SPRINGBURN PARK MEN'S SHED

The idea of opening a Men's Shed within Springburn Park was surveyed at the Open Doors event in June 2018, thereafter 18 men signed up and formed a steering group. Following several meetings the group was formally constituted in August 2018 and office bearers appointed. This group of men worked hard over the next few months repairing and preparing the large Nissen shed so as to be ready to open sometime in January 2019. On the 14th January 2019 The Springburn Park Men's Shed became a Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation (SC048953) and opened its doors to members on 15th January 2019.

The purpose of the organisation is to provide recreational facilities and advance the social needs, health and well being of men of all ages and backgrounds living in Springburn and surrounding areas. By;
a) Creating, developing and maintaining a facility, namely a Men's Shed
b) Offering opportunities for men in the area to meet and undertake creative, physical, purposeful and recreational activities of their choice.
c) Reducing isolation of men in the area thus contributing to their physical and mental well being.
d) Developing the capacity of men in the area to share their skills and knowledge with others in the community.

Aside the obvious health benefits that the Men's Shed can offer, it is also a place for men to meet other likeminded guys with similar interests and to engage in a range of activities that will enlarge their circle of friends and improve their quality of life.

Our Men's Shed Trustees are a dedicated group of local people with a breadth of experience across all sectors of industry. During our first year of operation our Trustees undertook extensive management committee and board training including governance, financial controls, community engagement, fundraising, monitoring & evaluation, polices & procedures and roles and responsibilities.

We have woodworking & metalworking workshop's, Pyrography class, wood carving, wood turning, IT Class, board games, a socialising and reading area and a social dining area. We are open to any new ideas so if you have a good idea, try us!

If you would like to make a donation to our Men's Shed please click on the Go Fund Me below. Thank you for your support!

SPMS Go Fund Me


2024 News & Projects

Rememberance Day 2024
We will be holding an event on Monday 11th November at 11am at our facility next to the old Boating Pond. Local residents are welcome to join us. Refreshments and sandwiches will be served at The Boathouse Lunch Club afterwards. You are welcome to chat with our members and take a short tour of our facilities and see what activities we offer our members, maybe even join our ranks.
Mosesfield Pensioners Club will also be in attendance.

The Boathouse
Currently, we are renovating the Boathouse building and toilet block. This will accommodate our Shedders and Mosesfield Pensioners Club creating a new social/dinning area and space for more desktop activities. The new toilet facilities will include a disabled toilet and baby changing facilities.

New Cycle Hub
A few of our Shedders have been trained as bicycle mechanics, with the help of Funders, we will be setting up a 'Cycle Hub' at our Shed soon.

Mosesfield Pensioners Club
Mosesfield Pensioners Club are moving into Springburn Park Community Village. More information to follow shortly.

Pyrography Group
Our new Pyrography Group are now at our new base at The Boathouse, Springburn Park Community Village. Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursdays 10-12pm and 1-3pm.

Allotment
Our allotment at Petershill is now live. It's managed by two of our Shedders, Rosie and Jay. We are looking for more volunteers with experience to look after the plot on a day to day basis. You will be given everything you need. There will be occasional planned visits by other organisations.

More exciting news to follow, watch this space!


2023 News & Projects

ASDA Christmas Stall 2nd December 10-2pm
We are so grateful to ASDA, Bishopbriggs for inviting us back again this year. Please drop by to say hello to our Shedders. To all the people who asked if they can buy the items we make at the Men's Shed, here's your opportunity to purchase something. Be early, it usually sells out fast!

Schools October Week Holiday
We were delighted to take part in an event organised by North Glasgow Healthy Living Community at Mackintosh Halls, Maryhill. Our Pyrography tutor was very impressed by the young people, how quickly they picked it up. -See photos on our media page below

Caledonian Locomotives FC
Again we would like to thank Dom McInally, Chairman for his very generous offer of FREE season tickets to our Shedders. The guys really enjoy the hospitality, and the football. C'mon the Caley!

Springburn Community Street Festival
We are taking part in Springburn Community Street Festival on Saturday 19th August, outside the shopping centre. See you there!

ASDA Market Stall (September 2023).
We're at ASDA Bishopbriggs store on 2nd September. Our Shedders have been busy building animal planters, herb gardens, pyrography and wood carvings.

