council . Thanks to Rob and Alan for modelling them so beautifully

A Tombola / Raffle spinner made for New Beginnings Neonatal Charity  who raise money for the Princess Anne Neonatal Unit in Southampton....

We’ve been talking to the landowner about making another one for the other side of the concrete bollard to add more colour and symmetry,...

Nipped out to wash the sign with our planter attached on Bury Road to see it was already done. No doubt by our amazing MPC ground staff...