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Men in Sheds get People Moving Again

Monday 5 November, 2018




Retirement, loss
of a partner or long
term sickness can often
conspire to isolate men
at different stages of
their lives. Some men
retreat to their shed
which often reinforces
the situation but Men in
Sheds is better than a
shed at the bottom of
the garden. It’s a place
to meet like minded
gentlemen for company
whilst at the same time
using skills learned
over a lifetime or to
learn new skills to do
something worthwhile for
the community. The
by-product of this is
that men find they have
a new purpose in life
resulting in a new found
confidence and
satisfaction as well as
forming friendships
which go beyond the
Shed.






Men in Sheds in
Warmley on the outskirts
of Bristol have been
lending their expertise
to help Legs4Africa,a
Bristol based charity
that provides physical
rehabilitation and
emotional support to
African amputees by
recycling redundant or
outgrown prosthetic legs
donated from UK
hospitals and
individuals.






Mervyn Bishop who
runs the Warmley Men in
Sheds says: ‘We use the
same workshop as the
Bristol group of the
charity Tools for Self
Reliance who refurbish
tools and sewing
machines so that
Africans can earn their
own living. So when
Legs4Africa asked if we
could dismantle legs to
go to Africa, we were
immediately sympathetic
to what Legs4Africa were
doing.





In the first 6
months of working
together we have
dismantled about 300
legs – we think
Legs4Africa is having a
job to keep up with us!’
- Mervyn Bishop



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