Childrens Outdoor Play Equipment
Over the past few months our Shedders have been busy building outdoor play equipment for nursery and primary 1 kids. We build mud kitchens, buddy benches, picnic benches, minature front doors, outdoor black boards and hundreds of wood cookies. Please note: we have been inundated this year and cant take any more orders until after the new year (2024)

Marie Curie Hospice
Currently, we are repairing and refurbishing all the outdoor garden benches and tables. We hope to complete this work in the next few weeks.

Handyman Service
Our outdoor Handyman Service is currently taking bookings. Please call 07594915261 Tue-Wed-Thurs between 10-2pm to book. Please note; this service is heavily oversubscribed. In an effort to help as many people as possible we may have to limit the service to two cuts per season.

FREE Bike Maintenance 
Our FREE Bike Maintenance session in partnership with On Bikes and NG Homes HA takes place at our Men's Shed on a Saturday from 10am - 12 noon. To book your slot call 07967575327.  Please check our Facebook page for updates.

Petershill Allotment 2023
We have started work on our new allotment. Unfortunately, 3 of our 4 funding applications were unsuccessful. We are rejigging the plan to concentrate on building the Big Shed (social & learning space), a storage hut, raised planters and wide pathways as soon as possible.

Festive Period 2022/23
Our Men's Shed will be open our usual hours over the festive holiday period. For some, it's not the best time of year. Don't sit at home alone come to our Men's Shed for plenty of tea and biscuits and some 'Glesga Banter'.

2022 News & Projects

Christmas Lunch 2022
Thank you Lorraine McDonald, ASDA Community Champion, Bishopbriggs store. For our Christmas Lunch. You're our Christmas Star!

Dean's of Huntly, Shortbread Manufacturers
Thank you Dean's of Huntly for donating your delicious shortbread to our Men's Shed in recognition of our work for the community. It will keep us going over the festive period.

New Santa Sleigh for Robin House Childrens Hospice at Balloch.
We made a new Santa Sleigh for Robin House Childrens Hospice this year. The old one has been touring nursery and primary schools in the local area. We would like to thank B&Q Bishopbriggs, Crown Paints Possilpark, The Foam Centre Glasgow and Anne McDonald for helping us make this happen. (See photo's).

Free Santa Sleigh offer to local schools and nurseries
Our Santa Sleigh is now fully booked for the whole of December 2022, touring round local nursery and primary schools.

Hamiltonhill Nursery
Following recent vandalism at the nursery our band of brothers stepped in to clean up the site and make it safe for the little ones to get out to play again. (see photo's)

Cookery Classes with NGCFi
In Partnership with North Glasgow Community Food Initiative (NGCFi) we are resuming our popular Cookery Classes.

Woodturning Classes
Our new woodturning class is underway and the guys are producing some nice items.

St Martha's & Balornock PS
Currently we are working at St Martha's and Balornock PS removing soil from one school to the other. It's heavy work, but our Shedders are made of hard stuff!

Glasgow Kelvin College & Allied Vehicles
Thank you Glasgow Kelvin College & Allied Vehicles for donating timber off-cuts to our Men's Shed. We will recycle the material to make garden furniture, planters & kids toys.

SPMS Bike Hub
In Partnership with NG Homes, Freewheel North and Scottish Prison Service we are planning to open a new bike maintenance hub at our Men's Shed at Springburn Park. This service will open on Saturday mornings between 10-12pm by appointment only, details on how to book will follow shortly. Minor servicing and repairs will be carried out at the Men's Shed, major works will be taken in and the bike will be returned the following week.

SPMS Mural
In partnership with Toonspeak our Shedders have painted a Mural on the side of our workshop. It depicts the industrial heritage of Springburn and Springburn Winter Gardens, Stobhill Hospital, Marie Curie Hospice and some iconic Springburn landmarks.

Youth and Philanthropy Initiative (YPI) Scotland
We were delighted to be invited along to Springburn Academy's YPI event. We had a great afternoon chatting with the S2's who are genuinely interested in what's going on in their local community. Thank you S2 pupils for picking Springburn Park Men's Shed as your chosen charity.

