The exchange provided the opportunity for the Govan Shedders to travel to East Kilbride to share experiences on how they’ve set up their shop and workshop. Our aim to have a better layout for our workshop means our Men’s Shed will be able to be more productive, run more projects in our local community for other groups and complete more requests from local community members. Such as playground repairs, benches and raised beds for local Primary schools and Nurseries. The tour really helped give an in depth understanding of the whole set up for approaches to bring back to Govan.

Learning Outcomes

• To find out about dust extraction systems for wood-workshop that other sheds use and try to gain expertise from those who already have one in place.
• Gaining ideas for a workshop re-design – what works for other sheds and good ways of workshop layout.
• The challenges of setting up and moving premises

"We were over the moon when the East Kilbride shedders very kindly agreed to for us to 'steal' some of their ideas! Our Shed is very busy at the moment getting ready for our Christmas Fair fundraiser which can generate a lot of income for us so we particularly enjoyed seeing the different ideas they had for their many creations."