The Scottish Men’s Sheds Association (SMSA) has teamed up with Scotmid yet again to offer Scottish Men’s Sheds a promotional opportunity to mark International Men’s Day on Saturday 19th November 2022.
During Men’s Health Week 2022 back in June, the SMSA partnered with Scotmid to offer a full-day exhibition space to raise awareness of the Men’s Shed closest to the store and attract new Shed members. Following the success of this, the SMSA and Scotmid are repeating the opportunity for International Men’s Day and offering a ‘pop-up’ space (9.30am – 6.30pm) – to accommodate a 6ft table, banner and up to two Shed representatives – for the local Men’s Shed on Saturday 19th November 2022..
The participating stores on Saturday 19th November are:
| Scotmid Store | Address 2 | Address 3 | Post Code |
| 479 Old Edinburgh Road | Uddingston | Glasgow | G71 6BL |
| 3 Craigour Road | Torphins | Aberdeenshire | AB31 4HE |
| 1 Carriers Croft | Lewiston | Drumnadrochit | IV63 6AG |
| 1 Southfield Drive | Elgin | Moray | IV30 6GR |
| 6 Main Street | Balerno | Midlothian | EH14 7EH |
| Culloden Road | Balloch | Inverness | IV2 7HQ |
| 55 The Loan | South Queensferry | West Lothian | EH30 9SD |
| 114-116 Hunterfield Road | Gorebridge | Midlothian | EH23 4TX |
| 6 Mayfield Place | Mayfield | Midlothian | EH22 5JG |
| Unit 5-6 323 Hallhill Road | Barlanark | Glasgow | G33 4RJ |
| 6 Bath Street | Portobello | Edinburgh | EH15 1EY |
| 2 Carfin Street | New Stevenston | Motherwell | ML1 4JL |
| 44 Main Street | Holytown | Lanarkshire | ML1 4TH |
| 2 Main Street | Fauldhouse | Bathgate | EH47 9JA |
| 30-36 High Street | Carluke | Lanarkshire | ML8 4AJ |
| 25-27 High Street | Bonnybridge | FK4 1BZ | |
| 22-32 West Main Street | Armadale | EH48 3QA | |
| 22 Main Street | West Calder | West Lothian | EH55 8DR |
| 2A Sycamore Walk | Blackburn | West Lothian | EH47 7LH |
| 55-63 George Street | Coupar Angus | Perthshire | PH13 9DJ |
| 180-184 High Street | Prestonpans | EH32 9AZ | |
| 106A High Street | Laurencekirk | Aberdeenshire | AB30 1BJ |
| 45 High Street | Inverkeithing | Fife | KY11 1NL |
| 53/55 Station Road | Law | Carluke | ML8 5LN |
| 169 Stonefield Road | Blantyre | Glasgow | G72 9SD |
| 120 Auchinairn Road | Bishopbriggs | Glasgow | G64 1NQ |
| 129 King Street | Castle Douglas | DG7 1LZ |
Lynne Ogg, Scotmid Community Manager (North region), said: “We are delighted to partner with the Scottish Men’s Sheds Association again to raise awareness of the benefits of Men’s Sheds in our stores to mark International Men’s Day this year.”
Armadale Shed exhibited at their local Scotmid store in June, Secretary Jan Pateman said: “We would like to thank the SMSA for organising this awareness day in conjunction with Scotmid. It gave us an ideal opportunity to chat to members of the public about what the Shed Movement is all about and what we do for both the community and members of the public. It also showed us that many residents had never heard of our Shed despite being in existence for six years so it was also a good public relations exercise. We were also able to chat to members of the community who have used our services and were singing our praises so it is great to know that we must be doing something right.”
As Scotmid has a ‘Charity of the Year’ partnership already in place, Sheds will not have the opportunity to fundraise, however each Shed can display and take orders for their Sheds products on the day.