Langa Street Nursery
We recycled more end-of-life scaffold boards and wooden pallets and built 4 raised planters and a mud kitchen for Langa St Nursery. (One of our Shedders attended the nursery over50 years ago).

Balornock PS Phase 2
We are building outdoor mud kitchens and planters, installing new outdoor play equipment and refurbishing their steel storage container.

Marie Curie Hospice, Springburn
Following the recent pandemic our Handyman Service will be returning to our local Marie Curie Hospice to repair or rebuild the damaged benches in time for summer. The Marie Curie staff have worked tirelessly, in very difficult circumstances, to look after the patients under their care. They deserve a nice outdoor space to sit and relax during their breaks.

WE NEED YOUR HELP! YOU CAN DONATE TIMBER OR PAINT NEEDED TO REPAIR THE GARDEN FURNITURE? PLEASE GET IN TOUCH IF YOU CAN HELP US!

Mosesfield Memorial Garden, Springburn Park
SPMS Handyman Service are working at the memorial gardens. We've been tidying the grounds and have started repairing the benches. Our shedders have been busy at our workshop recycling broken and unwanted wooden pallets to make small picket fencing for the memorial garden. If you have a memorial to a loved one pop in to the Men's Shed and we will give you some fencing or let us know where your memorial is located and we will do it for you.

Pyrography Class
If you're interested in learning pyrography pop in any Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday and ask for Gary.

Community Allotments
We are currently working in partnership with NG Homes and the local Chinese community to prepare a community allotment space at South Loch Street.

Northgate Church
We built new outdoor raised planters for their community allotment.

Springburn Community Hub
We are currently helping out at Springburn Community Hub.

Culture Collective Scotland
Currently, we are working in partnership with Toonspeak, Tron St Marys, BCDC and Spirit of Springburn on arts projects as part of the Culture Collective project culminating in an event to be held at Springburn Park later this year. This event took place on Saturday 6th August 2022. It was a fantastic day, the weather was perfect and an estimated 4,000 people attended over the course of the day. https://www.instagram.com/tv/CgB556UqeqC/?igshid=MDJmNzVkMjY=


2021 News & Projects

North Glasgow Community Food Initiative (Springburn Garden Allotments)
Our Handyman Service cut down the 8ft hedge around two of NGCFI allotment spaces at Springburn Garden Allotments. In return NGCFI supplied us the ingredients and taught 3 of our Shedders to make a variety of delicious Indian dishes for our Christmas Lunch at our Men's Shed. Thank you so much Sineadin, we are looking forward to more cookery classes in 2022!

Robin House Children's Hospice
We were contacted by Robin House Children's Hospice, Balloch and asked if we could build a Santa Sleigh for their Christmas Party. As usual our Shedders agreed to help and decided to open our Men's Shed an extra day to get started on the sleigh. Within a few days the main structure of the sleigh was built, we put a shout out for help with paint, upholstery foam and material to finish off the sleigh. As usual, the local community came through and we completed the sleigh in time. We delivered the sleigh to Santa at the Hospice in time for his arrival. Amazingly! our Santa sleigh Facebook post received over 25,000 views, 179 shares, 84 likes and lots of encouraging comments.
Please take 10 minutes to watch this video about Robin House Children's Hospice.

COP26
Working in partnership with NG Homes, we have just taken delivery of two 40 foot trailers filled with used timber and other items from COP26 event at SECC which would have otherwise gone to landfill. We will recycle / repurpose all of this timber. We also donated 20 tins of unused left over paint to Springburn Parish Church and one of our Shedders will be working there over the next few weeks giving the interior of the Church a nice fresh look just in time for the festive season.

HANDYMAN SERVICE
Recently we received funding from Glasgow City Council's Area Partnership towards setting up a local Handyman Service. We would also like to thank Allied Vehicles (Allied Mobility) for donating batteries to this project, and Freewheel North for the Rickshaws.

We intend to run an eco-friendly service by refurbishing two electric Rickshaws and building bespoke e-trailers for them. The vehicles and equipment will be recharged using solar power making it an entirely GREEN service! The electric vehicles will carry up to 3 of our Volunteers out into the local community to help local residents maintain their gardens, garden furniture, fences and gates.

