News - Scottish Men's Sheds Association

Petition: Scottish Men’s Sheds – Call for Men’s Health Support

The SMSA is reaching out to its members and the public to ask them to support its petition which will be sent to the First Minister for Scotland Nicola Sturgeon and Deputy First Minister for Scotland John Swinney. This is a call for action for the Scottish Government to reverse their decision to stop core funding of the national association and a proposed start-up and development fund for Scottish Men’s Sheds like our counterparts benefit from in Australia and Ireland. Please sign this very

Scottish Men’s Sheds team up with Scotmid on International Men’s Day

Leading Scottish community retailer Scotmid has teamed up with the Scottish Men’s Sheds Association (SMSA) to promote what Men’s Sheds have to offer and mark International Men’s Day this year in participating stores. International Men’s Day is a global holiday celebrated on the 19th November each year to showcase, recognise and celebrate the achievements of men. With over 200 open or developing Men’s Shed groups now across Scotland in all 32 local authority areas, Sheds were invited to sign up to

Men’s Sheds to ‘pop-up’ across Scotland at participating Scotmid stores on International Men’s Day

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

A Personal Story: Euan Martin

The SMSA chats to Euan Martin (61)—ironically, on the day he was building his very own man shed in his garden—about how his experience with Scottish Men’s Sheds and the SMSA inspired him to co-write the play ‘Man Shed’ which is currently showing at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Right Lines Productions—a writer-led production company based in Moray run by Euan and his writing partner, Dave Smith—is debuting its brand-new production ‘Man Shed’ as part of the Pleasance Theatre Trust’s Edinburgh National