Peebles & DisTrict Men's Shed
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A community space for men, and women to connect, converse and create. Our activities are often similar to those you might undertake in your garden shed, but rather than being on your own, we prefer that you enjoy your chosen activity in the company of others. We have only two stated aims, which are to improve health and well being by providing a space for meaningful physical activity, and reducing social isolation. Most importantly though, there has to be a laugh and a cup of tea involved along the way. The photos scrolling here show just some of what we have been up to in our journey towards our new permanent home in School Brae. Walls have been scraped and painted, floors repaired, a new power supply for our machinery installed, work benches built, model railways created and much, much more. Come down and see for yourself. What have you got to lose?
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The Peebles & District Men's Shed Community
We now occupy three rooms on the ground floor of the Community Hub, School Brae Peebles. What was previously the indoor bowls room has now been totally refurbished and fitted with work benches and a new power and lighting supply and will shortly be equipped with £11,000 worth of brand new machinery including lathes, a band saw, a planer thicknesser, pillar drills and much more. Two of our benches have been built at a height suitable for use by wheelchair users. The old lounge bar is currently being transformed into a new social and crafting/modelling space complete with a new tea and coffee ‘bar’, and comfortable seating. There is access from here to our outside space in what was the beer garden.[/caption]
- Work benches, some with adaptations for wheelchair use
- Craft work and artists space, indoor and outdoor.
- Tools for woodworking, metal working, bike repair and light engineering projects
- Modelling space including model railway building
May, 2024. A public consultation has been launched by Scottish Borders Council to test the public response to our proposal to obtain a lease over Hay Lodge Depot for use as our new long term home. You voted overwhelmingly for that to happen. Fast forward to today and a second public consultation is now taking place to test the public response to our offer of £1.00 to purchase the building. Why didn’t the first response make things happen you may ask. The answer is simple. The building needs many tens of thousands of pounds spent on it to make it safe and fit for purpose. The building owners, Peebles Common Good Fund were unwilling to sanction any expenditure and we believe the only way forward is for us to raise the funding to turn this into the viable Community Asset it deserves to be. Community Asset Transfer of buildings like this is a legal process, as is the need for the eight week long public consultation we are now two weeks into. We can’t change that, but you can help by adding your name to the growing body of support for this move we already have. Thank you for that support. At the moment it is the only thing that is keeping us going. The consultation can be accessed here, or by calling in to the County Buildings and filling out a paper copy.
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Hay Lodge Depot, Peebles: Community Asset Transfer Request – Scottish Borders Council – Citizen Space
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Congratulations to Reuben Singleton who has become our number 1,000 follower on Facebook. As promised a small gift will be delivered to Rueben shortly. We managed to increase our followers from about 970 to 1001 in just a few days. There was a serious point to this. You will hopefully know by now that our plans to take ownership of Hay Lodge Depot are currently being tested by Scottish Borders Council in a public consultation. Having a solid foundation demonstrable by a growing following on social media is another way we can demonstrate to both the Council and to our elected Councillors, who will make the final decision on this matter, that we mean business and that we have the public firmly behind us. We will have a decision by early next year. We remain hopeful of a positive outcome. …
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Thank you to everyone who has taken the trouble to complete the public consultation running at present regarding our application to take ownership of Hay Lodge Depot. Now we need to work on those of you who haven’t yet done so. The link we posted on Monday will be valid for eight weeks. Sorry to any of you who tried to complete it yesterday when SBC took their website off line for a bit. Final ask. We now have almost 1000 followers on Facebook. Wouldn’t you like to be that person? As a wee incentive there is a nice hand turned dish waiting for you as a gift from us for your continued support. …
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