Local residents will only be asked to pay for any materials used and our volunteers work free of charge. If you are a local resident who needs assistance or knows a neighbour who could do with a little help please get in touch.

Please Note! We only work on outdoors projects we do not enter anyones home to do internal house repairs. Please contact your Housing Association or Landlord for that service.

If you are male, over 18 yrs old and want to help by volunteering some of your free time to our HANDYMAN SERVICE please get in touch.
WE NEED YOUR HELP! If you're a Gardener or good DIYer and wold like to share your skills and knowledge please get in touch.

ADAPTIVE BIKES
SPMS are working in partnership with Freewheel North to adapt donated bicycles for use by physically challenged adults and children.

MARIE CURIE
We are looking forward to working with Marie Curie to help them maintain the garden furniture and gardens at the Springburn Hospice once Covid restrictions are lowered. In the meantime, our Shedders are busy making Bird Feeders and Bird Boxes for the gardens. The patients enjoy watching the birds, and cheeky squirrels, eating from the feeders.

NG HOMES
We are working with NG Homes to help maintain community allotment spaces in Springburn.

FASHION SHOW JULY 2021
We were approached by Divine Amy Tasinda in June to assist her in staging a Fashion Show at our Community Village, we were only to happy to help a local lass!
Divine attended Springburn Academy, now a successful choreographer and designer she wanted to put on a fashion show at the park she knew from her childhood. Springburn Park Men's Shed set about building a huge stage and catwalk from recycled materials donated to our Shed from BAM Construct UK who recently built a new hospital at Stobhill Mental Health Campus.
We extend our thanks to BAM once again, without whom we would have not been able to help Divine.
Pictures from the Fashion Show

Springburn Park Community Event "Make Something Better"
Springburn Park Men's Shed were one of several local groups who got together with NG Homes to host a fun day in Springburn Park, "Make Something Better". It was a celebration of the lockdown coming to an end and local community focused organisations getting back to helping our local residents. We facilitated site meetings and built another stage inside the community village. We assisted Glasgow Girls Club display their artwork at the village's outdoor classroom. It was an amazing day and the weather was perfect. Our Men's Shed received fantastic feedback from local residents, we really appreciated your kind words. Our thanks to NG Homes, in particular Margaret Fraser, Regeneration Director and Amy Rewcastle of Glasgow Girls Club who both did an amazing job organising this event in such a short timescale. Well done Ladies!

AED (DEFIBRILLATOR)
We are delighted to have received an AED from St Andrews First Aid through the Scottish Men's Shed Association. It's so important to have a life saving device 'on tap'. Our Trustees discussed the need for such a device to be located at our park some time ago and we have been actively trying to source one. We know that after someone as a heart attack every second counts and having an AED onsite could save the life of one of our Shedders or any other member of the public using Springburn Park. We have put up signage outside our Men's Shed and we hope, with the help of our local Councillors and GCC Parks Department, more signposting can be installed in Springburn Park to make all Park Users aware of it's location. Knowing this device is readily accessible gives reassurance should the worst happen.

Here's a link to the article in Glasgow Evening Times

Balornock Primary School
Currently our Handyman Service volunteers are working at Balornock Primary school. We are repairing and tidying up the outdoor planters, next we are also refurbishing their steel storage container -no mean feat! We're building outdoor play equipment for the P1's at our workshops. -We would like to thank the school's catering staff for providing us tea, coffee and biscuits, it's much appreciated! Pictures here

We've just received the best Christmas present EVER!   Due to current restrictions the pupils of Balornock PS couldn't attend our Men's Shed in person to sing us Christmas Carol's so they made us this fantastically festive video Link Here Just amazing. Thank you all!

Hawthorn Housing Co-operative
Our Handyman Service volunteers recently refurbished a Memorial Garden in Possilpark for Hawthorn Housing Co-operative

Allied Vehicles
A huge thank you once again to Allied Vehicles and Gemma of Allied PPE for donating 1,000 respirator masks to our Men's Shed. This will tide us over for quite a while! Allied Vehicles have given our Men's Shed fantastic support since we reopened after lockdown.


Ways you can support Springburn Park Men's Shed

Here's your chance to support Springburn Park Men's Shed and WIN up to £25,000 on the new Glasgow Community Lottery run by GCVS

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Thank You!