SMSA Scottish Men’s Shed of the Year Award 2019 – Enter Now!

The 3 Shedders who created the SMSA Targe Shed of the Year Trophy.

SMSA Scottish Men’s Shed of the Year Award!

Will it be your Shed?

Tell us why your Shed deserves to be the Scottish Men’s Shed of the Year. What has your Shed done for your community, a man or group of you who have gone above and beyond…. challenges you have overcome. Don’t be shy, tell us all your good stuff.

Your entries will be considered by the SMSA board of Trustees and their decision will be final.
Your Shed or Developing Group needs to be a paid up SMSA Shed member to be able to apply.

First prize will be £500 and the 2 runners up £300 and £200 consecutively. This money is to be spent in the best way you see fit for helping keep your Shed sustainable.

We have a created a Scottish Targe as the trophy which will have a silver shield with the winning Shed attached to it and the winning Shed can proudly display it for the year in their Shed. Every year a new silver shield will be attached to the Targe creating a lineage of winners over the coming years.

Send your entries to : jason@scottishmsa.org.uk before Sunday 8th September midnight to qualify.

Winners announced at our AGM on the 11 September in the Carse of Gowrie Men’s Shed, Dundee.

Get your free tickets now – https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/meet-the-shedders-and-smsa-annual-general-meeting-2019-tickets-69304875749

SMSA Chairman Derek Keiller joined two pieces of mahogany, kindly supplied by the Carse of Gowrie Men’s Shed, from the sides of a 100 year old billiards table. The wood was then turned on his lathe into the targe. French polishing of 13 coats was kindly undertaken by Hamish Shepherd of Coupar Angus Men’s Shed. Derek then completed the wood burning on the edge, added the individually hand made iron nails round the border. The centre piece is made from Italian olive wood and the cap with the SMSA badge is inset into oak.

The multiple skills of these men, the generosity of materials and labour all embody the essence of the SMSA Men’s Shed of the Year Award – good luck!

Please share widely so everyone has a chance.

Photo: Derek Keiller (centre), Hamish Shepherd from Coupar Angus Shed who did the French polishing (right) and Nick Tindell from Carse of Gowrie Shed (left) who supplied the mahogany.

SMSA Annual General Meeting 2019

If you are a SMSA Member and/or a Shedder you are invited to an event we are holding at the wonderful and inspiring Carse of Gowrie Men’s Shed in Dundee.

The morning session will be an opportunity to hear from our partners and guest speakers about the benefits of the SMSA and Men’s Sheds.
The afternoon session we will be awarding the Scottish Men’s Shed of the Year award for the first time and our AGM.
New and old members we want to meet you and hear from you! We also hope we will have time to have a quick round robin update from all the Sheds attending.

Refreshments and lunch will be available at the event.

There are 250 tickets available, so if you are booking for the event please do make a day of it!

YOU MUST HAVE A TICKET TO ATTEND!
(click the link, ‘Get me My Ticket’ below.

As this is an Annual General Meeting single tickets need to be booked individually so we know who are members and who are not. If you are not already an individual member why not join before the day so you can vote and it’s free – www.scottishmsa.org.uk/join

All TICKETS are available FREE through EVENTBRITE – Get me My Ticket

We look forward to seeing and hearing you soon!

SMSA Shed Member / Axminster DISCOUNT Agreement!

Good news is we now have an agreement with Axminster for our paid up Shed members to get a 5% discount.

Once we issue our paid up Shed members the code and you apply, Axminster create a new account record for the applying Shed. To that account they assign a discount which entitles most purchases through the Shed to a discount. The discount is a 5% discount applied to most products.

There are a couple of exceptions to that; Power tools, generally that would be mean anything branded:
– Bosch
– Makita
– Festool
– DeWalt

Products that are already on promotion are also excluded from the discount.

The discount does include all of their own branded products and machinery.

Each account will be setup with the named person on the form and that person will need to be responsible for placing orders.

Effectively the discount is provided for the ‘Shed’ rather than the ‘Shedders’, but naturally so long as the Shed are happy to manage orders from the Shedders, then those orders can be placed through the Shed.

So make sure you follow up on the email sent to your Shed contact people today and get registered.

Scottish Men’s Sheds Association – Supporting and Inspiring Scottish Men’s Sheds – www.scottishmsa.org.uk

SMSA Scottish Men’s Shed of the Year Award!

Will it be your Shed? Tell us why your Shed deserves to be the Scottish Men’s Shed of the Year. What has your Shed done for your community, a man or group of you who have gone above and beyond…. challenges you have overcome. Don’t be shy, tell us all your good stuff.

Will it be your Shed?

Tell us why your Shed deserves to be the Scottish Men’s Shed of the Year. What has your Shed done for your community, a man or group of you who have gone above and beyond…. challenges you have overcome. Don’t be shy, tell us all your good stuff.