Stonehouse Males’s Shed is to formally open its new premises subsequent weekend.
Members, their households, the area people and the native Shed community are all invited to the occasion on Saturday, Could 7, from 1pm until 4pm.
Stonehouse Males’s Shed, a neighborhood charity, was fashioned in 2018 after a profitable go to by the Seniors Collectively Cellular Shed to the city. The Shed was supported to get began by the Seniors Collectively Undertaking and has continued to obtain assist from the boys’s shed growth employee, Paul Creechan, who additionally helps the South Lanarkshire Males’s Shed community.
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With assist from South Lanarkshire Leisure & Tradition and Seniors Collectively, the Shed began life off assembly within the life centre on the prime of the city as soon as per week and have continued rising in reputation and numbers ever since whereas the search continued for a everlasting residence.
The time spent within the life centre allowed the group an opportunity to type a music group and uncover the pursuits of Shed members.
Paul Creechan instructed Lanarkshire Dwell: “After an in depth seek for an appropriate native constructing the previous public bogs buildings within the centre of the city had been seen as an important choice as a everlasting residence for the Shed.
“The Shed entered negotiations with council departments utilizing the Group Asset Switch Act and the lease was signed to the Shed in February 2020.
“Even by the pandemic the dedication of the Shedders by no means light, and the constructing has been fully renovated to look unrecognisable to its former use.
“I hope as many individuals as doable will come alongside to affix on this actual success story and see simply how nicely the group have performed.”
The Shed at present meets each Monday afternoon between 1pm-3pm, Thursday morning for a reminiscences group and a Thursday night for a music group.